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ISW News Roundup - February 20, 2009
Feb 20, 2009 - Anonymous
Iraq
Associated Press - Iraqi Provincial Elections Results
Times Online UK - Iranian builders win contracts in city that Shias helped to wreck, by Michael Evans
Reuters - FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq
LA Times - Iraqi shoe-thrower's case is adjourned, by Tina Susman and Raheem Salman
RFE/RL - Iraqi Stock Exchange Trades Chalkboards For Computers
RFE/RL - Iraqi Parliament Again Fails To Elect Speaker
Pakistan
LA Times - India concerned by Pakistan's truce with militants, by Mark Magnier
Associated Press - Bomb kills 28 at Shiite funeral in Pakistan, by Munir Ahmad
Reuters - Suicide bomber kills 27, wounds 65 at Pakistan funeral, by Mustansar Baluch
Reuters -U.S. envoy calls Pakistan's Zardari over Swat deal
Long War Journal - Swat Taliban demands military withdrawal, prisoner release, by Bill Roggio
Long War Journal - Pakistan: Wanted terrorists Azhar, Ibrahim not in country, by Bill Roggio
Reuters - U.N. seeks contact with American's captors in Pakistan
Afghanistan
RFE/RL - U.S. moves Suggest Afghan NATO Supply-Route Talks With Kyrgyzstan
Times Online UK - Commandos target drug labs where Taleban and mafias reap $100m profits, by Tom Coghlan
Times Online UK - Call to send more civilian personnel as US plea for Afghanistan troops fails, by Catherine Philip
Reuters - Tajikistan allows NATO cargo transit to Afghanistan, by Roman Kozhevnikov
RFE/RL - Kidnappers Free Afghan Health Workers In Kabul
BBC - NATO 'can't allow Afghan failure'
BBC - Secret of Thai success in opium war, by Alastair Leithead
Region
Kyrgyzstan
Associated Press - Kyrgyz issues eviction notice to U.S., by Leila Saralayeva
Associated Press - Gates won't write off base, yet
Israel
Associated Press - Peres: Netanyahu will form new gov't, by Matti Friedman
Times Online UK - Binyamin Netanyahu to be Israel's next Prime Minister, by David Byers
BBC - Yemeni Jews airlifted to Israel
Iran
Times Online UK - UN nuclear warning after discovery of extra 209kg of uranium in Iran, by Catherine Philip
Reuters - Iran slows atom plant growth but fuel stockpile rises, by Mark Heinrich
BBC - Iran in 'backroom offers' to West, by Bridget Kendall
RFE/RL - Iranian FM Promises Proper Response To U.S. Policies
Syria
BBC - Syria samples reveal more uranium
Assorted News
Associated Press - Sources: War tours strain US military readiness, by Lolita C. Baldor
Reuters - U.S. Navy, NATO toughen action against pirates
Washington Post - Detainee Alleging Torture to Be Sent to Britain, Source Says, by Peter Finn and Julie Tate