SOUTHCOM Week in Review Ending 21 July 2009

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AR:  Britains warnings for travelers who want to visit Argentina: 07/16/09

BR:  RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Controversy Surrounds Army Search for Guerrilla Remains 07/17/09

CL:  Mapuche: No Effective Autonomy Without Political Will 07/17/09

CO:  Colombia: rebels funded Ecuador leaders election 07/17/09

CO:  Latin America: Washington, Bogota on Verge of Deal to Make …07/17/09

CO:  New Anti-Ecuador Campaign in Colombia 07/19/09

CU:  Cuba Demands End To US Intervention In Honduras 07/19/09

HN:  Ousted Honduran leader pushes for more sanctions 07/21/09

HN:  Zelaya envoy cuts off current talks on Honduras 07/19/09

NI:  Nicaraguan President Ortega Says Plot to Overthrow Him to Fail 07/17/2009

VE:  Venezuela gets to maneuver diplomatically and economically for the first time…07/19/09

Instability

CO:  Leaders of Colombias Displaced Flee Region Due to Threats 07/18/09

CO:  Three Dead, 20 Wounded in Guerrilla Attack on Colombian Town 07/21/09

EC: Ecuador Battling Illegal Loggers from Neighboring Peru 07/17/2009

HN:  Honduran People Take the Streets 07/17/09

VE:  Venezuelan government steps up threats toward broadcast TV station 07/16/09

VE:  Venezuelas Drug-Trafficking Role Is Growing 07/18/09

Security Forces

CO:  Colombia seizes 1.7 tons of cocaine 07/17/09

CO:  Terrorism must know that we are not going to be tricked 07/20/09

CO: Colombia backs plan for increased US military aid 07/21/09

EC:  US pulling out from Manta military base in Ecuador 07/17/09

NI:  Nicaragua rejects UN peacekeeper deployment in Honduras 07/19/09

PE:  Ukraine preparing agreements on military and technical cooperation …07/17/09

VE:  Venezuelan drug seizures on the rise 07/20/09

VE:  Why should Venezuela trust Colombian FOL deal on US military bases? 07/20/09

Foreign Affairs

BO:  Leaders Gathered for Bolivia Bicentennial Rally Behind Zelaya 07/17/09

BO: Bolivias Morales Says Allies Should Boost Military Cooperation 07/20/09

BR:  In South America, Israeli FM seeks to block Iran 07/20/09

CU:  Cuban President kicks off visit to Angola 07/20/09

NI:  Disaffected Sandinistas say Daniel Ortega has become a dictator 07/19/09

NI:  Ortega to follow leftist allies over reelection 07/20/09

PE:  Colombia regards Peru as its best ally in the region 07/17/09

VE:  ANALYSIS-US, Venezuela tensions rise over Honduras crisis 07/17/09

VE:  Venezuela officials coming for Dominican refinery deals final … 07/17/09

VE: Venezuelas anti-drug efforts fall short, US says 07/21/09

Crime

CL:  Hooded Attackers Burn Truck in Southern Chile 07/19/09

CO:  34 Illegal African Migrants Caught in Colombian Caribbean 07/18/09

DO:  Dominican authorities bust a Haitian children-trafficking network 07/17/09

PE:  Perus Fujimori sentenced to 7.5 years in prison for corruption 07/21/09

UY:  Uruguay: They ask for 25 years in prison for dictator Gregorio Alvarez 07/18/09

VE:  Former Venezuela minister charged 07/17/09

VE:  NAM Supports Venezuelas Request for Extradition of Posada Carriles 07/16/09

VE:  Revolutionary Latin America and Todays Nexus of Terror 07/20/09

VE:  Venezuelan Drug Trafficking Threatens US Gains in Counternarcotics 07/20/09

AFRICOM Week in Review Ending 20 July 2009

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BW: Nationality for sale 07/18/09

CG: Congo-Kinshasa: An Action Plan to End the Worlds Deadliest War 07/16/09

ER: The Existential Threat to the Nation 07/19/09

KE: War is Boring: Kenya Allegedly Funneling Arms to Volatile South Sudan 07/15/09

