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Some Wars Never End
Iraqi soldiers carry coffins bearing remains of fellow Iraqi soldiers during a ceremony at the Iraq-Iran Shalamcha Border Crossing, in south...
Codes For Armageddon: A New President To Hold Nuclear Launch 'Football'
(Photo from Time Magazine ) From the Baltimore Sun: WASHINGTON - It is a simple transfer of immense power. On Jan. 20, an unobtrusive milita...
Mumbai Attacks: 300 Feared Dead As Full Horror Of The Terrorist Attacks Emerges
A member of a rescue team covers a room of the Taj Mahal hotel Photo: GETTY From The Telegraph: The death toll in the Mumbai terror attack ...
Georgia And Ukraine Split NATO Members
From The International Herald Tribune: PARIS: NATO foreign ministers gather this week in Brussels, with the United States and Germany quarre...
Claims Of Secret Arms Sales Rattle Ukraine’s Leaders
President Viktor A. Yushchenko of Ukraine at a ceremony in Kiev this month remembering victims of famine in the 1930s. Sergey Dolzhenko/Euro...
Vicious Drug Turf War Turns Mexican Border Town Of Tijuana Into A Killing Zone
Mexico's drug war death tally is more than 4,000 this year - 685 in Tijuana Photo: AP From The Telegraph: The four men in bulletproof ...
Mugabe Regime Arrests Soldiers Amid Fears Of Pay Revolt
Robert Mugabe is said to be fearful of an army revolt after soldiers went on the rampage in Harare, unable to withdraw money from banks in t...
The Misery Of Zimbabwe
A victim of the political repression in Zimbabwe (Photo from Times Online ) Land of Broken Trust -- Washington Post Though Widespread Bruta...
At War Level: India Raises Security Status Amid Grief
Indian soldiers (Photo from Military Photos ) From The Guardian: Fallout from Mumbai attacks jeopardises south Asian peace process The India...
How U.S. Military Contractors Get The Business
"If they can't characterize what's going on in Iraq in an honest fashion, we can't begin to address the problem," said...
Pakistan Warns Of Threat To Terror War
From The Financial Times: Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan’s president, on Sunday warned that escalating tensions between Pakistan and India would...
Report Sounds Alarm Over Bioterror
From The Washington Post: Bipartisan Study Finds Insufficient Laboratory Safeguards, Loose Regulation Seven years after the 2001 anthrax att...
Pakistan Moves Army From Terror Front To India Border
Pakistani army troops move toward the area of Dara Adam Khel, near Peshawar, Pakistan, in an operation against militants. A new GAO report c...
Owners Of Pirated Ukrainian Freighter Reach Deal On Ransom
In this photo released by the U.S. Navy on Monday, Nov. 10, 2008, the crew of the hijacked merchant vessel MV Faina stand on the deck after ...
Steadfast, Mumbai Begins Picking Up The Pieces
Mourners gather for a memorial to pay tribute to Indian police officers who lost their lives in the recent attacks in Mumbai, India, Sunday ...
Obama's Strong-Willed National Security Team
THE TEAM: No longer a rival, Clinton and Obama hold similar positions on many issues. Gates, center, is admired by the Obama team despite si...
Officials: Obama Set To Introduce Clinton Monday
President-elect Barack Obama pauses as he speaks with the media at a food bank in Chicago, November 26, 2008. (John Gress/Reuters) From Yaho...
Calm 'Returning Slowly To Nigerian City After Clashes'
A map of Nigeria showing the location of the central Nigerian city of Jos. There were no violent incidents Sunday in Jos, a Nigerian army sp...
Indians Claim Terrorists Took Orders From Pakistan
Security staff stand guard during an exchange of fire between the police and terrorists. Photograph: Harish Tyagi/EPA (Image from The Guardi...
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Lessons from Memsahib Brady Nirvana
Only a small group of determined monsters created the carnage... And perhaps the most troubling question to emerge for the Indian authoriti...
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This Day in History: November 30
Cape Ann is a very open Harbour and accessible to large Ships, which made me immediately send off, Col: Glover and Mr. Palfrey , with order...
Joint Chiefs Chairman 'Very Positive' After Meeting With Obama
Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Photo Navy Times /Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley /...
First pictures of burned-out rooms inside Mumbai terror siege hotel
Cover: Soldiers in sniper positions as a gun battle rages inside the Taj Mahal Hotel From The Daily Mail: The first pictures of burned-out r...
Citigroup Says Gold Could Rise Above $2,000 Next Year As World Unravels
An employee of Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K. displays a gold bar at the company's store in Tokyo. Photo: Reuters From The Telegraph: Go...
