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Pentagon eyes contractor ties to hunt for militants

Articles: 26, Last update: Mar 16, 2010 2:01:00 AM, Start: Mar 15, 2010 1:24:00 PM

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UN set for more discreet talks with Taliban-envoys

Articles: 7, Last update: Mar 16, 2010 1:16:00 AM, Start: Mar 15, 2010 10:31:00 PM

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Commando-style raid foiled

Articles: 2, Last update: Mar 16, 2010 1:59:00 AM, Start: Mar 15, 2010 11:43:00 PM

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Pentagon inquiry into freelance 'spy cell'

independent Tuesday, March 16, 2010 2:01:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (Afghanistan) Kabul[1]; Afghanistan[3];

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Entities: Bryan Whitman[1];

A US defence department official is under investigation for allegedly hiring private contractors to gather intelligence on suspected insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan....

Taliban: Kandahar bombings a 'warning'

washtimes Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:59:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (Afghanistan) Kabul[1]; Afghanistan[2];

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Entities: Qari Yousef[1]; Tooryalai Wesa[1]; Stanley McChrystal[1]; Qari Yousif Ahmadi[1]; Zemaray Bashari[1]; Yousuf Ahmadi[1]; Nur Khan[1]; Javed Ahmed[1];

Other categories: Security; Terrorist Attack;

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Javed Ahmed said: "They can do what they intend and want, and the government can't control the situation,"

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan | The Taliban on Sunday called their deadly bomb attacks on the southern city of Kandahar a warning to NATO's top general that the insurgents were ready for the war's next major offensive in their heartland. The series of bombings that demolished buildings and killed dozens —.......

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US official accused of hiring freelance spies

TheScotsman Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:47:00 AM CET | info

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Entities: James Bond[1]; Mike Taylor[1]; Robert Young[1];

Other categories: Security;

UNDER the cover of a benign US government information-gathering programme, a defence department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to...

Blinded soldier learns to see with tongue

TheScotsman Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:47:00 AM CET | info

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Entities: Gale Pollock[1];

Other categories: Security;

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Gale Pollock explained: "It's just so exciting to finally be able to say to people, 'Here is a tool that may help you and start to restore hope to the visually impaired community'. It's just wonderful"

A SOLDIER blinded by a grenade in Iraq has described how his life has been transformed by groundbreaking technology that enables him to "see" with his tongue....

The Female Factor: An Afghan Politician Pushes for a Comeback

IHT Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:44:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (Afghanistan) Kabul[2];

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Entities: Nader Nadery[1];

Malalai Joya, the youngest elected politician in Afghanistan, has received so many death threats that she lives what she calls a fugitive’s life in her own country....

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Terrorists take fight into Afghan capital

usaToday Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:36:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (Afghanistan) Kabul[6]; Afghanistan[1];

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Entities: Hamid Karzai[1]; Abdul Rauf[1]; Abdul Ghaffar[1];

Other categories: Terrorist Attack;

A series of recent suicide attacks in Kabul mostly immune to the battles raging in the southern and eastern provinces of the ......

Operation Panther's Claw: 'Out of 130 men, we have had four deaths, 35 casualties and six amputees. It hasn't been easy'

independent Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:30:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (Afghanistan) Afghanistan[1];

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Entities: Lashkar Gar[1]; James Hill[1]; Gordon Brown[1]; Steve Taylor[1]; Mohammed Jan[1]; Hamid Karzai[1]; Abdul Wali[1];

Other categories: Terrorist Attack;

It has been a hard tour, the violence unremitting, the losses painful and deeply mourned. "Out of 130 we have had four deaths and 35 casualties, four of them have been double amputees, two single amputees, it hasn't been easy, not easy at all," said Company Sergeant Major Steve Taylor....

Obama runs out of patience with Israel

independent Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:30:00 AM CET | info

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Entities: Mahmoud Abbas[1]; Joseph Biden[1]; Hillary Rodham Clinton[1]; David Axelrod[1]; Benjamin Netanyahu[1]; Ramat Shlomo[2]; Barack Obama[1]; Yitzhak Rabin[1]; Michael Oren[1]; Henry Kissinger[1]; Nabil Shaath[1];

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday strongly defended Jewish settlement construction in East Jerusalem in the face of US pressure and what one of his own top diplomats described as the worst crisis in relations with Washington for more than three decades....

Coca-cola, WWF Pakistan enter second phase of environment conservation project

NewsJang-en Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:29:00 AM CET | info

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Other categories: Environment (general);

KARACHI: Coca-Cola and WWF Pakistan’s partnership on improving sub-watershed management and creating environmental awareness in Ayubia National Park h...

Good job prime minister, now just hold the line!

NewsJang-en Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:29:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (Afghanistan) Afghanistan[1];

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Entities: Ishaq Dar[1]; Shahbaz Sharif[3]; Bretton Woods[1]; Nawaz Sharif[1];

ISLAMABAD: Another day, another storm in the tea cup. Only this time, once the cup runs empty then the tea leaves must be read carefully for casual ha...