LR: Charles Taylor: Preacher, Warlord, President 07/17/09

NG: Jihadis Identify US Plots against China in Xinjiang and Africa 07/17/09

NG: The new scramble for Africa 07/18/09

SD: UN official warns of escalation in Sudans Abyei 07/18/09

SO: French hostages given to al Qaeda-linked Somali group 07/17/2009

TD: Another Phony Peace 07/20/09

Instability

AO: Angola concerned about conflicts threatening international … 07/16/09

CD: DRC-UGANDA: LRA torture of civilians continues 07/17/09

GN: Guinea junta threatens doubters with arrest 07/14/09

KE: Kenya: Top Leaders Accused of Planning Violence 07/18/09

MG: Madagascar police say 3 dead in attacks 07/19/09

MR: Suspected Islamist duo killed American in Mauritania: state security 07/18/09

SD: E. Equatorias legislators threatened by military officer 07/20/09

SO: 4 wounded in central Somalia fighting after Ethiopia pullout 07/18/09

ZM: Journos face arrest for military training 07/15/09

Special Operations

DZ: Algeria ex-rebels say cash key to weakening Qaeda 07/15/09

KE: Kenya: US Killed Al-Qaeda Man Behind Govts Back 07/14/09

Security Forces

CG: CONGO: Army Accused Of Atrocities 07/14/09

GH: Ghana: Grumbling Among Military Officers in Takoradi 07/15/09

GM: Breaking News: A Top Gambian Army Officer Absconds To The United States 07/19/09

LR: Liberia: UN troop on high alert 07/19/09

MG: Madagascan High Transitional Authority to improve security 07/17/09

NG: Nigerian rebels: troop movement threatens peace 07/15/09

ZW: Zimbabwe Military Forces Stay in Diamond Fields 07/16/09

Foreign Affairs

CD: China vows closer bonds with DR Congo 07/15/09

CF: Central African Rebel Groups Join Disarmament Process-Official 07/15/09

ET: Ethiopia: Somali Regional State, Diasporas Help Not Needed! 07/19/09

KE: Kenya: Secret meetings as Hague beckons 07/18/09

NG: MEND declares a temporary ceasefire 07/15/09

RW: Rwanda: UN Envoy Calls for Tougher Measures Against FDLR 07/14/09

SD: Darfur peace mediator welcomes release of 60 Sudanese soldiers 07/20/09

UG: UN open to Uganda rebel talks 07/16/09

Crime

AO: Angolan gangs, rape growing like mushrooms 07/15/09

CG: Congos Kabila cleans out judiciary in graft swoop 07/16/09

CG: Human rights group raises alarm over Congo rapes 07/16/09

GM: Gambia North Bank region governor arrested 07/18/09

ZA: South African Civil Society Demands Govt Agree To Arrest Bashir 07/16/09

PACOM Week in Review Ending 19 July 2009

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CN:  China rising in Latin America, but wont overtake United States 07/19/09

CN:  Chinas police-state crackdown in Xinjiang creates international …07/16/09

ID:  The Al Qaeda Paradox 07/17/09

ID: Jakarta Hotel Bombs, The Military & The CIA 07/17/09

IN:  Scientists save India’s moon mission from failure 07/17/09

NZ:  NZ needs to play its part in stamping out terrorism – PM 07/18/09

PH:  Italian freed in Philippines returns home 07/18/09

TH:  Defining the crisis in Thailand 07/17/09

Instability

AU:  Australia security warning about renewed terrorism in Indonesia 07/17/09

ID:  Security Analysts say Jemaah Islamiyah in Indonesia Remains Dangerous 07/17/09

