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ISW News Roundup - January 19, 2009
Jan 20, 2009 - Anonymous
Israel-Hamas Conflict
New York Times - Shocked and Grieving Gazans Find Bodies Under the Rubble of Homes, by Sabrina Tavernise and Taghreed El-Khodary
New York Times - Parsing Gains of Gaza War, by Ethan Bronner
New York Times - Rebuilding Begins Upon a Wobbly Truce, by Isabel Kershner
Wall Street Journal - Israel and Hamas Enact Cease-Fires, by Chip Cummins, Jay Solomon, and Joshua Mitnick
LA Times - Israel hopes Iran and Hezbollah get message of Gaza offensive, by Sebastian Rotella
LA Times - Saying Hamas is 'badly beaten', Olmert orders unilateral cease-fire, by Robert Boudreaux
BBC - Scale of Gaza destruction emerges
Associated Press - Gaza battles show 'nasty' face of urban combat, by Brian Murphy
Washington Times - Hamas agrees to cease-fire, by Joshua Mitnick
Iraq Security
New York Times - Another Politician Is Killed as Iraqi Voting Draws Near, by Sam Dagher
LA Times - Suicide blast kills Sunni Arab leader, from Reuters
Reuters - Security developments in Iraq
Washington Post - Sunni Arab Leader Dies in N. Iraq Bomb Attack, by Ernesto Londono and Zaid Sabah
Washington Post - Bomber kills manager of election campaign in Iraq, by Sameer N. Yacoub
Defenselink Mil - Iraqi, U.S. Forces Detain Criminals, Discover Weapons, from AFPS
Stars and Stripes - Iraq set to control ' Sons of Iraq' by April, by Ashley Rowland
Iraq Politics and Reconstruction
Washington Post - The Political Dance in Iraq's South, by Anthony Shadid
New York Times - Iraqi Local Council Rejects Premier's Police Apppointee, by Timothy Williams and Mudhafer al-Husaini
Associated Press - Al-Sadr's followers eye comback in Jan. 31 vote, by Hamza Hendawi and Qassim Abdul-Zahra
Associated Press - Top Shiite cleric urges Iraqis to vote on Jan. 31, by Hamid Ahmed
Associated Press - Iraqi invites oil firms to workshop in Turkey
Washington Post - Iraqi shoe thrower to seek Swiss asylum: lawyer, by Frank Jordans
Afghanistan
Wall Street Journal -U.S., Afghanis Are Killed in Two Attacks, from AP
Reuters - Afghanistan held back by weak leadership: NATO
Washington Post - Suicide attack near US base kills 1 Afghan, from AP
BBC - Nato chief faults Afghan leaders
Yahoo! - Afghan foreign minister unhappy with Clinton, by Jason Straziuso
Region
Lebanon
LA Times - Opposition to U.S., Israel unites conference attendees, by Borzou Daragahi
Pakistan
Wall Street Journal - Pakistan Temporarily Closes NATO Supply Route, from AP
Long War Journal - Pakistani Taliban: 'Suicide bombers are the atomic weapons of Muslims', by Bill Roggio
BBC - Fresh attacks on Pakistan schools
Iran
Reuters - SCENARIOS: How ties with Iran could resume under Obama