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Israel warplanes attack Gaza target after rockets: witnesses (Reuters)

November 19th, 2010

An Israeli woman is reflected in an American flag which is hung inside a bulldozer at a construction site in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Givat Zeev near Jerusalem November 18, 2010. REUTERS/Baz RatnerReuters - Israeli warplanes raided at least two targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday, Palestinian witnesses and Hamas officials said.


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Is Germany Europe’s Next Terror Target? (Time.com)

November 19th, 2010

Time.com - Germany has so far been spared an al-Qaeda-inspired terror attack. But with a suspicious parcel found on a Munich-bound plane and authorities announcing that an attack is imminent,…

Al Qaeda denies plot to target Muslim pilgrims (Reuters)

November 14th, 2010

Reuters - Yemen-based al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula denied on Sunday it would stage any action to coincide with the Muslim haj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia after a Saudi…

New wave of parcel bombs target Athens embassies (Reuters)

November 2nd, 2010

Investigators arrive at the Swiss Embassy in Athens after a bomb alert November 2, 2010. REUTERS/Yiorgos KarahalisReuters - Bombs exploded at the Swiss and Russian embassies in Athens on Tuesday and police found suspect packages at two other embassies in the latest wave of parcel bomb…

Next US target: The birthplace of the Taliban (AP)

August 22nd, 2010

Afghan Army soldiers, pictured at Forward Operating Base Howz-e-Madad, operated jointly by the Afghan Army's 1st Battalion of the 3rd Brigade and the U.S. Army 2- 502 Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, in Zhari district, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010. The 101st Airborne's 2-502 and their Afghan Army partners operate in a district which, as the birthplace of the Taliban movement, continues to hold many well-armed fighters, and a support network which provides the fighters with improvised explosives and safe havens. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - As Lt. Col. Peter N. Benchoff prepares for an assault next month into the birthplace of the Taliban, he doesn’t sugarcoat the hurdles his troops face in this…

Sarkozy threatens immigrants who target police (AP)

July 30th, 2010

French President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech in Grenoble, French Alps, Friday, July 30, 2010. Nicolas Sarkozy came in Grenoble to install the new prefect after confrontations between youths and policemen, which came after a local resident suspected in the armed robbery of a casino was killed while fleeing police. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)AP - President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday that he wants to revoke the French citizenship of immigrants who put the lives of police officers in danger as part of a…

Authorities target ‘barefoot bandit’ in Bahamas (AP)

July 7th, 2010

FILE - This July 2009 file self-portrait provided by the Island County Sheriff's Office shows Colton Harris-Moore, the so-called 'Barefoot Bandit'.  Police were hunting across a tourist island Tuesday July 6, 2010 for signs of a pilot who vanished after wrecking a small plane in the Bahamas and investigators in the U.S. turned their suspicions toward an American teenager on the run dubbed 'the Barefoot Bandit.' The single-engine Cessna that crashed in shallow waters off Abaco island was apparently stolen from an airport in Bloomington, Indiana. By the time rescuers arrived on Sunday, nobody was inside. (AP Photo/Island County Sheriff's Office via The Herald)  NO SALESAP - A teenage thief who police say has brazenly made his way across the U.S. has apparently graduated to international fugitive, crash-landing a stolen plane and disappearing into the small…

Iran Revolutionary Guard elusive sanctions target (AP)

June 10th, 2010

FILE- In this  Sept. 11, 2007 file photo, Iranian Revolutionary Guard commanders chant slogans during their meeting with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, not pictured, in Tehran, Iran. Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard is now in the cross-hairs of U.N. sanctions, but it also represents an elusive target that is highly skilled in tactics used for decades by Tehran to bypass economic roadblocks, analysts and experts say. (AP Photo/ISNA, Rouhollah Vahdati)AP - Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard is now in the cross-hairs of U.N. penalties over Tehran’s nuclear program, and it’s an elusive target — a master at the sanctions-busting strategies…

Condemnation, protests target Israel after raid (AP)

May 31st, 2010

Riot police surround pro-Palestinian Turks protesting against Israel, at the entrance of Israeli ambassador's residence in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, May 31, 2010. The Israeli military says more than 10 pro-Palestinian activists have been killed after attacking naval commandos who were halting an aid flotilla heading toward the blockaded Gaza Strip.The army says the soldiers were attacked with knives and clubs as they boarded the six vessels Monday.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)AP - Turkey withdrew its ambassador to Israel and called for an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council as condemnations erupted across Europe and the Arab world Monday over…

Jordan says it was target of Russian-made missile (AP)

April 22nd, 2010

AP - A Russian-designed missile struck a refrigerated warehouse in Jordan’s Red Sea port of Aqaba, the Jordanian information minister said Thursday.

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