20 of 320 LT terror targets are in India: US lawmaker

NewsJang-en Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:29:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (Afghanistan) Afghanistan[3];

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Entities: David Coleman Headley[1]; Gary Ackerman[1];

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Gary Ackerman told: “In the wake of the (26/11) Mumbai attacks, investigators uncovered in controller records and e-mail accounts a list of 320 locations worldwide deemed by the LT as possible targets for attack. Only 20 of the targets were located within India,”

Gary Ackerman said: “This group of savages needs to be crushed. Not starting in a month, not in a year, not when the situation stabilises in Afghanistan, not when things are under control in Pakistan, now, today and everyday going forward. We’re not doing it, and we’re not effectively leading a global effort to do it. And we are going to regret this mistake. We’re going to regret it bitterly,”

Gary Ackerman said: “Unfortunately, the LT enjoys a substantial global network stretching from the Philippines to the United Kingdom,”

WASHINGTON: Pakistan-based banned group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LT) has identified 320 targets across the globe, 20 of which are in India, a top US lawmaker...

Benazir violated deal: Musharraf

NewsJang-en Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:29:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (Afghanistan) Afghanistan[1];

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Entities: Benazir Bhutto[2]; Nawaz Sharif[1]; Ryan Crocker[1]; Alí Zardari[1]; Pervez Musharraf[1]; Asif Ali Zardari[1]; Asif Ali[1];

Other categories: Terrorist Attack;

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Pervez Musharraf said: “A person who I call a closet Taliban. I feel he’ll be a bigger disaster. And also, he has a tendency of can’t function with anyone”

Ryan Crocker said (about Pervez Musharraf) : “Security would be a huge issue for Musharraf if he returns,”

Pervez Musharraf said: “We must stop this confrontation between India and Pakistan,”

WASHINGTON: Former president Pervez Musharraf has said he could take part in Pakistani politics from the platform of newly registered political party...

US official set up private spy network in Pakistan: NYT

NewsJang-en Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:29:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (Afghanistan) Afghanistan[4];

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Entities: Bryan Whitman[1];

Other categories: Security;

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Bryan Whitman said: “The story makes some serious allegations and raises numerous unanswered questions that warrant further review by the department”

WASHINGTON: A US official identified as Michael Furlong organised a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan with the purpose of fin...

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Foxman: Don't blame the Jews

jpost Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:27:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (Afghanistan) Afghanistan[5];

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Entities: Joseph Biden[1]; David Petraeus[1]; Herb Keinon[1]; David Axelrod[1]; Benjamin Netanyahu[1]; Ramat Shlomo[3]; Barack Obama[1]; Eitan Gilboa[1]; Jake Tapper[1];

By HERB KEINON 16/03/2010 02:18 ADL chairman speaks out against argument that Israel endangers US soldiers. Israel should immediately battle a charge emerging in the US that its actions are endangering the lives of US soldiers, because it is a particularly “pernicious” argument that “smacks of.......

Hybrid wars, patriot games

guardian Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:18:00 AM CET | info

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Entities: Ann Winterton[1]; Liam Fox[1]; Bob Ainsworth[1]; Peter Sellers[1];

Other categories: Terrorist Attack;

Tories and Labour are in full agreement on each other's cynical unpatriotism The Commons held one of its big debates on defence yesterday. Both sides accused each other of making cheap party political points, by making cheap party political points. Specifically they were exercised about Gordon.......

MIDEAST: U.S.-Israeli Tensions Escalating Quickly

ipsnews Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:08:00 AM CET | info

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Entities: Gerald Ford[1]; Joseph Biden[1]; Hillary Rodham Clinton[1]; James Steinberg[1]; Benjamin Netanyahu[3]; Gary Bauer[1]; Mark Perry[1]; Barack Obama[1]; George Mitchell[1]; Jim Lobe[1]; Michael Oren[1]; Henry Kissinger[1]; Michael Mullen[1];

Other categories: Security;

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Mark Perry wrote: "There are important and powerful lobbies in America: the NRA (National Rifle Association), the American Medical Association, the lawyers – and the Israeli lobby," "But no lobby is as important, or as powerful as the U.S. military"

WASHINGTON, Mar 15 (IPS) - The crisis touched off by last week's announcement of Israel's plans to build 1,600 new homes for Jews in Arab East Jerusalem during a high-profile visit by U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden appears to be escalating rapidly....

Now Indian foreign secy’s turn to visit Pakistan

dailytimesPK Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:07:00 AM CET | info

Trigger words: (Afghanistan) Kabul[1]; Afghanistan[2];

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Entities: Salman Bashir[1]; Nirupama Rao[1]; Manmohan Singh[1];

Other categories: Security; Transport and Energy Security;

* External Affairs minister says ‘we must move step by step’ * Manmohan’s initiative for holding talks ‘in good faith’ By Iftikhar Gilani NEW DELHI: India may send its Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao to Islamabad later this month to ‘cool down tempers’ and to arrange a meeting between the prime.......

