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In 2005, U.S. President George W. Bush said the United States and allied forces had foiled at least three al-Qaida U.S. attacks since Sept. 11, 2001.

In 2007, Pervez Musharraf breezed to re-election to a third term as president of Pakistan. But, opposition continued to challenge legality of his serving as both president and army chief.

In 2008, stock markets around the world lost ground on the first day of trading after the U.S. bailout bill became law with American stocks overcoming record declines and an 800-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average.

Also in 2008, suicide bombers killed 27 people in central Sri Lanka and 20 in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province.

And, at least 60 people died in southern Kyrgyzstan when an earthquake rattled the central Asian country.

 

In 2010, the Troubled Asset Relief Program, known as TARP, which authorized controversial bailout funds for financial institutions, came to an end after spending an estimated $388 billion.

Also in 2010, floods inundated more than 200 villages on the Chinese island of Hainan and trapped at least 6,000 people.

In 2011, a jury was selected for the Detroit trial of the so-called underwear bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian accused of trying to blow up an airliner with explosives hidden in his undergarments on Christmas Day 2009.


Copyright 2012 by United Press International

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