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• Name: ZABIUDDIN, Sayyad,
  
• Title: possible suspect in Bombay-India commuter train bombings that killed at least 200 persons; authorities Anti-Terror Squad also identified Zulfeqar FAYYAZ as a possible suspect

• Name: ZACCARDELLI, Giuliano,
  
• Title: Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; former Assistant Commissioner; promoted to Deputy Commissioner-1998 responsible for National Headquarters

• Name: ZADROGA, James,
  
• Title: 34-yoa New York Police Department detective; first person to have died from a cause "directly related" to smoldering debris of Ground Zero after 9/11; wasted away and died of respiratory failure

• Name: ZAHAR, Mahmud,
  
• Title: Palestinian Hamas leader Gaza Strip; announced a halt to Gaza-based attacks on Israel

• Name: ZAHAR, Mahmud,
  
• Title: Palestinian Hamas leader Gaza Strip; announced a halt to Gaza-based attacks on Israel

• Name: ZAID, Abu,
  
• Title: Iraqi al Qaeda terrorist leader and aide to Abu Musab ZARQAWI; killed by coalition forces; letter written by ZAID revealed "desperate situation" for al Qaeda in northern Iraq

• Name: ZAID, Mark,
  
• Title: attorney for Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and Navy Capt. Scott PHILLPOTT Able Danger operatives; his clients identified 911 ringleader Mohamed ATTA and three other hijackers as al Qaeda members in early 2000; Bill CLINTON*S assistant attorney general Jamie GORELICK disallow sharing of information between Pentagon and FBI

• Name: ZAINI, Zakaria,
  
• Title: 38-yoa Malaysian engineer alleged to be one of three men al-Qaeda preparing to attack Los Angeles U.S. Bank Tower (tallest in Los Angeles) formerly called “Library Tower”; Khalid Shaikh MOHAMMED apparently revealed the plot during interrogations in Pakistan; also implicated in attacks: Zacarias MOUSSAOUI - now in U.S. custody and Abderraouf JDEY who is still at large

• Name: ZAKUT, Rabah,
  
• Title: Hamas terrorist killed by Israeli missle

• Name: ZAMAN, Waheed,
  
• Title: 21-yoa London21-yoa London-England man of Pakistani origan; alleged al Qaeda terrorist; one of nineteen arrested in plotting to use liquid explosives in sports drink cans to become suicide bombers to take down 6 to 10 airliners; targets thought to be United Airlines - Continental Airlines and American Airlines were specifically which fly from London to the America (August 2006); also arrested: Abdula Ahmed ALI; Cossor ALI; Nabeel HUSSAIN; Tanvir HUSSAIN; Umair HUSSAIN; Umar ISLAM; Waseem KAYANI; Assan Abdullah KHAN; Waheed Arafat KHAN; Osman Adam KHATIB; Abdul Muneem PATEL; Tayib RAUF; Muhammed Usman SADDIQUE; Assad SARWAR; Ibrahim SAVANT; Amin Asmin TARIQ; Shamin Mohammed UDDIN; ZAMAN; (born: Don STEWART-WHYTE in England)

• Name: ZAMORANO, Manuel,
  
• Title: Chairman, Committee to Save Merry Christmas

• Name: ZANDER, Edward, J.
  
• Title: CEO Motorola Inc.

• Name: ZANDI, Mark,
  
• Title: chief economist at Economy.com; economy forecasting firm

• Name: ZANDI, Salah,
  
• Title: American/Kurd supports Iraq constitution because it*s “first document that recognizes the ethnic and cultural rights of Kurds”

• Name: ZANEY, Jay,
  
• Title: U.S. federal district Judge Jay; stopped seizure of firearms from New Orleans citizens after suit by two Second Amendment rights groups; second group-National Rifle Association

• Name: ZANNINO, Richard,
  
• Title: CEO Dow Jones & Co.

• Name: ZANUCK, Darryl, F.
  
• Title: film producer "Alexander*s Ragtime Band" "How Green Was My Valley" "The Razor*s Edge" "All About Eve" "The King and I"; founder 20th Century Films/20th Century Fox Studios

• Name: ZANUCK, Richard, Darryl
  
• Title: film producer "Jaws" "Neighbors" "Drive Miss Daisy" "Deep Impact" "Planet of the Apes"

• Name: ZAPATA, Jose, Williams
  
• Title: Chief Commander Peru*s human rights groups says military is resisting prosecution of suspected military abuses giving rise to resurgence of “Shining Path insurgency”

• Name: ZAPATERO, Rodriquez,
  
• Title: Prime Minister, Spain

• Name: ZAPPA, Frank, Vincent
  
• Title: singer/songwriter "Valley Girl"

• Name: ZAPPI, Sylvia,
  
• Title: French author “Ni Putes ni Soumises” or "Neither Whores Nor Doormats"; book: co-authored with Fadela AMARA - French author/activists against honor killing of women in the Islamic society

• Name: ZARATE, Jonathan, A.
  
