3 January 2012 Updated at 19:18 ET
Global terror: Potential flashpoints in 2012
Frank Gardner
BBC Security Correspondent
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With much of the Middle East in flux, suspicions intensifying over Iran's nuclear ambitions, a deepening political crisis in Pakistan, and the escalation of jihadist violence in Nigeria there are plenty of potential flashpoints in the year ahead
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