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Dina may refer to:

• Sanskrit word meaning "day"
• Dina (video game console), game by Bit Corp
• Hebrew word meaning "judged"
• Dina (futsal club), Russian futsal club based in Moscow
• Dina, a genus of leeches, including Dina lineata

Places[link]

• The Massina Empire
• Village in India, where Guru Gobind Singh wrote Zafarnamah
• Dina, Pakistan, town of Jhelum District, Pakistan
• Dina Tehsil, tehsil of the Jhelum District

Persons[link]

• An English spelling variation of Dinah, a Hebrew name.
• Dina (musician), the stage name of Norwegian pop musician Caroline Dina Kongerud
• Dina (singer), a Portuguese singer and songwriter
• Dina Edling, Swedish opera singer
• Dina Lohan (born 1962), mother of Lindsay Lohan
• Dina Manzo, former star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey and star of HGTV's Dina's Party
• Dina Myftakhutdinova, Ukrainian rower
• Dina Wadia, daughter of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan
• Faradina Mohd. Nadzir, Malaysian Idol 2004 runner-up
• Dina Talaat Sayed Mohammed, famous Egyptian belly dancer.
• Dina Vinhofvers, the inspiration behind the play Dina by Adam Oehlenschläger (1842).
• Possible alternate name for the angel Jophiel

Acronym[link]

• Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA), the Chilean secret police under the Pinochet regime
• DINA S.A., Mexican truck and bus manufacturer

See also[link]

• Dinah (disambiguation)

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Dina Ali Fahad Al-Salim Al-Sabah (born February 28, 1974) is a professional figure competitor from Kuwait. She stands out from the rest of the Figure competitors for being the only female Arab athlete to achieve pro card status as of 2006; as well as the first female Arab athlete to ever stand on the Olympia stage. She is also the only IFBB athlete to have competed in both the Inaugural Figure Olympia in 2003 and the Inaugural Bikini Olympia in 2010.

Biography[link]

Al-Sabah was born in Beirut, Lebanon to a Kuwaiti father and a half Syrian and half Turkish mother.^[1] She was born as a member of the Al-Sabah family (she is close lineage because her grandfather was the son of Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah; ruler of Kuwait from 1917 to 1921) The Al-Sabahs have ruled Kuwait for over more than two centuries. Ms. Al-Sabah was raised in Egypt, Morocco, Italy and the United Kingdom, and because of this, she was exposed to many different cultures at a young age. A natural athlete, she started horse-back riding at the age of five. Dina Al-Sabah continued her active life style throughout her high school years competing in equestrian shows and participating in track, volleyball and basketball at The American School of Tangier in Morocco.

Due to her various travels, today Dina is fluent in English, Spanish, French, and Arabic. She also holds several degrees: B.S. in electrical engineering, M.S. in telecommunications and computers, and an MBA, all from the George Washington University in Washington, DC.

Dina Al-Sabah first started weight training when she moved to London in 1991. As a newcomer to the country, she did not have any friends and had plenty of free time so she decided to join a gym as a hobby. When Dina came to the United States in 1994 to continue her studies at the George Washington University, she took a more active interest in lifting weights and educating herself on weight training and nutrition.

Dina Al-Sabah started competing in 1999; she decided to try for the NPC Figure Nationals after winning the Monica Brant Fitness Classic in 2001. When trying to register for the nationals she found out that she had to be a United States citizen in order to be allowed to compete at any of the NPC pro qualifiers. Dina did some investigating and found out that the only way she could compete in the Pro Division of the IFBB was for her to have recommendation from the Kuwaiti national federation associated with the IFBB. Unfortunately due traditional Arab beliefs, women are not allowed to compete in any bodybuilding competitions and she was denied a recommendation. This did not discourage Ms. Al-Sabah, she decided to build her profile as a competitor in hopes that somebody would notice her potential. She won several popular NPC competitions in 2002 and brought her case to NPC president Jim Manion, and IFBB president Ben Weider. In November 2002 Dina Al-Sabah was granted an IFBB Pro card.

Soon Dina made a name for herself in the world of figure competitions, winning the 2003 Jan Tana Figure Championships and placing fifth at the inaugural Figure Olympia. These accomplishments have unfortunately come with their share of scrutiny from many conservative Arabs. Because of Ms. Al-Sabah's decision to compete and model, she has faced criticism, but the negative sentiments have been overshadowed by the many positive comments she has received from many Arab men and women globally.

