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The Ideological Battle: Insight from Pakistan
Seeded on Sun Nov 1, 2009 4:10 AM EST (terrorismanalysts.com)
On a cloudless day in a large field in Aurakzai Tribal Agency, six thousand heavily armed militants gather.
Operation Praline: The Realization of Al-Suri's Nizam, la Tanzim?
Seeded on Sun Nov 1, 2009 2:53 AM EST (terrorismanalysts.com)
Abu Musab al-Suri, also known as Mustafa Sethmariam Nasar, is currently being held in American custody in an unspecified location. Since he was arrested in Quetta, Pakistan in late October 2005[3] and was handed over into American custody he has dropped off the grid.
Strong messages in Pakistan
Seeded on Sun Nov 1, 2009 2:29 AM EST (atimes.com)
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Pakistan to meet with government officials, civic leaders, businesspeople, and even leaders of the political opposition.
Europe stoops to conquer the uzbeks
Seeded on Sun Nov 1, 2009 2:21 AM EST (atimes.com)
The worsening Afghan war has brought some good news for Uzbekistan. On Tuesday, the European Union announced it was lifting a four-year old arms embargo against Uzbekistan.
An Increasingly Open Jihad in Sweden
Seeded on Thu Aug 27, 2009 1:05 PM EDT (EuropeNews)
In this article, on his own blog, Per Gudmundson (one of the editorialists from Svenska Dagbladet, the major Swedish conservative newspaper) gives us a glimpse into the twisted world of Shi'a Islamists in Sweden.
Another Insurgency Gains in Pakistan
Seeded on Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:44 AM EDT (The New York Times)
Three local political leaders were seized from a small legal office here in April, handcuffed, blindfolded and hustled into a waiting pickup truck in front of their lawyer and neighboring shopkeepers.
Pakistan should take credible action against terrorists: Manmohan
Seeded on Sun Jul 12, 2009 12:32 AM EDT (hindu.com)
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday that India was "willing to walk more than half the distance" to normalise relations if Pakistan reaffirmed that it would bring the perpetrators of the Mumbai massacre to justice and would not allow its territory to be used for te …
Links with Taliban intact: Pakistan Army
Seeded on Sun Jul 12, 2009 12:06 AM EDT (Times of India)
Pakistan continues to have ties with the Taliban and would happily get them to negotiate with the Americans if the US could promise to get the Indians out of Afghanistan.
Theory and Practice of Revolution
Seeded on Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:00 PM EDT (The American Spectator)
Revolutions tend to be processes rather than singular events. What has happened in Iran is no different.
Norks & Nukes
Seeded on Sat Jul 11, 2009 12:37 PM EDT (nationalinterest.org)
Throughout the crisis that began in 2002 over North Korea's nuclear program, the dominant assumption among policy elites in the United States and East Asia was that Pyongyang was merely engaging in hard bargaining.
False familiarity in Xinjiang
Seeded on Sat Jul 11, 2009 11:58 AM EDT (JPost.com)
To Israeli eyes, the international media's coverage of the clashes between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese in Xinjiang province has seemed relatively non-judgmental so far. Chinese authorities are less sanguine, wondering why rioters have been described as peaceful protesters.
Clash of Imams
Seeded on Sat Jul 11, 2009 8:29 AM EDT (The New York Times)
The troubles that have followed the Iranian presidential elections were not a frustrated East European-style "color revolution"; nor was presidential candidate Mir Hussein Moussavi's movement an uprising of liberal Westernized sympathizers against the principles of the Ima …
Can Afghanistan's New"Guardian" Militia Restore Security in the Provinces?
Seeded on Sat Jul 11, 2009 8:14 AM EDT (jamestown.org)
As the security situation in Afghanistan worsened, there was an increase in Taliban attacks in south and central Afghanistan, especially in Wardak province, 30 kilometers west of Kabul.
Our Common Foe
Seeded on Sat Jul 11, 2009 7:52 AM EDT (aei.org)
Part of Obama's reticence may be reflect his advisers' tendency to conflate the Islamic Republic's longstanding and somewhat limited "reform movement" with Iranian civil society as a whole. True, many of the pre-2009 reformists have said that U.S. assistance taints them.
CHINA:Turmoil in Xinjiang- Beijing has a Problem
Seeded on Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:37 AM EDT (southasiaanalysis.org)
The Chinese authorities are usually loath to admit any weakness or anything wrong with the system, stability or their control. Thanks to globalization and information explosion, they have begun to admit draw backs at times.
