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Children gather around a burntout police truck following an overnight attack at Sheka Police station in Kano, Nigeria, on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012.
Nigeria   Photos   Politics   Terrorism   Wikipedia: Boko Haram
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Nigeria faces an existential threat
Fri 27 Jan 2012
London: Nigeria is up against a hydra-headed monster in the Boko Haram sect that claimed responsibility for last Friday's devastating attacks on the city of Kano. The group began its existence in... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba)
People clean the scene of a car bomb attack in Zafaraniyah, Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 27, 2012.
Iraq   Mideast   Photos   Terrorism   Wikipedia: Iraq under U.S. Military Occupation
 Jakarta Globe 
Shiites in Firing Line as Dozens Killed at Iraq Funeral March
Fri 27 Jan 2012
A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car near a funeral procession in southeastern Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 32 people in the latest brazen attack since the US troop withdrawal,... (photo: AP / Khalid Mohammed)
Governor of Jammu and Kashmir N N Vohra  - India- Politics  Kashmir Observer  Fri 27 Jan 2012
Vohra Calls for Vigil on Frontiers
Jammu, Jan 27: Jammu and Kashmir Governor, N. N. Vohra, Thursday said that “adversary elements” operating from across the borders had not given up their “malicious resolve to disturb and destabilise... (photo: WN / Imran Nissar)
India   Jammu   Kashmir   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Kashmir
Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta speaks to Sailors in the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65).  GlobalResearch  Fri 27 Jan 2012
Panetta: Military Spending Is Going Up
On Thursday, Leon Panetta held a press conference announcing what he called "cuts" to military spending. The first question following his remarks pointed out that the "cuts" are to dream... (photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Scott Pittman)
Budget   Military   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Leon Panetta
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Five planes in arrow formation fly over Raj path during the 63rd Republic Day Parade-2012, in New Delhi on January 26, 2012. The Times of India Fri 27 Jan 2012
India flexes nuclear muscle on R-Day
SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet NEW DELHI: It was bright and sunny as the nation put up on display its military might, its nuclear arsenal along with its cultural diversity on... (photo: PIB of India)
Defence   Delhi   India   Photos   Wikipedia: Republic Day (India)
100914-F-6350L-496       U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division walk out to a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft prior to a parachute drop during a joint forcible entry exercise at Pope Air Force Base, N.C., on Sept. 14, 2010.  A joint forcible entry training event is held six times a year in order to enhance cohesiveness between the Air Force and the Army.  DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Angelita M. Lawrence, U.S. Air Force.  (Released) Jakarta Globe Fri 27 Jan 2012
US military to cut troop numbers, invest in future
The Pentagon proposed taking some 100,000 troops off active duty as the debt-ridden United States winds down a decade of war, but vowed new investments to exert power in... (photo: AP / Staff Sgt. Angelita M. Lawrence, U.S. Air Force)
Budget   Pentagon   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Military budget of the United States
A Libyan rebel carrying a parachute flare shell left behind by pro-Gadhafi forces, walks by a rebels pickup truck armed with a rocket launcher with a pre Gadhafi flag and Arabic that reads "February 17th, Free Libya" at the western gate of Ajdabiya, Libya Wednesday, April 13, 2011. The Star Fri 27 Jan 2012
Arms from Libya could reach Boko Haram, al Qaeda - U.N.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The Libyan civil war may have given militant groups in Africa's Sahel region like Boko Haram and al Qaeda access to large weapons caches,... (photo: AP / Nasser Nasser)
Al Qaeda   Arms   Libya   Photos   Wikipedia: Aftermath of the 2011 Libyan civil war
A view of saluting dais of the 63rd Republic Day Parade-2012, at Rajpath, in New Delhi on January 26, 2012. Irna Thu 26 Jan 2012
India celebrates its 63rd Republic Day with patriotic fervour: Report
New Delhi, Jan 26, IRNAIndia on Thursday celebrated its 63rd Republic Day with impressive display of armour and unmanned aerial vehicles recently added to India's... (photo: PIB of India)
Delhi   India   Military   Photos   Wikipedia: Republic Day (India)
President Barack Obama delivers the State of the Union address in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan. 24, 2012. WorldNews.com Thu 26 Jan 2012
The 'Malaise' of Hope
Before Dante Alighieri descended into hell in the "Divine Comedy," an inscription above the door read: Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here. Listening to President Barack... (photo: White House / Chuck Kennedy)
Defence   Photos   Politics   US   Wikipedia: American imperialism
Gulf of Maine (Aug. 23)--An entangled Humpback whale breechesduring a successful rescue in the Gulf of Maine.  U.S. Coast Guard crews and Bob Bowman, from the Center for Coastal Studies, freed the whale after it became tangled in a lobster trap.  USCG photo by PA3 BRENT M. ERB (110503) ( SEARCH AND RESCUE (FOR RELEASE) ) STL Today Thu 26 Jan 2012
Groups sue over Navy sonar use off Northwest coast
Conservationists and Native American tribes are suing over the Navy's expanded use of sonar in training exercises off the Washington, Oregon and California coasts, saying... (photo: US Coastguard / PA3 BRENT M. ERB)
Animal   Navy   Photos   Whale   Wikipedia: Whale


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