Currently Dina Al-Sabah is continuing her career as a fitness model appearing in many fitness publications including Oxygen, Ironman, American Curves, Muscle and Fitness, Muscle Mag International and Flex. Ms. Al-Sabah is also the co-host for Living Beautiful Radio and a passionate promoter of issues dealing with female sexuality as well as a reviewer of adult products catering to women and couples.

Vital Stats[link]

• Full Name: Dina Al-Sabah
• Birthday: February 28
• Place of Birth: Beirut, Lebanon
• Current state of Residence: Nevada
• Occupation: IFBB Pro Figure Athlete, Fitness Model, Information Systems Consultant, and Radio Host
• Marital Status: Single
• Height: 5'5"
• Weight (Contest): 117-118 lbs. (Off-Season):123-125 lbs.
• Eye Color: Brown
• Hair Color: Brown

Bodybuilding philosophy[link]

Ms. Al-Sabah's training consists of simple compound movements with mostly free weights and a small number of cable and machine exercises. She focuses on her legs, back, and shoulders as primary areas. She typically trains with weights 5 days a week in the off-season (usually one or two body parts per day off-season, as well as in the pre-contest season). She also performs cardio four times a week for thirty minutes with each session, and up to twice a day for the pre-contest season.

Contest history[link]

• 1999 NGA Mount Rodgers Cup Novice 2nd
• 2000 NPC EastCoast Tournament of Champions (MW) 4th
• 2000 NPC BodyRock 2nd (LW), won the Best Poser Award
• 2001 NPC Monica Brant Fitness Classic 1st (Tall) and Overall
• 2001 NPC Jan Tana Figure 1st (Tall), and Overall
• 2001 NPC NorthEastern Figure Classic 3rd (Tall)
• 2002 NPC Pittsburgh Figure Championship 3rd (Tall)
• 2002 NPC Bev Francis Atlantic States Figure Championship 1st (Tall), and Overall
• 2002 NPC Debbie Kruck Figure Classic 1st (Tall), and Overall
• 2002 NPC NorthEast Figure Classic 1st (Tall), and Overall
• 2003 IFBB Pittsburgh Pro Figure 4th
• 2003 IFBB NOC Figure Championships 6th
• 2003 IFBB NY Pro Figure Championships 2nd
• 2003 IFBB Jan Tana Pro Figure 1st
• 2003 IFBB Miss Figure Olympia 5th
• 2003 IFBB GNC Show of Strength 3rd
• 2004 IFBB Figure International 7th
• 2004 IFBB GNC Show of Strength 14th
• 2004 IFBB Miss Figure Olympia 13th
• 2006 IFBB Tournament of Champions Pro Figure 9th
• 2006 IFBB Palm Beach Pro Figure 12th
• 2006 IFBB Sacrament Pro Figure 8th
• 2010 IFBB PBW Tampa Pro Bikini 6th
• 2010 IFBB Jacksonville Pro Championships 5th
• 2010 IFBB Tournament of Champions 5th
• 2010 IFBB Detroit Pro 3rd
• 2010 IFBB Bikini Olympia 10th

See also[link]

• List of female fitness & figure competitors

References[link]

• Wilkins, Rob (July 2003). "Sacrificing To Compete: An Interview with Dina Al-sabah". Bodybuilding.com. http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/rob6.htm. Retrieved 2007-01-21. 

• O'Connell, Jeff (August 2005). "Too hot to handle: Dina Al-Sabah's fat-torching cardio isn't the only thing causing a fitness firestorm". Muscle & Fitness. http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/rob6.htm. Retrieved 2007-01-22. 

External links[link]

• Official web site
• My Space Page
• bullz-eye Pictures and Interview
• AMG Interview
• Oxygen Cover Girl Exposed

Rob Sims

No. 67     Detroit Lions
Guard
Personal information
Date of birth: (1983-12-06) December 6, 1983 (age 28)
Place of birth: Macedonia, Ohio
Height: 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Weight: 312 lb (142 kg)
Career information
College: Ohio State
NFL Draft: 2006 / Round: 4 / Pick: 128
Debuted in 2006 for the Seattle Seahawks
Career history
Seattle Seahawks (2006–2009) Detroit Lions (2010–present)
Career NFL statistics as of Week 13, 2011
Games played 73 Games started 62 Stats at NFL.com

Robert Sims (born December 6, 1983) is an American football guard for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the fourth round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football at Ohio State.

Professional career[link]

Seattle Seahawks[link]

Sims was drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in the fourth round of the 2006 NFL Draft.

Detroit Lions[link]

On April 5, 2010, Sims was traded to the Detroit Lions for defensive end Robert Henderson. Detroit also sent a 5th Round pick for a 7th Round pick as part of the trade in the 2010 NFL Draft.

