11/08/2009 |
Pakistan - After Mehsud: The rest of the Pakistani Taliban won't be such easy targets.
Nicholas Schmidle | Slate
Earlier this summer, the Taliban released a DVD that suggested Baitullah Mehsud was losing his mojo. Unlike other propaganda videos, which show Taliban cadres conducting real ambushes in Afghanistan or firing rockets in the heavily forested hills along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, this one made me think that the Bad News Bears had landed in South Waziristan. A couple dozen guys jogged in circles, ran through some military drills, and fired their Kalashnikovs into the dirt, before forming a circle and dancing a traditional Pashtun jig. ...
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11/08/2009 |
U.S. to Hunt Down Afghan Drug Lords Tied to Taliban
James Risen | NY Times
Fifty Afghans believed to be drug traffickers with ties to the Taliban have been placed on a Pentagon target list to be captured or killed, reflecting a major shift in American counternarcotics strategy in Afghanistan, according to a Congressional study to be released this week. ...
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11/08/2009 |
México - Narcopolítica: Los acusados del Michoacanazo hablan
Diego Osorno | Milenio
En las declaraciones ministeriales hechas ante la Subprocuraduría de Investigación Especializada en Delincuencia Organizada por los consignados del michoacanazo —el mayor proceso judicial abierto contra funcionarios señalados por proteger al narco—, la narcopolítica se entrevera con los nombres de La Familia, Los Zetas y el financiamiento de campañas electorales de PRI, PAN y PRD. ...
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11/08/2009 |
US - Is 'Islam' at war with us?
Frank J. Gaffney Jr. | Center for Security Policy
Last week, John Brennan, the assistant to the President for homeland security and counterterrorism approvingly recalled a key point in the speech Mr. Obama delivered in Cairo in June: "America is not and never will be at war with Islam." Unfortunately, that statement ignores the fact that the decision as to whether the United States is at war with anybody is not entirely up to our leadership or people. The real question is: Is ‘Islam' at war with us? ...
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11/08/2009 |
Maras - El estado embrionario de un peligroso fenómeno
Juan Carrá | Diario El Atlántico
La posibilidad de que las llamadas “Maras” se instalen en el país es una realidad. La socióloga Laura Etcharren, especialista en el tema, dialogó con El Atlántico sobre las implicancias del fenómeno. ...
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11/08/2009 |
Spain - Basque terrorism: Dying spasms.The latest attacks by ETA only show its weakness.
The Economist Staff | The Economist
IT WAS a macabre, if predictable, way of celebrating ETA’s 50th anniversary. Last month the violent Basque separatist group planted two bombs, killing two Spanish policemen and ripping out several floors of a Civil Guard barracks. ...
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11/08/2009 |
Bolivia, Ecuador y Venezuela vinculados al cártel más poderoso de la cocaína
Hoy Bolivia Staff | Hoy Bolivia
“Al menos tres de los gobiernos pertenecientes a Unasur --Bolivia, Ecuador y Venezuela-- están estrechamente vinculados a las FARC, el cartel más poderoso de la cocaína en el continente", denunció la la Unión de Organizaciones Democráticas de América (UnoAmérica). ...
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11/08/2009 |
Israel and the 'realists'
Caroline Glick | Center for Security Policy
Voices in America calling for downgrading US relations with Israel seem to multiply by the day. One of the new voices in the growing anti-Israel chorus is the Atlantic's well-respected military affairs commentator, Robert Kaplan. This week Kaplan authored a column for the magazine's online edition titled "Losing patience with Israel." ...
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10/08/2009 |
On Obama's Mexico Agenda: Stopping the Guns from El Norte
Ioan Grillo | Times
The camcorder shakes as it films the thud of thick .50 caliber bullets ripping through a steel plate target in the heat of the Arizona desert. Panning across the jagged rocks and cacti, the camera then focuses on the shooter: a smiling Mexican sitting down on the dust as he uses both hands to fire the huge state-of-the-art weapon that can tear through tank armor. ...
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10/08/2009 |
México - In Ciudad Juarez, young women are vanishing
Ken Ellingwood | Los Angeles Times
Amid the drug war's bloodshed, the Mexican border city has been shaken by the disappearances of at least two dozen teenage girls and young women. Officials have few leads. ...
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