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Israel raises alert level after overseas attacks (AP)

Police officers stand around an Israeli diplomat's car that was damaged in an explosion in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012.  Indian investigators were searching Tuesday for the motorcycle assailant who attached a bomb to an Israeli diplomatic car in the heart of New Delhi in an attack the Jewish state blamed on Iran or its proxies.(AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)AP – Police heightened their state of alert throughout Israel on Tuesday following bomb attacks on diplomats in India and Georgia. Officials were also trying to determine whether Israelis were the intended target of an Iranian man carrying explosives who blew his own legs off in Bangkok.


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Lawmakers: Stop insider attacks by Afghan troops (AP)

FILE - Afghan policemen walk ahead of the U.S. soldiers with the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) during a foot patrol in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, in this Jan. 7, 2012 file photo. In testimony prepared for delivery Wednesday Feb. 1, 2012 to the House Armed Services Committee, defense officials said that in most cases the Afghans acted out of personal motivation and were not controlled or directed by insurgent groups. The second most common circumstances involved insurgents impersonating or infiltrating Afghan security forces. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan, File)AP – Lawmakers are telling the U.S. military to do more to screen Afghan security forces to prevent those supposedly friendly troops from killing Americans fighting alongside them.


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Attacks by Afghans on US troops often personal (AP)

FILE - Afghan policemen walk ahead of the U.S. soldiers with the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) during a foot patrol in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, in this Jan. 7, 2012 file photo. In testimony prepared for delivery Wednesday Feb. 1, 2012 to the House Armed Services Committee, defense officials said that in most cases the Afghans acted out of personal motivation and were not controlled or directed by insurgent groups. The second most common circumstances involved insurgents impersonating or infiltrating Afghan security forces. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan, File)AP – Supposedly friendly Afghan security forces have attacked U.S. and coalition troops 45 times since May 2007, U.S. officials say, for the first time laying out details and analysis of attacks that have killed 70 and wounded 110.


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Front-runner Romney fends off SC debate attacks (AP)

Republican presidential candidates former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich talk during a commercial break in the South Carolina Republican presidential candidate debate Monday, Jan. 16, 2012, in Myrtle Beach, S.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman)AP – Under heavy debate pressure from his rivals, Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney defended his record as a venture capitalist, insisted he bears no responsibility for attack ads aired by his allies and grudgingly said in campaign debate Monday night he might release his income tax returns this spring.


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Gingrich tempers Romney attacks in South Carolina (AP)

Republican presidential candidate former, House Speaker Newt Gingrich walks to his bus after a rally for home ownership, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012, at the State Capitol in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP – Under pressure from some in his own party, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Thursday tempered his public attacks on front-runner Mitt Romney while defending his right to question the former Massachusetts governor’s business record.


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Romney defends business record in face of attacks (AP)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney  is greeted by a crowd after a campaign stop at the Opera House, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012 in Rochester, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)AP – Presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Sunday defended his time in private business and insisted he understands the country’s tough economic times because he once feared losing his job.


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Attacks targeting Shiites kill 72 in Iraq (AP)

Hana Abbas Lazim, 11, grieves at the hospital for her slain father was killed in a bomb attack in Sadr City eastern of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012. Wave of explosions struck two Shiite neighborhoods on Thursday, killing and injuring dozens of Iraqis, police said, and intensifying fears that insurgents are stepping up attacks after the U.S. troop withdrawal that was completed last month. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP – A wave of bombings targeting Shiites in Iraq killed 72 people on Thursday, deepening sectarian tensions that exploded just after the last American troops left the country in mid-December.


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