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Global News Alert - December 21, 2010
Dec 21, 2010 - Anonymous
Afghanistan
NY Times- Life and Death Decisions Weigh on Junior Officers by James Dao
Washington Post- Gauging the price tag for Afghanistan's security
VOA- Former US Ambassador Thomas Pickering Pushes for Greater UN Involvement in Afghanistan by Ira Mellman
Reuters- France receives video of hostages in Afghanistan
Guardian- Taliban using opium stocks like savings nest egg
Washington Post- Afghanistan delivers a belated, muted criticism of Obama's war review by Pamela Constable
Pakistan
LA Times- NATO denies having plans for raids inside Pakistan by Laura King
NY Times- U.S. Military Seeks to Expand Raids in Pakistan by Mark Mazzetti and Dexter Filkins
BBC- Nato convoy ambushed in Khyber, Pakistan
AFP- Pakistan test fires nuclear-capable missile
Iraq
Washington Post-A look at Iraq's top leaders
Bloomberg- Iraq Lawmakers to Consider Cabinet, Months After Vote by Nayla Razzouk and Kadhim Ajrash
Washington Post- Iraq's Camp Bucca becoming commercial center by Sinan Salaheddin
World Tribune- Iraq foils Al Qaida in first solo security operation
Iran
BBC- Powerful earthquake hits south-east Iran
AFP- Lebanon's Hariri camp lashes out at Iran's Khamenei
Guardian- Subsidy reforms threaten legitimacy of Ahmadinejad by Meir Javedanfar
Washington Post- Will Obama get tough with Tehran? by Jennifer Rubin
World
Reuters- China urges North Korea to accept nuclear inspectors by Wee Sui-lee and Sylvia Westall
NY Times- British Police Round Up 12 in Counterterrorism Raids by Alan Cowell