In November 2001, Taliban, Al-Qaeda combatants and ISI operatives were safely evacuated from Kunduz on Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas in what has been dubbed the " Airlift of Evil " Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf wrote in his memoirs that Richard Armitage, the former US deputy secretary of state, said Pakistan would be " bombed back to the stone-age " if it continued to support the Taliban, although Armitage has since denied using the " stone age " phrase.

The Ten Kingdoms: Wu ( 907-937 ), Wuyue ( 907-978 ), Min ( 909-945 ), Chu ( 907-951 ), Southern Han ( 917-971 ), Former Shu ( 907-925 ), Later Shu ( 934-965 ), Jingnan ( 924-963 ), Southern Tang ( 937-975 ), Northern Han ( 951-979 ).

Former MLB players and coaches have also coached or managed in the Northern League including Terry Bevington, " Dirty " Al Gallagher, Jackie Hernández, Danny Jackson, Maury Wills, Tim Johnson, Ron Kittle, Hal Lanier, Darryl Motley, Matt Nokes, and Wayne Terwilliger.

The northern Tiefu branch of the Xiongnu gained control of the Inner Mongolian region in the 10 years between the conquest of the Tuoba Xianbei state of Dai by the Former Qin empire in 376, and its restoration in 386 as the Northern Wei.

Former members of the Northern Alliance remained extremely influential, most notably Vice President Mohammed Fahim, who also served as the Defense Minister.

* Gerry Mullan – Former Glentoran, Everton and Northern Ireland footballer.

Over the next century or so Shandong changed hands several times, falling to the Later Zhao, then Former Yan, then Former Qin, then Later Yan, then Southern Yan, then the Liu Song Dynasty, and finally the Northern Wei Dynasty, the first of the Northern Dynasties during the Northern and Southern Dynasties Period.

Former Youth Orchestra conductors include Lloyd Butler, a lecturer and conductor of music at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio, ( 2005 – 2009 ) and Dr. Edwin L. Williams, former chair of the music department at Ohio Northern.

File: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe in Slaton, TX IMG 0169. JPG | Former Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe tracks, now part of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railway passing through Slaton.

Former Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader John Bruton said FitzGerald would ; stand out as a man who changed Ireland and that he had changed attitudes to in the Republic to Northern Ireland and to Europe and that he saw that Ireland could do best in Europe if it contributed creatively to goals and ambitions of other members.

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* Former Social Democratic and Labour Party minister in Northern Ireland and deputy SDLP leader, Bríd Rodgers

* Baron Mason of Barnsley, ( 1924 – present ) Former Northern Ireland Secretary.

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Former church, Old Northern Road

The Han Zhao (; 304-329 ), or Former Zhao, or Northern Han ( 北漢 ), was a Southern Xiongnu state during Sixteen Kingdoms period coeval with the Chinese Jin Dynasty ( 265-420 ).

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9 in Northern Ireland, 10 in the Former Republic of Yugoslavia, 5 in Iraq and 15 in Afghanistan.

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Former players include Blair Mayne DSO, Phil Matthews and Nigel Carr, all former Ireland and British Lions players.

* Former Manchester United and Ireland midfielder, Roy Keane became an Aldeburgh resident in 2009 following his appointment as manager of Ipswich Town.

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Category: Former countries in Ireland

Former Ireland manager Mick McCarthy took over at the club, and, in 2005, he took Sunderland up as champions for the third time in less than ten years.

Former manager of the Republic of Ireland national football team

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* Former Ireland and British and Irish Lions rugby captain Willie John McBride is a resident of the town.

* Former all Ireland Decathlon champion and Commonwealth Games athlete Hill McNeill still lives on the Ballycorr road, Ballyclare ;( as of Jan 2012 ).

* Former Northern Ireland international footballer Billy Hamilton.

Former UN high commissioner for human rights and Ireland President Mary Robinson refused to head the mission because she " felt strongly that the Council ’ s resolution was one-sided and did not permit a balanced approach to determining the situation on the ground.

Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and ex-president of Ireland Mary Robinson was also highly critical, in an article published in The Irish Times.

Former Northern Ireland international and AFC Telford United manager Bernard McNally was appointed caretaker manager while the club searched for a new manager.

Former " red-on-white " Tesco Ireland logo, used for advertising until early 2009

Former Lisburn Distillery boss Paul Kirk, former Crusaders and Ballymena United boss Roy Walker, former Cliftonville boss Eddie Patterson, and former Coleraine boss Marty Quinn were among the possible contenders for the job including former player Pat McGibbon and Ian Foster.

* 1978 – Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.

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In the 1994 edition, the name of the entry was changed to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, as it is officially recognised by the United Nations ( awaiting for the resolution of the Macedonia naming dispute ).

Former Compaq headquarters, now the Hewlett-Packard United States campus

Former Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali served as Secretary General of the United Nations from 1991 to 1996.

* 1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison.

Former presidents of the United States, while holding no legitimate power, continue to exert great influence in national and world affairs.

Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf send more troops against the United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan | United Front of Ahmad Shah Massoud than the Afghan Taliban.

The International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991, more commonly referred to as the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia or ICTY, is a body of the United Nations established to prosecute serious crimes committed during the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and to try their perpetrators.

* 2008 – Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all charges by a United Nations Tribunal accusing him of war crimes.

* 1961 – Former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba is murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the governments of Belgium and the United States.

* 1804 – Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies a day after being shot in a duel.

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* 2002 – Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.

* 1966 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.

Image: Margaret Thatcher awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom. jpg | Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George H. W. Bush in 1991

Image: Blair MOF. jpg | Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush on January 13, 2009

Former President Fujimori ’ s tainted re-election to a third term in June 2000 strained Peru's relations with the United States and with many Latin American and European countries, but relations improved with the installation of an interim government in November 2000 and the inauguration of Alejandro Toledo in July 2001 after free and fair elections.

Category: Former Roman Catholic universities and colleges in the United States

Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said that it is " time to set aside debates on so-called ' state terrorism '.

Former United States President John Quincy Adams, who at the time represented Massachusetts in Congress, backed Michigan's claim.

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Former United States Navy Commander Matthew Maury, who served as a commander in the Confederate Navy, worked on the development of an underwater electrical mine.