CN:  Xinjiang riot hits regional anti-terror nerve 07/17/09

TH:  Two soldiers killed, five injured in Yala car bombing 07/17/09

IN: Pakistan faces dilemma over nemesis India 07/18/09

MY: Killer and bomb maker a step ahead 07/18/09

TH:  A tale of two insurgents 07/18/09

Special Forces

RU:  China and Russia conduct joint military exercises 07/19/09

SG:  Singapore hones defences against new terror tactics 07/19/09

Security Forces

AU:  Australian PM reaffirms Afghan commitment 07/18/09

BD:  Reviewing injustices in the military 07/15/09

BD:  Top operative of Indias terror group arrested in Bangladesh 07/17/09

ID:  GMA orders security measures following Indonesia bombings 07/18/09

ID:  Indonesia says foreign countries linked to attacks 07/16/09

IN:  Defense Contractors Target Big Jump in Indias Military Spending 07/16/09

LK:  Sri Lankas army chief vows to re-focus military 07/15/09

MY:  Lebanon Ready To Buy Military Equipments From Malaysia 07/17/09

MY:  Urals Company Will Ship Su-30 Spares to Malaysia 07/16/09

PH:  Philippines alert after Indonesia bombs: police 07/17/09

Foreign Affairs

BD:  Foreign officers come calling at NDA 07/18/09

CN:  China investment in Myanmar soars 07/16/09

CN:  China’s Kurdish Policy 07/18/09

CN:  US Reaffirms Its Rights to Operate in South China Sea 07/15/09

FJ:  Fiji finds foreign friends? 07/17/09

JP:  Japan’s Opposition Would Push US to Renegotiate Troop Move 07/16/09

KP:  North Korea focus of Asian conference 07/17/09

KR:  Korean armies face off but repeat of war unlikely 07/15/09

KS:  Terrorism trumps Kashmir in India-Pakistan relationship, for now 07/17/09

LK:  LTTE overseas hardliners see KP as a failure 07/17/09

MM:  Burmese FM to Face Suu Kyi and North Korea Questions at ARF 07/18/09

MM:  Myanmar Opposition Cautiously Organizes as China Defends Junta 07/16/09

PH:  Peace talks with Philippine communists to resume 07/15/09

PH:  Philippines offers to boost cooperation with Indonesia against …07/17/09

Crime

ID:  No military role in Papua shootings: minister 07/15/09

LK:  Sri Lankan military cleared in deaths 07/15/09

NP:  Nepal, Lanka join hands to fight money laundering 07/18/09

PH:  Military exec tagged in Davao Sur drug trade 07/15/09

TP:  East Timor: Trials begin over 2008 Horta-Gusmao assassination …07/17/09

Mini-Me: Israel Culpability for 9/11 – Enough to Indict

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Who? Mini-Me?

This tracks with everything else. 9/11 was at a minimum allowed to happen with Dick Cheney scheduling a nation-wide counterterrorism exercise MONTHS IN ADVANCE so as to be able to stop NORAD from being effective. This is more than enough to provoke a grand jury indictment of the US citizens, and a national commission of truth & reconciliation.

Israel did 9/11 – ALL THE PROOF IN THE WORLD

Phi Beta Iota:  This web site and all of its contributing editors, as well as its founder Robert David Steele, are in the aggregate absolutely committed to truth & reconciliation as the way forward.  Dick Cheney will die soon.  Before he dies, we want the truth out of him, may he rest in peace.

Worth A Look: Book Reviews on Education

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Education

Review: Anthropologists in the Public Sphere–Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power

Review: Voltaire’s Bastards–The Dictatorship of Reason in the West

Review: Weapons of Mass Instruction

Review: Why Don’t Students Like School–A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom

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Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Abuse & Atrocities

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Abuse & Atrocities

Handbook: Democide–Internal Murder by Regimes

Review: Buried in the Bitter Waters–The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America

Review: Come Home America: The Rise and Fall (and Redeeming Promise) of Our Country

Review: Devil’s Game–How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam (American Empire Project)

Review: Dogs of God–Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors (Hardcover)

Review: Failed States–The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (American Empire Project) (Hardcover)

Review: Human Security and the New Diplomacy–Protecting People, Promoting Peace

Review: Imagery of Lynching–Black Men, White Women, and the Mob

Review: In the Absence of the Sacred–The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations

Review: Nation of Secrets–The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life

Review: Obama–The Postmodern Coup – Making of a Manchurian Candidate

Review: Overthrow–America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq (Hardcover)

Review: Palestine–Peace Not Apartheid

Review: Shake Hands With The Devil–The Failure Of Humanity In Rwanda

Review: Terror and Consent–The Wars for the Twenty-First Century

Review: The Attack on the Liberty–The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship

Review: Tragedy & Hope–A History of the World in Our Time

Review: Unspeakable Truths–Facing the Challenges of Truth Commissions (Paperback)

Review: Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush

Worth a Look: Eight Books on Securing the Peace and the New Meme “Responsibility to Protect”

2008-01-29 DoD IG Response to JS FOIA

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2008-01-29 DoD IG Response to JS FOIA

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Letter (2)
Statement of Work for the Review of the January 1991 Death of Colonel James E. Sabow (2)
Info Memo Review of the 1991 Death of Marine Corps Colonel James E. Sabow (2)
DoD Appeal FY 2004 Defense Authorization Bill Against Section 568 (1)
Discussion Paper on the 1991 Death of Colonel James E. Sabow of 7/2/2003 (1)

Aaron, Darryl R. Chief FOIA Requester Service Center

Crane, John R. Assistant Inspector General

Sabow, John David MD Plaintiff

Tenorio, Melanie, FOIA Requester Service Center

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