• Title: accused of stabbing and dismembering 18-year-old neighbor: Jennifer PARKS; ZARATE his brother and another teen attempted to dump a steamer trunk containing PARKS* body from a bridge into the Passaic River; county prosecutor Michael M. RUBBINACCIO

• Name: ZAX, Stanley, R.
  
• Title: COB Zenith Ins. Co. Woodland Hills CA

• Name: ZAYED, , Mohammed
  
• Title: Mohsen Yahya

• Name: ZEBARI, Hoshyar,
  
• Title: Iraq Interim Foreign Minister

• Name: ZEDILLO, Ernesto,
  
• Title: former president of Mexico and director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization; claims US isn*t doing enough to head off nuclear terrorism

• Name: ZEIFMAN, Jerrome,
  
• Title: Democrat former chief counsel to House Judiciary Committee; claimed Senator Edward M. KENNEDY D-Massachusetts disgraced himself and Democrats by misusing his position on Senate Judiciary Committee for self-serving partisan ends in US Supreme Court confirmations hearings of Judge Samuel ALITO

• Name: ZELIOTIS, George,
  
• Title: Canadian who challenged his right to buy private health insurance; Canadian Supreme Court ruled that citizens do not have a right to buy private health insurance "Chaoulli v. Quebec"

• Name: ZELLWEGER, Renee,
  
• Title: American actress "Bridget Jones*s Diary" "Chicago" "Cold Mountain"; Academy Award best support actress

• Name: ZEMIN, Jiang,
  
• Title: former Chairman State Military Commission China

• Name: ZENAWI, Meles,
  
• Title: Prime Minister Ethiopia

• Name: ZENG, Qinghong,
  
• Title: vice president China in charge of the party organizational affairs Communist Party;

• Name: ZERHOUNI, Elias, A.
  
• Title: director National Institutes of Health; said discovery of Helicobacter pylori by Dr. J. Robin WARREN and Dr. Barry J. MARSHALL is a example of excellent science over conventional dogma

• Name: ZERKIN, Gerald,
  
• Title: defense attorney for al Qaeda terrortist Zacarias MOUSSAOUI in his sentencing trial; prosecutor David NOVAK

• Name: ZETA-JONES, Catherine,
  
• Title: actress "Titanic" "Entrapment" "Chicago" "The Terminal"; Academy Award; 1-nomination Academy Award; 2-Golden Globe Award nominations

• Name: ZETSCHE, Dieter,
  
• Title: president/CEO USA DaimlerChrysler group

• Name: ZETSCHE, Gisela,
  
• Title: Chrysler CEO*s spouse; faces accusations of hosting parties allowing underage drinking in Bloomfield Township-Michigan

• Name: ZEVON, Warren,
  
• Title: singer/songwriter "Werewolves of London"

• Name: ZHANG, Rongliang,
  
• Title: Chinese Christian religious leader arrested in crackdown by Communist government

• Name: ZHAO, Yan,
  
• Title: Chinese journalist working for the New York Times; charged with exposing state secrets by Chinese authorities for detailing rivalry between China*s outgoing Communist Party leader - JIANG Zemin - and new leader HU Jintao

• Name: ZHENG, Xiaoyus,
  
• Title: former director of Chinese Food and Drug Administration from 1997 to 2006; executed for approving fake medicine in exchange for cash; execution said to be Beijing*s effort to demonstrate safeguards for food at 2008 summers Olympic Games; one antibiotic caused the deaths of at least 10 people; report claim drug-makers used falsified documents to apply for approvals

• Name: ZHIRIONVSKY, Vladimir,
  
• Title: President, Russian Liberal Democrat Party, accused of accepting money from Saddam Hussein

• Name: ZHOU, Xiaochuan,
  
• Title: governor of the People*s Bank of China

• Name: ZHU, Chenghu,
  
• Title: Major General China; punished by China*s military for telling reporters China could use nuclear weapons in potential conflict with U.S. attack over Taiwan

• Name: ZIDANE, Zinedine,
  
• Title: France soccer team captain head-butted Italy soccer player Marco MATERAZZI knocking him down in losing effort during world cup 2006 in Germany; incident caused international incident; MATERAZZI allegedly called ZIDANE a "dirty terrorist"

