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ISW News Roundup - April 4, 2009
Apr 4, 2009 - Anonymous
Iraq
Reuters - Iraqi forces arrest more U.S. -allied Sunni guards
Washington Post - U.S. Attack Kills American-Allied Fighter, by Ernesto Londono and Qais Mizher
Times Online UK - A mutiny among militia threatens peace in Iraq after US airstrike, by Deborah Haynes
Associated Press - Roadside bombers in Iraq attacked
New York Times - Ex-Blackwater Workers May Return to Iraq Jobs, by Rod Nordland
Washington Post - In Iarq, Political Ambiguity, by Anthony Shadid
Associated Press - Popular, pro-US Iraqi aims to redraw political map, by Hamza Hendawi
Reuters - Gays killed in Baghdad as clerics urge clampdown, by Wisam Mohammed and Khalid al-Ansary
Afghanistan
Reuters - Karzai says anger at Afghan Shi'ite law "inappropriate", by Golnar Motevalli
Reuters - Pakistanis find 43 dead in truck from Afghanistan
Reuters - Afghan leader orders review of Shi'ite law
Reuters - FACTBOX - Security developments in Afghanistan April 4
Associated Press - NATO leaders promise Afghanistan police, trainers, by Deborah Seward
Washington Post - NATO Leaders Pledge Some Aid for Afghan Fight, by Edward Cody and Michael D. Shear
Reuters - Italy considers withdrawing female troops from Afghanistan
Associated Press - Obama hails 5,000 more NATO forces for Afghanistan, by Tom Raum
Pakistan
Reuters - U.S. missile kills 13 in Pakistan, by Alamgir Bitani
Associated Press - Pakistan police: Abducted American UN worker freed
Washington Post - Congress Moves to Set Terms for Pakistan Aid, by Karen DeYoung
Reuters - Obama says does not see NATO operating in Pakistan
Long War Journal - US strikes Haqqani Network in North Waziristan, by Bill Roggio
Reuters - Six killed in attack in Pakistan capital, official says
Long War Journal - Taliban destroy NATO vehicles in latest attack on Peshawar truck terminal, by Bill Roggio
New York Times - Video of Taliban Flogging Rattles Pakistan, by Salman Masood
Reuters - Pakistan aid tied to tackling terror threat: Obama
Region
Israel
Reuters - Israelis kill armed Palestinian woman, by Nidal al-Mughrabi
Reuters - Israeli troops kill two Gaza gunmen
Washington Post - Israel Anticipated a Stronger Hamas in Gaza War, by Howard Schneider
Lebanon
LA Times - Britain says U.S. doesn't object to efforts to engage Hezbollah, by Ziad Haidar and Borzou Daragahi
Iran
Christian Science Monitor - US-Iran thaw could bolster Afghanistan rebuilding efforts, by Anand Gopal