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 PressEgyptian 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

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