Pyongyang's cyber terrorism hits home
Seeded on Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:27 AM EDT (atimes.com)
North Korea has caught American and South Korean officials completely by surprise with a shocking cyber-offensive that has broad implications for the North's drive to perfect its ability to deliver weapons of mass destruction to carefully selected targets in Japan, South Korea or …
Was British diplomat set up by the Russian secret service?
Seeded on Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:10 AM EDT (Independent.co.uk)
The Foreign Office says it is fed up with "silly jokes" about "from Russia with love". The official line is that there are far too many real problems in places like Iran and Afghanistan to spend time worrying about a junior diplomat being indiscreet in the Urals.
Niger Delta Standoff
Seeded on Fri Jul 10, 2009 4:32 AM EDT (fpif.org)
Behind fighter-planes and gunboats, Nigerian forces launched a full-scale offensive in the Niger Delta on May 13, displacing 30,000 people and sparking a humanitarian crisis.
Zardari admits terrorism nurtured by govt for tactical use
Seeded on Thu Jul 9, 2009 12:36 AM EDT (Times of India)
In an astonishingly candid admission - a first by any Pakistani head of state - president Asif Ali Zardari has admitted militants and terrorists were wilfully created by past Pakistani governments and nurtured as a policy to achieve tactical objectives.
Mousavi labelled 'US agent' as Iran charges UK official
Seeded on Wed Jul 8, 2009 10:31 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
The stakes over Iran's disputed presidential election were raised dramatically yesterday, after a powerful regime hardliner denounced Mir Hossein Mousavi, the candidate officially declared to have lost, as an American agent and demanded that he undergo a public trial.
Forty Tons of Guns for Somalia
Seeded on Wed Jul 8, 2009 10:16 AM EDT (isn.ethz.ch)
The US State Department on 25 June confirmed that it has been providing arms and ammunition to the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia in an attempt to defeat various militia groups around the country, some of which the State Department has labeled terrorist organiza …
Israel Must Avoid an American Ambush
Seeded on Wed Jul 8, 2009 8:55 AM EDT (realclearworld.com)
It works out that US President Barack Obama is a man of heartfelt, long-held principles. It also works out that his principles are divorced from reality and unresponsive to any facts that contradict them.
In Russia, Obama's Star Power Does Not Translate
Seeded on Wed Jul 8, 2009 8:31 AM EDT (The New York Times)
Let other capitals go all weak-kneed when President Obama visits. Moscow has greeted Mr. Obama, who on Tuesday night concluded a two-day Russian-American summit meeting, as if he were just another dignitary passing through.
Bomb parts smuggled into 10 federal buildings during test - CNN.com
Seeded on Wed Jul 8, 2009 8:22 AM EDT (CNN)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Plainclothes investigators sent to test security at federal buildings in four U.S. cities were successful in smuggling bomb components through guard posts at all 10 of the sites they visited, according to a government report.
Are EVMs bugged
Seeded on Tue Jul 7, 2009 11:01 PM EDT (dailypioneer.com)
he concerns expressed by several political parties about Electronic Voting Machines should not be outrightly rejected nor must the debate be politicised by casting aspersions on the motives of those worried by the possibility of misuse of such machines.
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Clinton: We're not getting through to Pakistanis" After three days of encounters with America-bashing Pakistanis - who rejected her contention that the U.S. and Pakistan face a common enemy - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday that "we're not getting through."
- The Ideological Battle: Insight from Pakistan
On a cloudless day in a large field in Aurakzai Tribal Agency, six thousand heavily armed militants gather.
- Operation Praline: The Realization of Al-Suri's Nizam, la Tanzim?
Abu Musab al-Suri, also known as Mustafa Sethmariam Nasar, is currently being held in American custody in an unspecified location. Since he was arrested in Quetta, Pakistan in late October 2005[3] and was handed over into American custody he has dropped off the grid.
- Strong messages in Pakistan
United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Pakistan to meet with government officials, civic leaders, businesspeople, and even leaders of the political opposition.
- Europe stoops to conquer the uzbeks
The worsening Afghan war has brought some good news for Uzbekistan. On Tuesday, the European Union announced it was lifting a four-year old arms embargo against Uzbekistan.
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The Ideological Battle: Insight from Pakistan
Operation Praline: The Realization of Al-Suri's Nizam, la Tanzim?
Strong messages in Pakistan
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Pakistan should take credible action against terrorists: Manmohan
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Another Insurgency Gains in Pakistan
Pakistan should take credible action against terrorists: Manmohan