External links[link]

• Rob Sims on Twitter

Manuel Contreras
Manuel Contreras
Born	(1929-05-04) May 4, 1929 (age 83) Santiago, Chile
Alias(es)	Mamo Contreras
Penalty	Life imprisonment
Status	Imprisoned

Juan Manuel Guillermo Contreras Sepúlveda (born May 4, 1929) is a Chilean military officer and the former head of DINA, during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. As head of DINA he was the most powerful man in the country, after Pinochet. He is currently serving 25 life sentences for kidnapping, forced disappearance and assassination.^[1]

Operation Condor[link]

From 1973 to 1977, Contreras led the agency on an international hunt to track down and murder the political opponents of the dictatorship, particularly members of the Communist and Socialist Parties and the violent Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR). According to the report "CIA activities in Chile" released on September 19, 2000, the US government policy community approved CIA's contact with Contreras from 1974 to 1977 to accomplish the CIA's mission in Chile in spite of his role in human rights abuses. By 1975 American intelligence reporting had concluded that Contreras was the principal obstacle to a reasonable human rights policy within the Pinochet's government, but the CIA was directed to continue its relationship with Contreras, even giving Contreras a one-time payment in 1975.^[2][3] The CIA became concerned with Contrera's role in the assassination of former Salvador Allende cabinet member and ambassador to Washington Orlando Letelier and his American assistant, Ronni Karpen Moffit in Washington, DC, on September 21, 1976. The CIA gathered specific, detailed intelligence reporting concerning Contrera's involvement in ordering the Letelier assassination, but some of the material remains classified and another portion has been withheld at the request of the US Department of Justice (CIA, 2000) CIA contacts with Contreras continued until 1977.^[3]

After Orlando Letelier's assassination, tensions between Contreras and Pinochet grew over the course of his tenure, and the DINA was closed down in 1977 and replaced with a new apparatus, the National Intelligence Center (CNI). By 1979, Contreras was out of the army after a short time at the rank of General.

Prison sentences and court investigations[link]

In 1995, a Chilean court sentenced Contreras to seven years in prison for the Letelier assassination. Contreras first rebelled against the Chilean justice, taking refuge in the South, and then in a military regiment and later in a military hospital ^[4] After a two-months escape, he was detained again in a military prison, where he completed his sentence in January 2001. He was afterwards placed under house arrest and then released.

In May 2002, Contreras was convicted as the mastermind of the 1974 abduction and forced disappearance of Socialist Party leader Victor Olea Alegria. Contreras was also convicted by an Argentine court in connection with the assassination of former Chilean army chief Carlos Prats and his wife Sofía Cuthbert in Buenos Aires in 1974. However, an extradition request by Argentina was denied by Chile. On June 2008, he received two life sentences for the assassination of General Prats and his wife.

On January 28, 2005 Contreras was put in prison for the disappearance of tailor and MIR member Miguel Ángel Sandoval in 1975. The sentence time is 12 years.

On May 13, 2005, Contreras submitted to Chile's Supreme Court a 32-page document that claimed to list the whereabouts of about 580 people who disappeared during Pinochet's rule. Human rights groups immediately questioned the information and its source, citing Contreras's years of deception and denials of responsibility for human rights abuses. Many of the details he provided were previously known, and some contradicted the findings of commissions that have investigated the disappearances. In the document he wrote that Pinochet personally ordered these repressive measures.

During the same May 2005 hearing to the Supreme Court, Contreras directly involved the CIA and Cuban anti-Castrist terrorist Luis Posada Carriles in the 1976 assassination of Orlando Letelier.^[5]

Contreras has accused Augusto Pinochet of having given the order of the assassination of Orlando Letelier and of Carlos Prats. He also declared to Chilean justice in 2005 that the CNI, successor of DINA, handed out monthly payments between 1978 and 1990 to the persons who had worked with DINA agent Michael Townley in Chile, all members of Patria y Libertad, the far-right movement which had been involved in the Tanquetazo : Mariana Callejas (Townley's wife), Francisco Oyarzún, Gustavo Etchepare and Eugenio Berríos.^[6] Assassinated in 1995, Berrios, who worked as a chemist for the DINA in Colonia Dignidad, also worked with drug traffickers and DEA agents.^[7]

Judge Víctor Montiglio, who succeeded judge Juan Guzmán, granted amnesty to Contreras in 2005, after his conviction in operation Colombo.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Juan Manuel Guillermo CONTRERAS SEPULVEDA, Trial Watch Profile, TRIAL