05/04/2007 |
Why Iran Released the Hostages
Kenneth R. Timmerman | Front Page Magazine
The latest looney-tune story from the left was spun by Patrick Cockburn, an intrepid reporter for London’s Independent newspaper. According to this Iranian-sponsored fairy tale, it’s all Bush’s fault. ...
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04/04/2007 |
México - Crea el narco imagen de inseguridad total, alertan
Francisco Gomez | El Universal
Pretende generalizar una percepción de debilidad oficial, seńalan expertos . ...
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04/04/2007 |
Iran emboldened: Tehran seeks to dominate Middle East politics
Peter Brookes | The Heritage Foundation
With the creeping possibility of a nuclear breakout, its vigorous sponsorship of international terrorism and its escalating intervention next door in Iraq, the Islamic Republic of Iran is a triple threat — at least — to international security and America's Middle Eastern interests. ...
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04/04/2007 |
Tense times for Georgia
Strategic Intelligence Review Staff | Strategic Intelligence Review
The government of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili is coming under increased pressure from Moscow which recently warned that the country’s closer ties with Nato and the EU are part of a wider "anti-Russian campaign". ...
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04/04/2007 |
Regional Focus- Southern Cone
Latinnews staff | Latin News
It was an eventful week for President Néstor Kirchner and one that could potentially have a defining influence on October's presidential elections. Firstly, his government was involved in a diplomatic spat with the US for granting Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez permission to address a rally attacking George W Bush while the US President was in Uruguay. Kirchner's wife, Senator Cristina Fernández, meanwhile, was boosting her profile and cementing the government's foreign-policy priorities by visiting Ecuador and Venezuela. Secondly, Roberto Lavagna, the main threat to either Kirchner or Fernández winning the elections, at last sealed his alliance with one faction of the Unión Cívica Radical (UCR) and is now trying to unite dissident Peronists. Finally, Kirchner became embroiled in a power clash with the judiciary which, for once, stood its ground. ...
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04/04/2007 |
Myanmar & Thailand: Border tension
AsiaInt Staff | AsiaInt
After the killing last week of a Thai army ranger by Burmese forces, tensions have not subsided this week along the Thai-Myanmar border. A pro-government Burmese rebel group has kidnapped two Thai police officers, prompting Thailand to close a number of border checkpoints in protest. ...
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04/04/2007 |
Russia and China agree
AsiaInt Staff | AsiaInt
China’s President Hu Jintao was in Russia this week for a visit aimed at enhancing already strengthening bilateral relations. Hu and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed to greater cooperation between their countries in the region, the world, and even outer space. ...
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04/04/2007 |
The costs of terrorism
AsiaInt Staff | AsiaInt
The bombing of a train connecting India to Pakistan has highlighted the persistent risk of terrorism in South Asia. The tendency of the regional security establishment to assess this risk in terms of relations between India and its neighbours provides a key by which local security arrangements can be understood; not in isolation but as part of an overlapping set of concerns involved with the rationalisation of states still only 60 years old. ...
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03/04/2007 |
Former FBI Agent Missing in Iran
A.P. | Breitbart
The U.S. is seeking information from Iran about a former FBI agent who was reported missing while on a business trip there several weeks ago. ...
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03/04/2007 |
US intelligence chiefs see no major security threat from Latin America
Latinnews staff | Latin News
Latin America poses no major threats to the national security of the US - at least according to the latest annual threat assessments presented to the US Congress by the director of national intelligence and the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Indeed the only clearly defined threats are the possibility that Colombia's Farc guerrillas may continue to target US interests and nationals, and that Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez will persist in his effort to 'neutralise' US influence in the region. ...
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