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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		  Gulf News 
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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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, IRNA – India 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)
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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)
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Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak answers questions during a press conference after the meeting with his Slovak counterpart Lubomir Galko in Bratislava, on Friday, Oct. 29, 2010. Israel says Iran 'drifting' toward nuke goal line The Boston Globe
President Barack Obama talks about the ongoing budget negotiations, Monday, July 11, 2011, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. Obama: Republicans will struggle to defend record Austin American Statesman
A police officer walks past an engine block of last Friday suicide bomber's vehicle by the wall of the state police headquarters in Kano, Nigeria, on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. The radical Islamist group Boko Haram were responsible for the attack. Nigeria's Boko Haram: Will dialogue end the insurgency? BBC News
Navy
INDIA-FISHERMAN Tn Fishermen attacked by Lankan navy Deccan Chronicle
The Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Nirmal Verma taking the salute, during his visit to DG, NCC Republic Day Camp-2012 in New Delhi on January 16, 2012. The DG, NCC, Lt. Gen. P.S. Bhalla is also seen. Nuke option only if attacked by n-weapons: Naval chief Indian Express
President Barack Obama speaks on the killing of US-born Imam Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, Friday, Sept. 30, 2011, during a 'Change of Office' ceremony at Ft. Myer in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) US dismisses Iran navy warning Irish Times
Air Force
An IAF Sukhoi SU-30 takes off at Aero India 2011. Crash-hit Sukhois get Indian Air Force chief's thumbs up Deccan Herald
New A109 Helicopter Training Simulator for Air Force New A109 Helicopter Training Simulator for Air Force Scoop
Different types of mobile phones found in Malaysia. Bangalore-based mid-tier firm, Kavveri Telecom Products, helps US air passengers access internet The Times of India
Intelligence
An official passes by a part of the facility of the phases 4 and 5 of South Pars gas field after the official opening by Iranian President Mohammad Khatami in Assalouyeh, southwestern Iran in the Persian gulf, Saturday April 16, 2005. Iran won't build nuclear weapon in 2012, says draft Isis report The Guardian
Beside a poster of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, mourners carry a flag draped coffin of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a chemistry expert and a director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, who was killed in a brazen daylight assassination when two assailants on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to his car Wednesday, in his funeral ceremony, on Friday, Jan. 13, 2012, in Tehran, Iran. From Palestinegate and Watergate to UNOgate WorldNews.com
President Barack Obama speaks from the White House briefing room, Sunday, July 31, 2011, in Washington, about a deal being reached to raise the debt limit. Iran slams EU oil embargo, warns could hit U.S. The Star
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