SOMALIA: U.S. Should Accept Islamist Authority, Report Says
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Charles Fromm and Mohammed A. Salih
WASHINGTON, Mar 11 (IPS) – The United States should accept an ”Islamist authority” in Somalia as part of a ”constructive disengagement” strategy for the war-torn country, according to a new report released here by the influential Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) on Wednesday. [...]
GATES’ VISIT TO DELHI: STRATEGIC COURSE-CORRECTION
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The contours of the strategic course correction in its relations with India, Pakistan and China, which the administration of President Barack Obama has undertaken since it assumed office a year ago, became evident once again during the just-concluded two-day visit of Dr.Robert Gates, the US Defence Secretary, to New Delhi [...]
CHANGING THE INDIAN INTELLIGENCE CULTURE
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In his R.N.Kao Memorial lecture delivered at the headquarters of the Research & Analysis Wing (R&AW) on January 19,2010, Vice-President Hamid Ansari has done well in raising in public issues such as accountability and parliamentary oversight to which the Indian intelligence community is still a stranger.
2.The concept of an [...]
LEBANON: Spy On Thy Neighbour
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By Ray Smith
NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon, Jan 18, 2010 (IPS) – Recent inter-factional clashes in Lebanon’s Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp once more illustrated the fragile security situation in some of its Palestinian camps. Lebanese plans to take over security within the camps are rejected by the Palestinians.
The new [...]
GUARDING AGAINST SWARM ATTACKS ON NUCLEAR ESTABLISHMENTS
NTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO.611
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A swarm attack is a commando-style attack involving multiple targets and/ or multile modus operandi—-that is a mix of the use of hand-held weapons and explosives. Since the Mumbai terrorist attack of November 26 to 29,2008, which was itself a major swarm attack, there have been [...]
MIDEAST: Israel Declares War on Peace NGOs
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Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
JERUSALEM, Dec 24 (IPS) – One year after the devastating attack on Hamas in Gaza a new wave of reports castigating Israel for war crimes has emerged.
Now, Israel is fighting back with a report on the reports, picking on international NGOs such as [...]
THE INTERNAL SECURITY CZAR
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Delivering the 22nd Intelligence Bureau Centenary Endowment Lecture at New Delhi on December 23,2009, P.Chidambaram, the Minister for Home Affairs, who inter alia is responsible for dealing with indigenous as well as externally-sponsored threats to internal security, outlined a series of measures for revamping our internal security architecture. These measures, [...]
HEADLEY’S CASE: IMPACT ON INDO-US INTELLIGENCE CO-OPERATION
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Periodic misunderstandings and mutual bitterness in the relations between co-operating intelligence agencies are part of the game of intelligence.
2.The CIA’s penetration of the Chennai office of the Research & Analysis Wing in the 1980s to collect intelligence about India’s role in Sri Lanka, its penetration of the Intelligence Bureau [...]
ANOTHER US-CREATED MESS IN PAKISTAN
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You can depend on the US to do it— create yet another mess in Pakistan.
2. The December 16,2009, ruling of the full-bench of the Pakistan Supreme Court declaring null and void Pervez Musharraf’s National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), which paved the way for the US-desired return of Benazir [...]
YEMEN: U.S. Urged to Increase Aid and Involvement
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Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, Nov 24 (IPS) – As President Barack Obama ponders escalating Washington’s military and political investment in Afghanistan, a think tank close to his administration is urging Washington to ramp up U.S. aid and involvement in strife-torn Yemen, as well.
In a report released late last week, [...]
POLITICS: Afghan Army Turnover Rate Threatens U.S. War Plans
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Analysis by Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON, Nov 24 (IPS) – One in every four combat soldiers quit the Afghan National Army (ANA) during the year ending in September, published data by the U.S. Defence Department and the Inspector General for Reconstruction in Afghanistan reveals.
That high rate of turnover in [...]
POLITICS-US: Obama Quietly Backs Patriot Act Provisions
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William Fisher
NEW YORK, Nov 23 (IPS) – With the health care debate preoccupying the mainstream media, it has gone virtually unreported that the Barack Obama administration is quietly supporting renewal of provisions of the George W. Bush-era USA Patriot Act that civil libertarians say infringe on [...]
POLITICS: Realities Collide at Halifax ”War Conference”
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Anthony Fenton
HALIFAX, Canada, Nov 22 (IPS) – While the world’s top military elites gather inside a fortified hotel to discuss NATO’s future, protesters question the organisation’s legitimacy, secrecy, and the lack of democratic debate about the increasingly unpopular war in Afghanistan.
An imposing ‘United States of America’-emblazoned aircraft [...]
AFGHANISTAN: Insurgents Infiltrate Security Forces
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Lal Aqa Sherin*
KABUL, Nov 21 (IPS) – A Taliban fighter infiltrated the Afghan police force, killing seven Afghan officers and British soldiers. Similar attacks have taken the lives of U.S. troops.
Afghan interior and defence ministries deny that the screening of prospective soldiers is poor, but a police [...]
OBAMA’S FAILURE TO UNDERSTAND INDIAN DISTRUST OF CHINA
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The failure of President Barack Obama to understand the distrust of China in large sections of the Indian civil society has landed the US in a situation in which the considerable goodwill between India and the US created during the administration of his predecessor George Bush stands in danger of [...]
INDIA-PAKISTAN: NEED FOR A SUB-COMPOSITE DIALOGUE
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The pending issues standing in the way of a thaw in Indo-Pakistan relations could be divided into the following groups:
* GROUP 1—INTERNAL SECURITY RELATED: Pakistan’s continued use of terrorism against India, inaction against the anti-India terrorist infrastructure in Pakistani territory and lack of mutual legal assistance in the [...]
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