Global News Alert - January 6, 2010
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Afghanistan
Associated Press - Afghan Blast Kills 4 Children, Wounds US Soldiers, by Rahim Faiez
New York Times - U.S. Saw a Path to Qaeda Chiefs Before Bombing, by Mark Mazzetti
Times Online - Ignorant CIA Should Copy Raj Agents to Avoid Failure Says Spy Chief, by Jermone Starkey
Washington Post - Man Who Bombed CIA Post Provided Useful Intelligence about al-Qaeda, by Joby Warrick and Peter Finn
Times Online - Triple Agent Was 'CIA's Best Hope for Years,' by Rana Sabbagh-Gargourin
New York Times - Slow Start for Military Corps in Afghanistan, by Eric Schmitt
LA Times - Afghanistan Cemetery Holds Memories of Foreigners, by Tony Perry
BBC News - UN Leader Ban Ki-Moon Gives Afghanistan Warning, by Tom Lane
Reuters - Karzai Seeks New Cabinet before London Conference, by Hamid Shalizad
Washington Times - Afghan Girls Flourish in New School, by Richard Tomkins
Pakistan
Assocaited Press - Officials: Suspected US Drone Kill 12 in Pakistan, by Rasool Dawar
Reuters - Bomber Kills Three Soldiers in Pakistani Kashmir, by Abu Arqam Naqash
New York Times - Attack in Kashmir Kills 3 Pakistani Soldiers, by Salman Masood
Iraq
LA Times - Iraq Frees Shiite Militant in Exchange for Briton, Followers Say, by Ned Parker and Saad Fakhrildeen
New York Times - Suspect in Deaths of 5 G.I.'s Is Freed, Iraqi Officials Say, by Timothy Williams and John Leland
Times Online - Iraq Inquiry: British Firms 'Did Pretty Well' out of Overthrowing Sadaam, by David Brown
World
Yemen
Associated Press - Yemeni Force Capture 3 al-Qaida Suspects, Lee Keath
LA Times - U.S. to Halt Guantanamo Detainee Transfers to Yemen, by Christi Parsons and Julian Barnes
Christian Science Monitor - To Rein in Al Qaeda in Yemen, Britain Taps Its Colonial Past, by Ben Quinn
Christian Science Monitor - Yemen Sharpens Debate: Are Wars the Answer to Terrorism? by Howard LaFranchi
Iran
New York Times - Iran Shielding in Nuclear Efforts in Maze of Tunnels, by William Broad
BBC News - China Again Rejects UN Sanctions Against Iran
Egypt/Palestine
Associated Press - Egyptian Guard Killed in Gaza Border Clash, by Ashraf Sweilam
Russia
Associated Press - Suicide Bombing Kills 6 Russian Police, Wounds 16, by Arsen Mollayev
Christian Science Monitor - Suicide Bomb in Russia's Dagestan Follows Strike on Al Qaeda, by David Montero
Kosova
Department of Defense - Kosovo Force to Transform into Deterrent Presence, by Michael Hagburg
United States
LA Times - Obama Assails Intelligence Failures in Christmas Incident, by Sebastian Rotella and Christi Parsons
VOA News - US Intelligence Officials to Obama: Message Recieved