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Pakistan has many problems. The rising might of the militants, an economy in bad shape and maddening power cuts! Protesters angry at the frequent 'load-shedding' broke window panes. Zardari and co better wake up fast!
Images:
Reuters
Traders protest against power-cuts in Multan
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Argentine soldiers 'free' the Falklands islands.
Image Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sinks after being torpedoed. Falklands islands are a group of islands that lie off the coast of Argentina. It belongs to Britain. But Argentina too had claims on it. In 1982 the military government of the country occupied it to divert attention from the mess it had created at home.
Britain reacted immediately. PM Margaret Thatcher send British forces to free the islands.
The war did not last long. The Argentine army was no match to the powerful British flotilla.
The Argentine army surrendered.
Image
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The advancing Sri Lankan army got a bloody nose in the battle for Kilinochchi.
Rajapaksa is determined to finish off the LTTE militarily. The LTTE is using Tamil political parties in India to lean on Rajapaksa to go easy.
Some of the Indian parties in Tamil Nadu supports Manmohan Singh's government at Delhi. But he is unlikely to budge as the LTTE had killed Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.
The onset of the monsoons is hampering operations by the Sri Lankan army
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Bayeux-Calvados Award-winning photo by Balaz Gardi shows a U.S. soldier collapsing in exhaustion during fierce fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan
Source:
Daily Mail
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Lebanese soldiers run from the forest fire
A burnt pine forest is seen after a forest fire in Dibiyeh village
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"Don't touch my grub!"
A remote-controlled "carcass cam" captures an inside view of a gray wolf fiercely guarding its meal at the International Wolf Center in Ely, Minnesota. Wolves at the center are provided with food, but wild populations generally hunt in packs. After a large kill, a single wolf can consume more than 20 pounds 9 kilograms of meat.
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Bangladesh had a very painful birth. Here are some snippets of the events in 1971.
Pakistani soldiers hauling away the body of an dead Indian soldier.
People of east Pakistan flee from the Pakistani army oppression
Pakistan army surrenders
Those who had collaborated with the Pakistani army were publicly killed.
AMAZING....
In the dying moments of the Second World War, a desperate Japan sent Kamikaze flights or suicide missions. The bomb laden planes would just ram into US war ships!
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"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
-- George Santayana
Quotes....
"Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness."
--Otto von Bismarck
"When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.'
--Mao Zedong
Quotes....
"The main thing is to make history, not to write it."
--Otto von Bismarck
"When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."
--Winston Churchill
Quotes....
"In time of war the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers."
--August Bebel
"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
--Voltaire
Quotes about War....
"Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war."
---Otto von Bismarck
Quotes....
"Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
--Hermann Goering
Quotes....
"To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy."
--Tzu Sun
"All men are brothers, like the seas throughout the world; So why do winds and waves clash so fiercely everywhere?"
--Emperor Hirohito