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ISW News Roundup - May 22, 2009
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Iraq
RFE/RL - U.S. Senate Passes $91 Billion War Funding Bill
VOA News - Iraq Attacks are Escalating, by Edward Yeranian
Department of Defense - New Police Officers Graduate in Iraqi Province
Associated Press - Ex-Soldier Gets Life in Prison for Iraqi Slayings, by Brett Barrouquere
The Times - Miliband to Call for Coalition of Consent with Islamic World, by Francis Elliott
Afghanistan
Reuters - Afghan and U.S. Forces Kill 34 Militants in Drug Raids
CNN - NATO Reports Intense Fighting in Southern Afghanistan
Department of Defense - Coalition, Afghan Forces Kill 25 Militants, Detain Seven
VOA News - U.S. Says 9 Militants Killed in Afghanistan
Christian Science Monitor - In Afghanistan, U.S. Troops Thwart IED Threat, by Anand Gopal
VOA News - U.S. Military Official Alarmed by Growing al-Qaida - Taliban Ties, Deborah Tate
Reuters - U.S. Afghan Surge Could Push Militants into Pakistan, by Andrew Gray
The Times - Public Millions Fail to Provide Wells, Schools and Clinics in Afghanistan, by Deborah Haynes
Pakistan
Reuters - U.N. Seeks $543 million for Displaced Pakistanis, by, Augustine Anthony
CNN - Pakistani Refugees Block Main Road Over Conditions, by Ivan Watson
BBC - Pakistan Army Struggles in Buner
Region
Los Angeles Times - Israel Demolishes West Bank Outpost -- Sort of, by Richard Boudreaux