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ISW News Roundup - September 21, 2009
Sep 21, 2009 - Anonymous
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Afghanistan
Reuters - Key points of U.S. commander's new Afghan assessment
New York Times - General Calls for More U.S. Troops to Avoid Afghan Failure, by Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker
Washington Post - McChrystal: More Forces or 'Mission Failure', by Bob Woodward
Associated Press - Afghan police say more troops not the answer, by Rahim Faiez
Times Online UK - Analysis: the flaws in General McChyrstal's strategy, by Jerome Starkey
Washington Post - Changes Have Obama Rethinking War Strategy, by Rajiv Chandrasekara and Karen DeYoung
Wall Street Journal - Obama Questions Plan to Add Forces in Afghanistan, by Elizabeth Williamson and Henry J. Pulizzi
Department of Defense - Afghanistan Strategy Must Focus on al-Qaeda, Obama Says, by Fred W. Baker III
New York Times - One in 4 Afghan Ballots Face Check for Fraud, by Richard A. Oppel Jr. and Archie Tse
Associated Press - Afghan fraud panel to use sampling in recounts, by Heidi Vogt
RFE/RL - UN Confident Afghan Vote Will Be Resolved Before Winter
Washington Post - Afghan Election Woes Raise Taliban's Stock, by Craig Whitlock
Times Online UK - Vision of victory in Afghanistan - but time is on the Taleban's side, by Richard Beeston
LA Times - CIA expanding presence in Afghanistan, by Greg Miller
Reuters - Afghan prisons sanctuary for militants: U.S. commander
New York Times - General Offers Grim View of Afghan Mission
Iraq
New York Times - Copter Crash Kills U.S. Soldier in Iraq, by Steven Lee Myers
Associated Press - Fleeing heat, bombs, Iraqis go north for holiday, by Bushra Juhi
Associated Press - Iraqi Shiite leader appeals for unity before vote, by Hamid Ahmed
Reuters - Iraq's Shi'ite alliance holds door open to PM, by Michael Christie and Suadad al-Salhy
Pakistan
Associated Press - Police say attack on Pakistani minister foiled, by Riaz Khan
Christian Science Monitor - Pakistan foils terror plot in latest success, by Jonathan Adams
Reuters - Captured Pakistani militant dies of wounds
Associated Press - Pakistan's security gains contrast Afghan turmoil, by Robert Kennedy
Region
New York Times - Obama to Meet With Mideast Leaders, by Ethan Bronner
Wall Street Journal - U.S. to Host Meeting With Mideast Leaders, by Charles Levinson
Christian Science Monitor - Can Hamas spoil Obama's three-way Mideast summit? by Joshua Mitnick
Reuters - Israel kills 2 Gaza militants
Reuters - Israel says still has military option on Iran, by Alastair Macdonald
Reuters - Kremlin says Israel promised not to strike Iran, by Conor Humphries
Christian Science Monitor - West Bank settlements become havens of Israeli suburbanites, by Ilene R. Prusher
Washington Post - As Talks With U.S. Near, Iran Denies Nuclear Arms Effort, by Thomas Erdbrink
New York Times - Yemen's North Hit by Bloodiest Fighting in Years, by Robert F. Worth
Associated Press - 10 killed in Somalia border fight, witnesses say
LA Times - Yemen offers cease-fire to Shiite rebels, by Jeffrey Fleishman and Haley Sweetland Edwards
Long War Journal - Somalia's Aweys calls for more suicide attacks, by Bill Roggio
Washington Post - Missile Defense's Shelving Reflected Military's Concerns, by R. Jeffrey Smith