ISW Global News Roundup - May 7, 2010

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Afghanistan

Department of Defense- Forces Capture Taliban Commander, Other Suspects

Reuters- Threat rising from homemade Afghan bombs: U.S. Army chief

USA Today- Obama talks about Afghanistan, Pakistan with national security team

Associated Press- Report: Politics not getting due attention in war by Anne Gearan

BBC- Fresh floods hit northern Afghanistan

Pakistan

The New York Times- Pakistani Taliban Are Said to Expand Alliances by Caroltta Gall

Los Angeles Times- Pakistan assures cooperation in Times Square bomb case by Richard Serrano

The Guardian- Terror group that claimed Times Square bomb is one of many by Declan Walsh

Boston Globe- Pakistan's paranoid press

Associated Press- Gunmen kill 4 police at checkpoint in NW Pakistan

Iraq

Associated Press- Iraq vote winner asserts right to form government by Paul Schemm

Times Online- Fear of bloodshed in Iraq as Iran-backed bloc tries to take power by August Oliver

Agence-France Presse- 'Big ideas' key to US surge success in Iraq: Petraeus

The New York Times- Abducted Kurdish Writer Is Found Dead in Iraq by Sam Dagher

Iran

BBC- Iran's foreign minister hosts UN envoy in New York

The New York Times- Head of Atomic Agency Asserts Right to Scrutinize Iran by William Broad

Reuters- Iran holds war games in Gulf amid nuclear tension

Israel

Agence-France Presse- Israel tells US envoy security key in peace efforts by Patrick Moser

Other News

United Kingdom

Reuters- Conservatives win UK vote, try to build majority by Mike White

South Korea

Reuters- Probe comcludes torpedo sank South Korea ship: report