Godane,who came to power after the death of al-Shabab founder Aden Hashi Ayro in a U.S.missile strike in May 2008, is firmly committed to the idea of using al-Qaida-trained foreign fighters to help al-Shabab violently overthrow Somalia's U.N.-backed transitional government and establish an Islamic caliphate in Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

The site was launched to the public last September by a start-up company led by its twenty-six year old founder.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

The native of Puerto Rico is a founder of one of New York City's oldest poetry centers -- The Nuyorican Poets Caf.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

She was also a founder of the union known as the Industrial Workers of the World.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Co-founder Sid Kromenhoek says it is a place where students can show their abilities and talents.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

Ian Bancroft is the co-founder of TransConflict, a humanitarian organization working in the western Balkans.

VOA: special.2010.07.24

He says Ayman al-Zawahri -- a surgeon -- is the real founder of al-Qaida.

VOA: special.2011.05.07

Imam Zaid Shakir is a professor and co-founder of Zaytuna.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

Its founder,Annabel Park, is a documentary film maker.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

He was a co-founder of the Nuyorican.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

Martin Fisher -- a co-founder of the non-profit KickStart -- demonstrates the technology on the rooftop of his San Francisco office.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

It started in 1999 with a single Sunday, and then expanded to a weekend, says founder David Levinson.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

Emergency founder Gino Strada denounced the detentions of the aid group's three workers, calling it a mafia-style attempt to silence a witness.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

Stuart Levy,a co-founder of Olive Branch D.C., a Washington-based interfaith group bringing together young professional Jews and Muslims.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

Simon Rosenberg is president and founder of the New Democrat Network, a center-left political organization based in Washington.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

In May 2008,a U.S.missile killed the founder of al-Shabab, Aden Hashi Ayro, at his home in Dhusamareb.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

He is co-founder of Rumah Cemara, a drug rehabilitation center in the Indonesian city of Bandung.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

In 1862,Founder Dupre Barbancourt developed a recipe using a distillation process similar to cognac.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

Agha Saeed,a California State University political scientist and founder of the Pakistan American National Alliance, an organization of six Pakistani-American groups, called the planned demonstration sha defining moment for Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

The only one present to hear the sentence was Melaku Tefera, an organizer for the opposition Unity for Democracy and Justice Party, whose founder Birtukan Mideksa is serving a life term in connection with the 2005 violence.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

Roger Smith,a co-founder of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, says many Turks refuse to use the word 'genocide.' "I worked with some Turkish scholars and these are people who would be considered liberals and so on - but even they really kind of shy away from using the word 'genocide.' They will talk about massacres - you lay all of these things out and they say yeah,yeah,yeah, this happened,okay - well no,I don't want to use that word.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19