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May 21st, 2009

A Neo-Con Yankee in Karzai's Court Al-Qaeda Seeks a New Alliance
Fears of a Taliban Spread

May 20th, 2009

US Says Aid Won't Go to Pakistan Nuclear Program US Expected to Prosecute Guantanamo Detainee in NY
A Peace Overture in Afghanistan 1 in 7 Freed Detainees Rejoins Fight, Report Finds
NY Bomb Plot Complaint (pdf) 4 Arrested in New York Terror Plot
Binyam Mohamed: Torture Collusion Claims Silenced for Legal Reasons Ex-AIPACer Weissman Comes Out Against Military Action in Iran
Despite Talk, Obama Seeks to Retake Terrorism Front Trial of CIA, Italian Agents Provides Rare Look at Intelligence Work
Britain to Present New Rules for Gurkhas War Over, Sri Lanka's Next Fight Lies Ahead
India Gives Pakistan New Information on Mumbai Attack Nigerian Army Turns to Informants in Rebel Crackdown
Child Killed in Attack on Somalia Peacekeeper Base Moderates Take on Hardliners in Iran Vote
Food Shortage Worsening in Restive Malakand Areas Clinton Plays Down More US Sanctions on Iran Now
Moldova Parliament Fails to Elect New President New Palestinian Cabinet Takes Power, Widening Rift
US-Russia Nuclear Talks Make Positive Start Israeli DM Pledges to Uproot West Bank Settler Posts
Egypt Arrests 33 Members of Opposition Sudan Hands Down Darfur Death Sentences
Sri Lanka Weighs UN Request for Battlefield Access US Says Myanmar Trial Outrageous, Vote Illegitimate
Pakistan Claims Anti-Taliban Win, Struggles With Displaced UN Rights Inquiry on Gaza to Hold Public Hearings
UN Raises Alarm Over Congo Killings, Rapes UN Doubts Major Hezbollah Rearming in South Lebanon
Gates Defends Cuts to US Missile Defense Programs FBI Chief Undermines Obama on Guantanamo Closure
Napolitano: Piracy Among Coast Guard's Challenges Suspect Pleads Guilty to Supporting Al-Qaeda
Report: Al-Shabaab Leader Wounded in Blast' Ex-US Envoy Says He's Not Looking for Afghan Post
Roadside Bomb Kills Two Americans Outside Kabul Worsening Afghan Security Hurting Children: Unicef
Gates Wants Review of Afghan Plan Next Year US Says Only 30 Afghan Civilians Died in Bombing
Interned Tamil Refugees Face Two-Year Wait to Return Home How MI5 Blackmails British Muslims
Milan Judge Says CIA Trial Continues Russia: Arms Control and Missile Shield Linked
Iraqi Militiamen Frustrated That Promised Jobs Haven't Materialized UN: Highly Unlikely Hezbollah Is Rearming in South Lebanon
Iraq to Slap Foreign Oil Firms With 35% Corporate Tax Kuwait Presses UN to Resolve Outstanding Issues With Iraq
Taliban Threat on Dress Code Works Kurd Official Denies US Trains Rebels
US Army Paid Bonuses to KBR Despite Deaths Iraq Rape-Slaying Prosecutors Want Death Sentence
Ex-CIA Agent: When Did Questioning the CIA Become Anti-American? Military Attorney: Waterboarding Is 'Tip of the Iceberg'
Pakistan's Crucial Role in the Death of Tamil Tigers No Option but to Win Against Militants, Says Zardari
Iran's Missile Test Is Playing With Fire, Says Israel Iran Approves Four Final Candidates for Iran Presidency
KBR's Chief Defends Electrical Work in Iraq Palestinian Rifts Widen as New Hamas-Free Cabinet Sworn In
Clinton Doubts Progress on Iran Talks US Promises to Fully Fund Israeli Missile Defense System
Egyptians Married to Israelis May Lose Their Citizenship Spain Nears Ending Probe of Israeli War Crimes in Gaza
Netanyahu: Israel Ready for Talks With Syria, No Preconditions Three Dead as US Navy Helicopter Crashes Off California
Indonesia Military Plane Crash Kills 98 Iraqi Militiamen Frustrated That Promised Jobs Haven't Materialized
Activists: Delay in Saudi Elections a Setback US Unit to Leave Baghdad Ahead of June 30 Deadline
Senator: Kbr Received $83 Million in Bonuses Judge Says US Can Hold Detainees Indefinitely
FBI Director Concerned About Gitmo Releases Pentagon Official: US Must Take Gitmo Prisoners
Myanmar Lets Diplomats Visit Suu Kyi, Opens Trial Israel Gives UN in Lebanon Cluster Bomb Maps
Israeli Official Blasts Focus on 2-State Idea Car Bomb Blast Kills 41 in Northwest Baghdad
'Go Home Nazi Scum,' Serb Hardliners Tell Biden Vice President Biden Offers Serbia 'New' Relations
US Officials Confirm Iranian Missile Launch European Official: Israeli Strike Likely if Sanctions Fail
KBR Paid $83 Million in Bonuses for Work That Electrocuted US Soldiers Clinton-Era Hard Drive Missing From National Security Archives
Obama to Call for Demilitarized Palestinian State Sri Lanka's Tamils Voice Misgivings
76 Senators Sign AIPAC-Backed Letter on Mideast Wednesday: 43 Iraqis Killed, 79 Wounded
Islamic Insurgents Attack Base in Somalia, 3 Dead Pakistan Army Wrests Town From Taliban, Killing 80
Gov'T: 250,000 Pakistani Refugees Expected in Camp Aid Groups, UN Want to Visit Sri Lanka Battlefield
Israeli Official: 2-State Idea Childish, Stupid Study: Nearly 25 Percent of Iraqis Live in Poverty
Electrician: Contractor Did Faulty Wiring in Iraq Clinton: Iran Can't Have Nuclear Arms Capability
US Studying Iran Missile Launch Iran Says It Tests Missile, Israel Within Range
New US Airstrike Kills 8 Afghan Civilians Prosecutor: Gaza Probe Goes on Without Israeli Ok

May 19th, 2009

To Meet June Deadline, US and Iraqis Redraw City Borders US Hails Pakistan 'Mood Change' Against Taliban
Sri Lankan President Seeks Compromise After War US: American Service Member Killed in Afghanistan
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