Small Wars Journal

2 October SWJ Roundup

Sun, 10/02/2011 - 5:50am

US Naval Institute Daily - USNI

Afghanistan

Karzai: Talking Peace With Taliban Futile - VOA

Karzai Gives Up on Taliban Talks - BBC

Afghan Leader Gives Up Trying to Talk to Taliban - AP

Top Haqqani Leader Captured in Afghanistan - VOA

NATO Says It Caught a Haqqani Clan Leader - NYT

Senior Militant Leader in Afghanistan Caught - LAT

Top Afghanistan Militant Captured - BBC

Senior Haqqani Leader Captured in Afghanistan - Reuters

Hundreds of Afghans Hold Anti-Pakistan Protest - AP

Afghan Prisons, Locked in Failure - WP opinion

 

Pakistan

Could Pakistan Dump US for 'All-Weather Friend' China? - LAT

US Struggles to Chart Fresh Course With Pakistan - Reuters

US Missiles Kill Pakistani Militant Commander - AP

Dreaded Militant Hit Squad Goes Rogue in Pakistan - Reuters

Kabul Hands Pakistan Evidence on Peace Envoy Killing - Reuters

Pakistani Is Sentenced in Killing of Governor - NYT

Taseer Killer Sentenced to Death - BBC

Militants Kidnap Pakistan Miners - BBC

Don't Give Up on Pakistan - LAT editorial

Talk to, Not at, Pakistan - WP opinion

 

Israel / Palestinians

Israeli Settlement Plans Decried - WP

Palestinians Say US Pressure Over UN Bid 'Unfair' - AP

Iran Assails Two-State Solution for Palestinians - AP

Israeli Air Strike Wounds Three Palestinians in Gaza - Reuters

 

Libya

AFRICOM Commander: NATO Mission Could End Soon - AP

Sirte Medical Needs 'Desperate' - BBC

Notorious Libya Prison Now Symbol of Kadafi Era - LAT

 

Syria

Key Syrian City Takes On Tone of Civil War - NYT

Syrian Army 'Controls Rebel Town' - BBC

Syrian Troops Overcome Rebel Town - AP

 

Yemen

Al-Qaeda in Yemen Still Poses a Threat - WP

Yemen Notes Its Own Role in US Attack on Militant - NYT

Bomb Maker for Al Qaeda May be Dead in Drone Strike - LAT

Officials: Drone Likely Killed Saudi Terrorist - AP

Yemeni Soldiers Killed in al-Qaida Raid - VOA

Yemeni Jet Mistakenly Bombs Army Post, Kills 30 - AP

Yemen After Awlaki - LAT opinion

 

Egypt

Egypt's New Democrats Ready to Defend Nile - VOA

Egypt Offers Poll Law Concession - BBC

Egypt Military Proposes Schedule for Leaving Power - AP

Egypt Police Clear Tahrir Square of Protesters - Reuters

 

Middle East / North Africa

As West Celebrates a Cleric’s Death, Mideast Shrugs - NYT

Iraq Car Bomb Kills 17 at Funeral Near Hillah - LAT

Saudi Cleric Discontent After Women's Rights Move - Reuters

Bahrain Medics Seek UN Probe of Prison Sentences - AP

Campaign Begins for Tunisia Polls - BBC

Landmark Tunisian Election Campaign Kicks Off - AP

Iran's Growing Bluster Spells Danger - LAT opinion

 

Al Qaeda / Terrorism

Strike Reflects U.S. Shift to Drones in Terror Fight - NYT

US Warns of Possible Retaliation over al-Awlaki Killing - CNN

Awlaki Killing Sparks US Warning - BBC

Aulaqi is First Hit for New Drone Base - WP

Drones Weapon of Choice for Obama War on al-Qaida - AP

Antiterror Measures at Home - NYT editorial

Anwar Awlaki: Targeted for Death - LAT editorial

Awlaki, the Model Moderate Muslim - WT editorial

Anwar al-Aulaqi is Dead - WP opinion

An Illegal and Counterproductive Assassination - NYT opinion

 

US Department of Defense

Dempsey Outlines Key Themes in Letter to Troops - AFPS

Gen. Lloyd J. Austin Nominated to be Army Vice Chief of Staff - FO

Commanders Looking for Savings Through Consolidation, Cuts - S&S

NM University to Help Develop New UAV - MT

 

US Department of State

State Department Reeling from Budget Cuts - WP

 

United States

Supreme Court to Consider Federal Power - WP

Hundreds Of Anti-Wall Street Protestors Arrested in New York - VOA

Strange Sorority Fixation was Link that Led to Anthrax Suspect - CNN

 

United Kingdom

Army Experts Defuse Bomb in Center of Belfast - AP

 

Africa

Democracy Steadily Takes Root in Africa - NPR

Nigerian President Pledge to Secure Country - VOA

Nigeria Sect Kills 2 at Wedding With Bomb - AP

Somali Gunmen Abduct Elderly Tourist in Kenya - NYT

French Woman Kidnapped in Kenya - BBC

Kidnappers Escape Kenyan Flotilla, Flee to Somalia - VOA

Thousands of Displaced People Face Eviction in Ivory Coast - VOA

Rwanda Genocide Ministers Jailed - BBC

Zambia Anti-corruption Boss Fired - BBC

 

Americas

Armed Attackers Say Warriors for Mexico - HC

2 Powerful Cartels Dominate in Mexico Drug War - AP

Perry Suggests Sending US Troops to Mexico - DMN

Perry: Send US Troops to Mexico - BBC

Bolivia Amazon Road March Resumes - BBC

 

Asia Pacific

Radical Muslim Group Expands in Asia, Targets Educated - AP

Reports Say Tibetans Protest in Southwest China - AP

Jailed China Nobel Winner's Wife Still Silenced - AP

Indonesia: Arrest over Java Church Bombing - BBC

Indonesia Arrests a Most-Wanted Muslim Militant - AP

Philippines Hit by Second Typhoon in Week, 1 Dead - VOA

 

Europe

Russians Work with EUCOM, NATO on Crisis Response - S&S

Sarkozy to Meet Merkel in Coming Days on Greece - Reuters

Russia: Putin Leaves Tough Jobs to Medvedev in Switch - LAT

Support Organization for Basque Group ETA Disbands - AP

Bulgaria anti-Roma Rally in Sofia - BBC

 

South Asia

Protests Shut Down Indian State - BBC

Nepal: A Maoist in Manhattan - WP opinion