NATO must stop cross border flow into Afghanistan, says ISPR DG

dailytimesPK Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:07:00 AM CET | info

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Entities: Athar Abbas[1];

LONDON: Security at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border is a joint responsibility and NATO must stop cross-border flow as it is hampering efforts to crush the Taliban in Afghanistan, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Athar Abbas said on Monday....

Combat training with the US Marines

abc-au Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:03:00 AM CET | info

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Other categories: Security; Funding programmes; EU2020;

LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: For the American military, there's been a positive side to the economic downturn: more recruits. And one of the biggest beneficiaries has been the Marines. Last year they aimed to secure about 37,000 new recruits and exceeded the target....

Q+A - Obama to seek deeper Asia-Pacific ties

thestar Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:02:00 AM CET | info

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Entities: Bambang Yudhoyono[1]; Wen Jiabao[1]; Kevin Rudd[1]; Jeff Bader[1]; Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono[2]; Doug Palmer[1]; Cynthia Osterman[1]; Dalai Lama[2];

Other categories: Climate Change; Environment (general);

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Jeff Bader said: "It's impossible to go to Asia and for the subject of China not to arise,"

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will seek to deepen U.S. ties in the Asia-Pacific region in the face of rising Chinese influence there when he visits Indonesia and Australia next week....

Trudeau Airport faces major roadblocks: Rovinescu

theglobeandmail Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:00:00 AM CET | info

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Air Canada chief decries ‘outrageous' rent paid by Montreal gateway to Ottawa, unfair competition from Emirates Airline...

What Obama Wants to Establish with Islam

kompas Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:58:00 AM CET | info

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Entities: George W Bush[1]; Barack Obama[1]; Din Syamsuddin[1]; Hizbut Tahrir[1]; Abu Bakr[1]; Abu Bakar Bashir[1];

Din Sjamsuddin, the chief of Muhammadiyah organization, conveys his opinion on the plan of US President Barack Obama's visit to Indonesia...

Combat dogs take to the skies for secret missions in Afghanistan

sundaytimes Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:50:00 AM CET | info

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Other categories: Security; Terrorist Attack;

Two members of the Austrian special forces join Nato’s Operation Cold Response, one of Europe’s biggest military exercises, in Narvik, Norway....

Pentagon official set up team to help track and kill Taliban, say investigators

guardian Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:48:00 AM CET | info

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Entities: Michael Flynn[1]; Matt Damon[1]; David Rohde[1]; Mark Wright[1];

Other categories: Security;

Pentagon official alleged to have set up Jason Bourne-style team to help track and kill Taliban The Pentagon is investigating an official who is alleged to have set up a private network of spies and informants to track and kill Taliban militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan....

British Airways strike and union funding row is election gift to Tories

guardian Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:48:00 AM CET | info

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Entities: George Osborne[1]; Eric Pickles[1]; Gordon Brown[1]; Willie Walsh[2]; Charlie Whelan[2]; Lord Mandelson[1]; Derek Simpson[1]; Ed Balls[1]; Michael Gove[1]; Theresa Villiers[1]; Tony Woodley[2]; Len McCluskey[1];

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Eric Pickles asked: "Now that Brown says BA strike is unjustified and deplorable will Charlie Whelan still be welcome at No 10 to run Labour's general election campaign?"

Conservatives will try to paint Labour as a party in financial and ideological thrall to militant unions in run-up to election The Conservatives will tomorrow call on Labour to reject any more funding from Unite in protest at the union's decision to call strike action at British Airways this Easter....

For the first time there are voices questioning Israel’s strategic value

sundaytimes Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:35:00 AM CET | info

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Entities: David Petraeus[1];

Sit down at any dinner table in the Arab world and the conversation will inevitably turn to one of the enduring mysteries of the region. How is it that America has shown such unwavering support for Israel over the decades?...

Drugs violence in Mexico will focus US attention closer to home

sundaytimes Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:35:00 AM CET | info

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Entities: George W Bush[1]; Ciudad Juarez[1];

Other categories: Security;

President Obama does not have to look as far as Afghanistan to find a drugs war, a failing state and violence that threatens the US’s stability. He can look south to Mexico, to a conflict that is bound to displace far-flung troublespots in US preoccupations....

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Foreign UN staffers return to Afghanistan

dailytimesPK Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:22:00 AM CET | info

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* Spokeswoman says organisation having difficulty filling international vacancies over security concerns KABUL: The United Nations mission in Afghanistan is no longer keeping staff abroad as a security measure, after it evacuated hundreds of foreign workers following an attack last year, a spokeswoman said on Monday....

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