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 Pakistani police officers escort to Rashid Rauf, center, a British Muslim of Pakistani origin  (js1)
Afghanistan   Pakistan   Photos   Qaeda   UK
 Denver Post 
Terrorism suspect reported killed in attack
Supporters of a Pakistani opposition party chant slogans during a rally to condemn the U.S. missile strikes in country's tribal areas today in Peshawar, Pakistan. (Associated Press) ISLAMABAD,... (photo: AP / Anjum Naveed)
 Saudi Arabia´s King Abdullah said he did not believe there would be a civil war in Iraq-WN/Bero Amer
Afghanistan   Photos   Saudi Arabia   UN   US
 The Star 
Saudi Arabia offers asylum to Omar-German weekly
BERLIN (Reuters) - King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has offered political asylum to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, German weekly Der Spiegel reported on Saturday. The offer had been pushed by U.S.... (photo: WN/Bero Amer)
 David Miliband  Newsday 
UK's foreign secretary: Iran is biggest world threat, thanks to risks of its nuclear program
LONDON (AP) _ Britain's foreign policy chief said Friday that Iran continues to pose the most serious threat to the world, warning that Tehran's suspected pursuit of nuclear weapons risks an arms race... (photo: AP / Hidajet Delic)
Egypt   Iran   Nuclear   Photos   Saudi Arabia   UK
Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, right, alongside Peru's President Alan Garcia, second right, receive military honors after his arrival at the presidential palace in Lima, Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. Rudd is on a one-day official visit to Peru to attend the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC, summit  Inquirer 
Apec body: Rebuilding confidence needed

LIMA, Peru—An advisory group has called on 21 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) leaders to 'seize the opportunity and respond to the global economic crisis by charting a course that would set... (photo: AP / Martin Mejia)
APEC   Asia   Economy   Photos
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 President George W. Bush delivers remarks on Iraq at the Cincinnati Museum Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, Monday night, Oct. 7, 2002. (gm1) Chicago Sun-Times
Bush effigy erected where Saddam statue once stood
BAGHDAD -- A towering statue of Saddam Hussein. A giant effigy of George W. Bush. Two targets, one central square in Baghdad. It was Saddam in 2003, but on Friday it was... (photo: White House file)
Baghdad   Parliament   Photos   Politics   President
 Transitional Federal Government soldiers on their truck in Bur Haqaba, 60 kilometers (37 miles) south of Baidoa, Somalia Thursday, Dec 28, 2006. Residents living south of Mogadishu said they saw convoys of Islamists driving south toward the port city of Canada Dot Com
Islamists hunt pirates behind tanker hijack
MOGADISHU - Dozens of Somali Islamist insurgents stormed a port on Friday hunting the pirates behind the seizure of a Saudi supertanker that was the world's biggest... (photo: AP/Guy Calaf/pool)
Africa   Islamists   Mogadishu   Photos   Piracy   Somalia
 Citigroup, buildings, terrorist target, 53 street and Lexington Ave, New York (CB1) International Herald Tribune
Citigroup tries to halt plunge in share price

: For months, the largest U.S. banks have struggled to regain investors' trust. In the center of the vortex is Citigroup, whose precipitous stock-market plunge... (photo: WN/CB1)
Business   Market   Photos   Stock   US
Yousuf Raza Gilani Dawn
PM, army chief discuss security situation
ISLAMABAD, Nov 21: Army Chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani called on Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza... (photo: AP / Anjum Naveed)
Islamabad   Pakistan   Photos   Politics   Security
081117-N-1082Z-054 SOMALIA (Nov. 17, 2008) - Pirates holding Tian Yu 8 pass through the waters off of Somalia while under observation by a U.S Navy Ship in the 5th Fleet  AOR.  The ship was attacked on Nov. 16. U.S. 5th Fleet conducts maritime security operations to promote stability and regional economic prosperity. Houston Chronicle
PIRACY CRACKDOWN

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA - A radical Islamic group in Somalia said Friday it will fight the pirates holding a Saudi supertanker loaded with $100 million worth of crude oil.... (photo: U.S. Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jason R. Zalasky)
Photos   Piracy   Qaeda   Shipping   Somalia
Ongoing cleanup operation of old Soviet hardware, discarded junk aircraft pieces, appears to be an AI-20M turboprop engine, and trash, draw the attention of Afghan civilians under the watchful eye of security from the 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, at Kandahar Airport, Afghanistan. The Independent
Kabul 30 years ago, and Kabul today. Have we learned nothing?

I sit on the rooftop of the old Central Hotel - pharaonic-decorated elevator, unspeakable apple juice, sublime green tea, and armed Tajik guards at the front door - and... (photo: US DoD)
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