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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., is surrounded by cameras as she talks to media after a campaign event in Dover, N.H. Monday, Jan. 7, 2008. (js1)
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 Khaleej Times 
Clinton urges Pakistan to fight Taliban
Sat 12 Dec 2009
NEW YORK – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that the United States strongly supports Pakistan at a 'critical juncture,' but acknowledged that a lack of trust is impeding cooperation. In... (photo: AP / Elise Amendola)
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, center, introduces U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, left, to NATO defense ministers at a conference in Brussels, Belgium, June 12, 2009. McChrystal is the new commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.
Defense   Iran   Iraq   Photos   World
 The Boston Globe 
Iran probably a target of significant sanctions, Gates says
Sat 12 Dec 2009
KIRKUK, Iraq - Defense Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday that world powers will soon impose "significant additional sanctions'' on Iran over its failure to engage in talks on its nuclear... (photo: USAF / Master Sgt. Jerry D. Morrison)
Former British Prime Minister and "Quartet" Middle East envoy Tony Blair  Khaleej Times  Sat 12 Dec 2009
Blair defends Iraq war, even without WMD
LONDON - Britain would have backed the invasion of Iraq even if it had been known that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), former British premier Tony Blair said Saturday. Blair,... (photo: AP / Gali Tibbon, Pool)
Britain   Iraq   London   Photos   incredibly
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates talks to the press during his visit to the U.S. Military Training Mission, Eskan Village, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 6, 2009. Secretary Gates is in Saudi Arabia to meet with local leaders and discuss defense issues with them. DOD photo by Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison(released)  The Siasat Daily  Sat 12 Dec 2009
Gates expects 'significant' new sanctions on Iran
Washington, December 11: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday that he expects "significant" new sanctions to be imposed on Iran over its controversial nuclear programme. "I think that you... (photo: US DoD / Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison)
Defence   Gates   Iran   Photos   Washington
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Lebanese Prime Minister designate Saad Hariri, speaks to journalists at the Presidential palace, in Baabda east of Beirut, Lebanon, on Saturday June 27, 2009. The Siasat Daily Sat 12 Dec 2009
Lebanon cabinet lands parliament's vote of confidence
Beirut, December 11: Lebanon's parliament on Thursday granted Prime Minister Saad Hariri's government its vote of confidence by an overwhelming majority. Hariri's... (photo: AP / Ahmad Omar)
Beirut   Lebanon   Parliament   Photos   Vote
Aminatou Haidar, a western Sahara independence activist who has been on a hunger strike for three weeks, speaks during a news conference at the airport in Lanzarote, Spain, on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009. BBC News Sat 12 Dec 2009
Spain may return Saharan activist to Morocco
Spain has not ruled out the option of sending a Western Sahara independence activist on hunger strike in the country back to Moroccan territory. Aminatou Haidar, 42, has... (photo: AP / Carlos Moreno)
Haidar   Photos   Rights   Sahara   Spain
 Britain´s Prime Minister Tony Blair, speaking after he toured a new scientific project known as the Diamond, in Chilton, England Thursday Nov. 2, 2006. The Diamond is a powerful microscope that uses electrons to generate what is known as synchrotro BBC News Sat 12 Dec 2009
Removal of Saddam Hussein 'right', says Tony Blair

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Tony Blair says faith gave him strength to make tough decisions. (Clip courtesy of Fern Britton Meets...... (photo: (AP /Alastair Grant, Pool))
Blair   Iraq   Photos   UK   War
 Pakistan is claiming it has dealt Al-Qaeda a crushing blow after the killing of a top official said to have masterminded two attempts on President Pervez Musharraf´s life.  sa1 Al Jazeera Sat 12 Dec 2009
Al-Qaeda leader 'killed' in US raid
A US drone attack in northwest Pakistan has killed a senior al-Qaeda leader, a US  government official has said. Saleh al-Somali, the man in charge of... (photo: WN)
Asia   Leader   Pakistan   Photos   Terrorism
An Iranian flag is seen in front of the U.S. Capitol as Pro-democracy demonstrators opposed to the current Iranian government march from the Capitol to the White House in Washington, Saturday, July 11, 2009. Wall Street Journal Sat 12 Dec 2009
U.S. Freezes $2 Billion in Iran Case

By JAY SOLOMON WASHINGTON -- More than $2 billion allegedly held on behalf of Iran in Citigroup Inc. accounts were secretly ordered frozen last year by a federal court in... (photo: AP / Gerald Herbert)
Iran   Nuclear   Photos   Sanctions   US
Attorney Arthur Folsom, uses his brief case to block the view of photographers as he and his client Najibullah Zazi, right, leave Folsom's office to go meet with the FBI in Denver where Zazi was being question for the second day on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009. Wall Street Journal Sat 12 Dec 2009
Arrests Raise Fears of American Jihad

By EVAN PEREZ U.S. counterterrorism officials say 2009 has turned into the year of homegrown jihad, with the unmasking of the most serious suspected terror plots... (photo: AP / Ed Andrieski)
Intelligence   Islam   Photos   Terrorism   US
Film director Kathryn Bigelow after a showing of her film The Hurt Locker, 2009 Seattle International Film Festival. The Boston Globe Sat 12 Dec 2009
AP critics Germain, Lemire pick top films of 2009
The top 10 films of 2009, according to AP Movie Writer David Germain: 1. "The Hurt Locker" -- The first great Iraq war film proves so universal that it can stand among... (photo: GFDL / Jmabel)
Classic   Film   Iraq   Photos   Star
Former British prime minister Tony Blair, now the Middle East envoy for the so-called Quartet peacemakers, speaks at a meeting of the French ruling conservative party, the Union for a Popular Movement party (UMP), Saturday, Jan. 12, 2008 in Paris. Blair was invited on Saturday by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to deliver a speech before some 2,000 party members The Daily Mail Sat 12 Dec 2009
Tony Blair: WMDs or not, I'd have gone to war with Iraq just to oust Saddam
Tony Blair has confessed he would have gone to war in Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein even if he had known there were no weapons of mass destruction there. In remarks that... (photo: AP / Thibault Camus)
Blair   Iraq   Photos   War
A demonstrator reacts as police follow the rear end of a demonstration in Copenhagen Friday Dec. 11, 2009. Al Jazeera Sat 12 Dec 2009
Arrests ahead of Copenhagen protest

Dozens of demonstrators have been arrested a day before a planned protest expected to draw thousands of people, on the sidelines of the UN climate talks in... (photo: AP / Peter Dejong)
Climate Change   Environment   Photos   Police   Protest


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