EUCOM Week in Review Ending 30 September 2009

Hot Topics AA: A breakdown of Iran’s missile arsenal 09/28/09 AA: Dialogue urged for Nagorno-Karabakh 09/29/09 AA: Obstacles on the path to world peace – Russia Now 09/28/09 AL: Topi says Albania aware of NATO responsibilities 09/25/09 CY: Cyprus Negotiators Running Out Of Time – Report 09/29/09‎ GR: Growing support for Greece’s far-right maverick party …

PACOM Week in Review Ending 26 September 2009

Hot Topics AA: Can China help to defuse the nuclear threat from Iran? 09/27/09 AU: Australia how-to jihadist jailed 09/24/09 AU: Australia’s military objects to China investment 09/23/09 CN: Could “Tibet independence” and “Xinjiang independence” forces be … 09/24/09 CN: Mao’s Grandson Rises in Chinese Military 09/24/09 IN: Indian state terrorism 09/27/09 JP: Japan launches …

CENTCOM Week in Review Ending 24 September 2009

Hot Topics AA:  Counterterrorism at the expense of COIN will doom Afghanistan and Pakistan: US officials 09/24/09 AA: Israel hiding nukes in Golan, Syria claims 09/22/09 AA: Al-Qaida release video message likening Barack Obama to George Bush 09/23/09 AF:  Afghan jails are base for al-Qaida and Taliban, says US commander 09/21/09 AF:  Afghan warlords will …

Journal: The Afghanistan Impasse–Chuck Spinney Highlights NYT Review of Books

The Afghanistan Impasse By Ahmed Rashid New York Review of Books Volume 56, Number 15 · October 8, 2009 To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan by Nicholas Schmidle Henry Holt, 254 pp., $25.00 Seeds of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda by Gretchen Peters Thomas Dunne/St. …

PACOM Week in Review Ending 20 September 2009

Hot Topics ID:  Indonesia eyes militant networks after Noordin killing 09/18/09 ID: Police: DNA confirms Noordin dead 09/19/09 ID: The Indonesian Police and the KPK Sued 09/17/09 IN: Crime tracking network system by 2011-12 09/20/09 LK: IMHO and the LTTE connection 09/20/09 MY: Malaysia: Untried Terror Suspects Free 09/16/09 NP: Are Nepal’s Maoists a threat …

CENTCOM Week in Review Ending 17 September 2009

Hot Topics AA:  New tape from al-Qaeda leader bin Laden released 09/14/09 AE: TALON Laser-Guided Rocket Team completes first guided test flights 09/14/09 AE: UAE confession was ‘under duress’ 09/14/09 AF:  Afghanistan’s Other Front 09/16/09 AF:  Al Qaeda calls for foreign civilian kidnappings in Afghanistan 09/16/09 EG: Egypt Defends Killing of Migrants Trying to Cross …

Journal: Chuck Spinney on Al Qaeda Message, Two Comments on CIA and Al Qaeda

First, a link to the translated Al Qaeda message. Then Chuck Spinney’s commentary on the rmessage (there is no assurance it is actually from Bin Laden, who may be long dead).   Finally, a Phi Beta Iota comment that will outrage the lame of mind and resonate with every average American. Bin Ladin Says US Should …