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File - This television image broadcast on Qatar's Al-Jazeera TV, is said to show the wedding of Mohammed bin Laden, center, the son of Osama bin Laden, seated at right.
Al Qaida   Libya   N Korea   Photos   Wikipedia: Death of Osama bin Laden		  The Los Angeles Times 
McManus: Even despots don't live forever
Sun 1 Jan 2012
It was a bad year for the villains of the world. Three of the biggest bad guys met their ends: Osama bin Laden, killed by U.S. commandos who stormed his villa in Pakistan in May; Moammar Kadafi,... (photo: AP / Al-Jazeera/TV)
A bullet-riddled windshield is seen during a government-organized media tour in the flashpoint city of Homs in central Syria, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2011.
Mideast   Photos   Protests   Syria   Wikipedia: 2011 Syrian uprising		  CNN 
Anti-government protesters rally in Syria
Fri 30 Dec 2011
December 30, 2011 -- Updated 1212 GMT (2012 HKT) 0 Cairo (CNN) -- Large-scale anti-government protests and more violence unfolded across Syria Friday, with opposition groups calling on demonstrators... (photo: AP / Bassem Tellawi)
Karzai Agrees to Let Taliban Set Up Office in Qatar  The New York Times  Wed 28 Dec 2011
Karzai Agrees to Let Taliban Set Up Office in Qatar
KABUL, Afghanistan — After prodding by his American and European backers, President Hamid Karzai dropped his opposition to allowing the Taliban to set up an office in the Persian Gulf state of... (photo: AP / Rafiq Maqbool)
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Pakistani President Asif AlI Zardari gestures as he speaks at a bilateral economic forum, at the Italian Foreign Ministry's headquarters in Rome, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2009.  Pakalert Press  Tue 27 Dec 2011
Pakistan turning away from bald eagle and towards red dragon
Share RT Pakistan is turning away from the US and looking east for its future partnerships, with the president now firming up the country’s friendship with China. Asif Ali Zardari hailed the... (photo: AP / Riccardo De Luca)
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An Iranian woman walks past an anti-US mural, painted on the wall of the former US Embassy in Tehran, Iran, at the side lines of an annual state-backed rally, on Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, marking the anniversary of the seizure of the US Embassy by militant students on Nov. 4, 1979. GlobalResearch Tue 27 Dec 2011
Red Lines and Ticking Clocks: U.S. War Plans Against Iran
Before the first bomb falls disinformation specialists prepare the ground. Leading media outlets, foreign policy journals and a plethora of think tanks funded by elite... (photo: AP / Vahid Salemi)
Iran   Photos   United States   War   Wikipedia: American military action against Iran
File - U.S. Air Force Airmen, assigned to the 432nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, put together an MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle after it returned from Afghanistan at Creech Air Force Base, Nev., May 19, 2008. The Daily Mail Sun 25 Dec 2011
CIA suspends drone flights in Pakistan to not 'worsen' relations after soldiers mistakenly killed in November
U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan for the last six weeks have been suspended Washington acknowledged Saturday following the killing of 24 Pakistani soldiers last month.... (photo: USAF / Senior Airman Larry E. Reid Jr.)
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, right, shakes hands with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2011. The Siasat Daily Fri 23 Dec 2011
US, Taliban deal breaks down
Friday, 23 December 2011 Print Email Pdf Washinton, December 23: The Obama administration, as part of an accelerated push toward anendgame in... (photo: AP / Musadeq Sadeq)
Afghanistan   Photos   Taliban   US   Wikipedia: Hamid Karzai
File - President Barack Obama and President Hu Jintao of China wait in the Green Room of the White House before their press conference in the East Room, Jan. 19, 2010. Al Jazeera Fri 23 Dec 2011
The eagle, the bear and the dragon
Let's celebrate the end of an eventful 2011 with a fable. Once upon a time in the young 21st century, the eagle, the bear and the dragon took their (furry) gloves off and... (photo: White House / Pete Souza)
China   Photos   Russia   US   Wikipedia: Geopolitics
File - An F-15E Strike Eagle roars into the sky Oct. 6, 2011, over Afghanistan. The Independent Fri 23 Dec 2011
US accepts some blame for Nato strike that killed Pakistani troops
While placing blame on both sides, the US report apparently accepts that American and Afghan commandos were wrong when they concluded there were no Pakistani troops in... (photo: USAF / Tech Sgt. Matthew Hecht)
Afghanistan   Nato   Pakistan   Photos   Wikipedia: 2011 NATO attack in Pakistan
Pakistani Prime Minister Raza Yousuf Gilani, center, gestures while talking to members of Pakistan's Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Jan. 7, 2011. The Australian Fri 23 Dec 2011
Military plotting against me, says Pakistan PM Gilani
PAKISTAN'S embattled Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said conspirators were plotting to bring down his government and delivered an unprecedented tirade against... (photo: AP / Fareed Khan)
South Asia   Pakistan   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Raza Yousuf Gilani


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A Cluster Bomb Unit containing more than 600 cluster bombs, that was dropped by Israeli warplanes during the 34-day long Hezbollah-Israeli war, sits in a field in the southern village of Ouazaiyeh, Lebanon, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2006. A top U.N. humanitarian What's the harm of cluster munitions? Al Jazeera
Noorullah, a 26-year-old soldier from the 7th Division of the Northern Alliance, waits with other members of the division to turn in the rifle that he has used for the last eight years to a U.N. disarmament facility Sunday, Jan. 11, 2004 about 20 kilometers (12 miles) southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan. The United Nations and the Afghan Defense Ministry are attempting to disarm nearly 100,000 members of former militias associated with the Northern Alliance and other groups, as it tries to build a viable national NATO-backed Afghan militia scheme seen expanded The Star
File - U.S. Army Sgt. Bruce Harrington (left), with the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team security force, stands guard at a proposed construction site in Kandahar, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, on July 14, 2011. Let Taliban share power, says key report The Independent
A Russian soldier observes from a tank at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Gori, northwest of the capital Tbilisi, Georgia, Friday, Aug. 15, 2008. Western leaders engaged in intense diplomacy Friday to persuade Russia to pull troops out of Georgia, but regional tensions soared after a top Russian general warned that Poland could face attack over its missile defense deal with the United Sta Why Moscow does not Trust Washington on Missile Defense GlobalResearch
The Capitol dome is seen at rear as Chinese and U.S. flags are displayed in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011, ahead of the arrival of China's President Hu Jintao for a state visit hosted by President Barack Obama. Will World War III Be Between The U.S. And China? Pakalert Press
Pakistani protesters rally to condemn a NATO airstrike on Pakistani troops, in Lahore, Pakistan, Sunday, Nov 27, 2011. U.S. launches probe into Pakistan border attack Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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2012 is a leap year Baltimore Sun
File - U.S. President Barack Obama visits Dec. 3, 2010, with a platoon of U.S. troops at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan that recently lost six members, Dec. 3, 2010. Obama signs defense bill despite 'reservations' Tulsa World
Britain's Guantánamo survivors are suffering a toxic legacy The Guardian
File - Women who fled due to violence walk past with their belongings, as they return home at Jos, Nigeria, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010. Emergency Declared in 4 Nigerian States The New York Times
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, center, inspects a guard of honor during his inauguration ceremony at the main parade ground in Nigeria's capital of Abuja, Sunday, May 29, 2011. Nigeria president declares state of emergency in parts of country after recent sect attacks Star Tribune
Some flurries this afternoon Baltimore Sun
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