• Name: ZIMBA, Lyonpo, Yeshey
  
• Title: Chairman of the Council of Minister, Bhutan

• Name: ZIMBALIST JR., Efrem,
  
• Title: actor, "77 Sunset Strip" "The F.B.I.Story" "Zorro"

• Name: ZINN, Ray,
  
• Title: CEO Micrel Semiconductor

• Name: ZINNI, Anthony,
  
• Title: USA Army General/former CENTCOM Commander Iraq; called for Defense Secretary Donald RUMSFELD to resign; made decision for USS Cole to refuel at the port of Aden-Yemen; where al Qaeda suicide bombers detonated small boat filled explosives against the hull killing 17 US sailors

• Name: ZIRKLE, Wade,
  
• Title: Vets Executive Director for Freedom (largest American nonpartisan organization representing the veterans of the global war on terror); called Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Rahm EMANUEL (DCCC) and DCCC*s use of “images of fallen American [soldiers] to raise money and score political points is reprehensible and absolutely shameful"

• Name: ZITO, Leonard,
  
• Title: Judge, Northampton Co, PA, ruled that stealing identities for financial gain, was a form of employment for illegal aliens.

• Name: ZITZEWITZ, Andreas, von
  
• Title: manager at German semi-conductors company Infineon

• Name: ZOELLICK, Robert,
  
• Title: USA Deputy Secretary of State; WTO USA Representative

• Name: ZOGBY, John,
  
• Title: Political Pollster

• Name: ZUBAIR, Abu, “The Bear”
  
• Title: Saudi Arabia senior al-Qaida recruiter/operative commander; killed by Iraqi security forces in Mosul-Iraq (aka: Fowzi Saad al-Obeidi; Mohammed Salah Sultan; Zouhair Hilal Mohamed Tabiti)

• Name: ZUCKER, Jeff,
  
• Title: president NBC

• Name: ZUCKER, Jeff,
  
• Title: NBC/Universal TV Group chairman

• Name: ZUCKER, Jerry,
  
• Title: film producer/director/democrat contributor; Films: "Airplane!" “Top Secret!” “Ruthless People” “Ghost” which was nominated for Academy Award for best picture “Rat Race”; co-directs with brother David ZUCKER and Jim ABRAHAMS

• Name: ZUCKER, Jerry,
  
• Title: American/Israeli president/CEO InterTech Group; acquired Hudson*s Bay Company - North America*s oldest company; former President/CEO Polymer Group that acquired the Dominion Textile Company of Montreal; part owner South Carolina Stingrays-East Coast Hockey League; ranked #346 on Forbes 400 Richest Americans and #746 on Forbes Billionaire List 2006

• Name: ZUCKER, Jerry,
  
• Title: film producer/director/democrat contributor; Films: "Airplane!" “Top Secret!” “Ruthless People” “Ghost” which was nominated for Academy Award for best picture “Rat Race”; co-directs with brother David ZUCKER and Jim ABRAHAMS

• Name: ZUCKER, Jerry,
  
• Title: American/Israeli president/CEO InterTech Group; acquired Hudson*s Bay Company - North America*s oldest company; former President/CEO Polymer Group that acquired the Dominion Textile Company of Montreal; part owner South Carolina Stingrays-East Coast Hockey League; ranked #346 on Forbes 400 Richest Americans and #746 on Forbes Billionaire List 2006

• Name: ZUMA, Jacob,
  
• Title: South African former deputy president; accused of raping woman half his age

• Name: ZUNDEL, Ernst,
  
• Title: German, whom Canada is attempting to deport. for alleged white supremacist activities

• Name: ZUREK, Richard,
  
• Title: project scientist Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter most powerful spacecraft ever to arrive at Mars for two-year examination of planet in low orbit; scheduled to monitor Martian climate and atmosphere; search for signs of ancient water on the surface; examine potential future landing sites; Project manager Jim GRAF said: "Orbiter will rewrite the science textbooks on Mars"

• Name: ZUROFF DR., Efraim,
  
• Title: director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center-Jerusalem; Muslim reaction to cartoon depictions of Prophet Mohammed shows Muslims think they are "holier" than the rest of the world

• Name: ZWEIG, Martin,
  
• Title: Author, hedge-fund manager, purchuser of $70M New York Penthouse

• Name: ZYWICKI, Todd,
  
• Title: Dartmouth alumni elected college board of trustees against the desires of the school*s administration; attempting to stop implementation of new alumni association constitution restricting election of trustees; T.J.RODGERS - Peter ROBINSON - two other dissidents elected to trustees board