Mumbai Attacks: First Look Inside The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel
Security services survey a destroyed room inside Photo: GETTY From The Telegraph: The Sunday Telegraph witnessed the scene of carnage insid...
'Pak May Relocate 100,000 Army Personnel To Border'
From Rediff India Abroad: Pakistan may relocate around 100,000 military personnel from its restive border area with Afghanistan if there is ...
Mumbai Attacks: India Raises Security Footing To 'War Level'
Indian soldiers stand guard at the Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai on November 29, 2008. The attacks on Mumbai have again highlighted the lack of ...
Blackwater Gunboats Will Protect Ships
From The Independent: The American security company Blackwater is planning to cash in on the rising threat of piracy on the high seas by lau...
Mumbai Photographer: I Wish I'd Had A Gun, Not A Camera. Armed police Would Not Fire Back
A gunman walks at the Chatrapathi Sivaji Terminal railway station in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008. Teams of gunmen stormed luxury...
51 Protesters Wounded In Thailand Explosions
Bangkok Police gather in formation near a checkpoint Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008, at Suvarnabhumi in Bangkok. Demonstrators with the People's ...
India Security Chief Resigns After Mumbai Attacks
In this July 27, 2008 file photo, Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil poses for photographs after addressing the media in New Delhi, India. P...
Mumbai Attacks: 300 Feared Dead As Full Horror Of The Terrorist Attacks Emerges
The landmark 565-room Taj Mahal hotel is seen after dawn in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008. Indian commandos killed the last remaini...
Russia's New Nuclear Missile
RS-24 missile Missile Launch Russia To Deploy Missile To Counter US Missile Shield Next Year -- The Telegraph Russia will, from December 200...
Commandos Entered Dark Hotel Filled With Bodies, Gunfire
A commando in disguise give details of what went down in the Taj hotel when commandos went in. From CNN: MUMBAI, India (CNN) -- Inside the b...
Hundreds Dead In Clashes In Nigerian City: Witnesses
From Yahoo News/AFP: LAGOS (AFP) – Hundreds were killed and thousands forced to flee their homes in the central Nigerian city of Jos when Ch...
The Plan Wast To Kill 5000
Destroyed: The charred interior of the the Taj Mahal hotel after the terrorists were finally stopped 'I Was Told To Kill To My Last Bre...
Many Democrats Do Not Support Robert Gates As U.S. Defense Secretary
U.S. Secretary Of Defense Robert Gates Liberals Angry Over Obama Keeping Gates as Pentagon Chief -- FOX News President-elect Obama's exp...
Recriminations Are Now Starting In India On The Failure To Stop The Mumbai Attacks
Indian soldiers take cover on the water front as they surround the Taj Mahal hotel during gun battles between Indian military and militants ...
Mexico's Drug Wars
A Mexican federal officer examines the scene where a woman was killed and a police investigator was critically injured during a midday shoot...
Arrested Terrorist Says Gang Hoped To Get Away
Media persons run for cover during a gun battle at Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai November 29, 2008. Operations to dislodge militants at the Taj ...
US Training Iraqis To Defeat Deadly Roadside Bombs
An instructor talks about various explosive devices during a for bomb disposal training for the Iraqi security forces at a Besmaya range com...
Attack On Mumbai -- I Want To Live: Captured Terrorist Azam
Azam Amir Kasav, only surviving terrorist. From Economic Times Of India: MUMBAI: His swaggering image as he walked around Chhatrapati Shivaj...
Under-Fire Saakashvili Defends Georgia War
Bodyguards escort the Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, to shelter from the threat of a Russian air attack in Gori in August 2008. Se...
India Terror Begins With Corpses On Train Platform
The burning funeral pyres of victims who died in the attacks in Mumbai, India, Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008. Indian commandos killed the last rem...
Ethiopia To Pull Its Troops From Somalia By End Of The Year
Ethiopian soldiers in Mogadishu, Somalia, guard a cache of ammunitions they said were used by insurgents during two days of heavy fighting. ...
Scene Of Unimaginable Carnage Inside Taj Majal Hotel
Nov. 27, 2008: The Taj Majal hotel has became a symbol of the terrorist attacks on Mumbai because of the gunmen who holed up inside so long,...
100,000 Stranded In Thailand After Airports Shut
Stranded Western tourists wait for transportation Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008, at Bangkok, Thailand's Suvarnabhumi airport following a take...
India, Pakistan Simmer Over Mumbai Attacks
Indian army soldiers take position during a gun battle at the Taj Mahal hotel (seen in the background) in Mumbai, November 29, 2008. REUTERS...
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