Todays Photos Monday May 9th 2011
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Afghan soldiers and U.S. soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) check inside the Traffic Department building, a Taliban stronghold, after a two-day assault in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, May 9, 2011.
A U.S. K9 soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) uses a sniffer dog as part of security operations after a two-day assault against Taliban in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, May 9, 2011.
An Afghan man photographs the wreckage of a motorcycle used by a suicide attacker in Qarghayi, Laghman province east of Kabul, Afghanistan Monday, May 9, 2011. A suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up in front of a compound belonging to Saleh Mohammad Niazi, the chief of the Qarghayi district. Niazi said people were killed in the blast and others wounded _ including two police officers. The bomber was targeting a NATO convoy. There were no immediate reports on coalition casualties.
An Afghan youth looks at the wreckage of a motorcycle used by a suicide attacker in Qarghayi, Laghman province east of Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, May 9, 2011. A suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up in front of a compound belonging to Saleh Mohammad Niazi, the chief of the Qarghayi district. Niazi said people were killed in the blast and others wounded _ including two police officers. The bomber was targeting a NATO convoy. There were no immediate reports on coalition casualties.
US Marines Corporal Joshua Boston (R) and Lance Corporal David Jewell (2nd R) from Combat Operation Patrol (COP) Bandini of 2nd Batallion 8 Marine (2/8) Weapons Company 81's Platoon search for weapons at an insurgent compound in Sistani, Helmand Province on May 8, 2011. There are about 130,000 international forces deployed in Afghanistan under the leadership of the United States to defeat a Taliban-led insurgency fighting since the US-led invasion of the troubled nation in 2001.
A United States Marine Cobra attack helicopter fires diversionary flares as it flies near Forward Operating Base Edi in the volatile Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan, Sunday, May 8, 2011.
Maureen Murphy, mother of Lt. Michael Murphy (SEAL) and ship's sponsor, breaks a bottle of champagne across the bow of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer Pre-commissioning Unit (PCU) Michael Murphy (DDG 112) during the ship's christening ceremony at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, May 7, 2011. Murphy was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during Operation Red Wings in Afghanistan in June 2005. He was the first Sailor awarded the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War.
An Iraqi police man inspects a damaged car caught in a road side bomb which targeted a police patrol in central Baghdad on May 9, 2011.
Policemen gather at the site of a bomb attack in Baghdad May 9, 2011. The roadside bomb in central Baghdad went off near a police patrol and wounded six people, including two policemen, police said.
U.S. soldiers with the NATO led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) react after their convoy was attacked by a suicide attacker using a motorcycle in Qarghayi, Laghman province east of Kabul, Afghanistan Monday, May 9, 2011. A suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up in front of a compound belonging to Saleh Mohammad Niazi, the chief of the Qarghayi district. Niazi said people were killed in the blast and others were wounded _ including two police officers. The bomber was targeting a NATO convoy. There were no immediate reports on coalition casualties.
U.S. and Afghan forces are seen at the site of a suicide blast in Laghman province May 9, 2011. A suicide bomber on a motorcycle wounded several people, including foreign troops, Afghan police and civilians, near the centre of Qarghai district in eastern Laghman province, Afghan and NATO officials said.
Afghan soldiers and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) conduct security operations two days after Taliban assault in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday, May 9, 2011.
People hold portraits to support Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi during a communist procession to mark the Victory Day in central Moscow May 9, 2011. Russia celebrates the 66th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany.
Libyans shout slogans and hold posters of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi and Russian Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin during a communist party meeting in Moscow on May 9, 2011. Russia was due Monday to march 20,000 soldiers and its most advanced missiles across Red Square in a parade marking victory in World War II and reinforcing the country's belief in its Soviet-era might.
Somali security officials patrol near southern Mogadishu's K4 intersection Monday May 9, 2011 conducting operations to ensure security a day after Islamist insurgents in the country vowed to avenge for the death of the Al-Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden.
A Jammu and Kashmir Armed Police (JKAP) soldier checks his weapon in the guard of honour at the civil secretariat complex on the first day of the Darbar Move in Srinagar on May 9, 2011. Indian Kashmir's chief minister Omar Abdullah struck a note of optimism on the talks between India and Pakistan, saying 'the killing of Al-Qaeda Chief will not have any bearing on the renewed process. The civil secretariat, which houses the office of the chief minister and his colleagues, reopened in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir, after six months in Jammu, the winter capital. The Darbar Move is the age-old tradition of shifting the civil secretariat and other government offices to Jammu during the winter months and reopening in Srinagar in summer.
Security forces investigate the site of a shooting attack in front of a mosque in the southern Pattani province May 8, 2011. Suspected insurgents killed two Buddhists in a drive-by shooting Sunday in Thailand's deep south, police said, the latest in an upsurge of violence in the troubled region bordering Malaysia. Thailand's deep south is among Asia's most violent places, with more than 4,500 people killed since 2004 in gun and bomb attacks the authorities blame on militants fighting for autonomy for the region's ethnic Malay Muslim majority.
An armed police soldier guards Indonesian radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir in a holding cell at the Jakarta court before his trial in on May 9, 2011. Indonesian prosecutors dropped the most serious terror charges against radical cleric Abu Bakar Bashir for lack of evidence, leaving him facing a possible life sentence instead of death. Prosecutors at his trial in Jakarta said the charge of providing firearms and explosives for terrorist acts, for which the 72-year-old preacher could have faced the death penalty, 'could not be proven convincingly'.
Police officers march beside debris at the tsunami-devastated town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi prefecture on May 9, 2011. Japan's largest earthquake of magnitude 9.0 hit the northeastern region on March 11, releasing massive tsunami to destroy the Pacific coast of northern Japan which killed nearly 15,000 people with more than 10,000 still missing.
VENICE, ITALY - MAY 08: Pope Benedict XVI sits aboard the Dogaressa gondola escorted by several gondolas and a police officer on a jet ski across St Mark's basin on May 8, 2011 in Venice, Italy. Pope Benedict XVI is visiting Venice, some 26 years after predecessor Pope John Paul II last visited city.
VENICE, ITALY - MAY 08: Police divers perform underwater security checks to the gondola due to carry Pope Benedict XVI in St. Mark's basin on May 8, 2011 in Venice, Italy. Pope Benedict XVI is visiting Venice, some 26 years after predecessor Pope John Paul II last visited city.
