If there are people who are pushing this society towards a dangerous zone - like al-Shabab are doing - I will be writing poems about them.

BBC: Somali poet Abdirashid Omar braves wrath of al-Shabab

In May, 2004, its president, Ezzedine Salim, was killed just outside the Green Zone by a suicide bomber from Al Qaeda in Iraq.

NEWYORKER: The Thin Red Line

And that is going to give the Afghans more capacity to defend themselves because it is in our national interest to make sure that you did not have a collapse of Afghanistan in which extremist elements could flood the zone once again, and over time al Qaeda might be in a position to rebuild itself.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama News Conference

Bringing Jewish settlers into this zone would be crossing a red line, Mr al Malki said, forcing the Palestinians to complain to the ICC.

BBC: Palestinians threaten to sue Israel over settlements

In the 2000 election, CNN and other networks projected Al Gore the winner of that state before the Central Time Zone polls closed in the Florida Panhandle.

CNN: Major Garrett on election reform recommendations

As a band played the Iraqi national anthem, officials lowered the old flag and hoisted a temporary one at a ceremony at Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's office in Baghdad's Green Zone.

CNN: Couple, son killed during U.S. raid in Iraq

Al-Maliki cast his ballot in Baghdad's Al-Rasheed Hotel, in the highly protected and fortified International Zone.

CNN: Peace rules as polls close in Iraq

Even with the current guidelines, Al-Khatib said, some patients may fall into a gray zone and that each physician needs to use clinical judgment to make recommendations.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Kenyan troops have launched a cross-border operation against Al-Shabaab in southern Somalia with the apparent intention of setting up a buffer zone across the border.

CNN: Mysterious al Qaeda 'envoy' dispenses aid in Somalia

Some analysts say the Kenyan government wants to establish a buffer zone along its border with Somalia following a string of attacks blamed on the al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab group.

BBC: Kenyan soldiers in Liboi (file photo)

City's oil-rich Arab billionaires Sheikh Mansour and club chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak are set to bankroll a January spending spree with the intention of lifting City clear of the relegation zone.

BBC: Bridge seals transfer to Man City

Al-Hamadany brought his own canvases and those of about a dozen other artists not allowed access to the Green Zone, artwork which Brownfield shipped in tubes to his mother's house in Michigan.

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