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  • A man walks through roadblocks made by residents in the Tajoura district of eastern Tripoli, Libya, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011. Residents there have blocked many streets with roadblocks after protesters demanding Moammar Gadhafi's ouster came under a hail of bullets Friday when pro-regime militiamen opened fire to stop the first significant anti-government marches in days in the Libyan capital. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

    Armed pro-Gadhafi gangs roll in Libyan capital

    The embattled Libyan regime passed out guns to civilian supporters, set up checkpoints Saturday and sent armed patrols roving the terrorized capital to try to maintain control of Moammar Gadhafi's stronghold and quash dissent as rebels consolidate control elsewhere in the North African nation.


  • Security forces, emergency responders and civilians stand near a destroyed building after a car-bomb attack in Kirkuk, Iraq, 180 miles north of Baghdad, on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2011. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)

    Bombs kill 7 in ethnically tense Iraqi city

    A suicide bomber posing as a dairy deliveryman struck a Kurdish security headquarters Wednesday, setting off a series of rapid-fire attacks against the oil-rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk that killed seven and wounded up to 80 people.


  • A bomb detonates on a street in Kirkuk, Iraq, on Wednesday as security forces and emergency vehicles pass along the main road on their way to attend the scene of another explosion. Car bombs ripped through the oil-rich Iraqi city killing at least six and wounding some 35 others. (Associated Press)

    Suicide bomber, other blasts kill 7, hurt scores in Iraq

    A suicide bomber posing as a dairy deliveryman struck a Kurdish security headquarters Wednesday, setting off a series of rapid-fire attacks against the oil-rich Iraqi city of Kirkuk that killed seven and wounded up to 80 people.


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  • London bomb plot suspect has day in court

    LONDON — Impassive and staring straight ahead, a British-born Iraqi doctor was led into court by plainclothes security officers yesterday, the first suspect to appear on charges of plotting to bomb London's entertainment district and Scotland's busiest airport.


  • Baggage handler John Smeaton helped police struggling with suspects and said he "got a kick in" on the men who drove a Jeep Cherokee into Glasgow's Airport and set it on fire.

    Glasgow attack aimed to be suicide mission

    GLASGOW, Scotland — When two doctors crashed a Jeep Cherokee into Glasgow's Airport and then set it on fire in a desperate attempt to ignite crude bombs, it was clear to a policeman on the scene that they were on a suicide mission.


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