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ISW News Roundup - September 4, 2009
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Iraq
New York Times Blog - Uprooted for Decades, Iraqi Kurds Long for Home, by Sam Dagher
Reuters - Iraq PM asks for U.N. inquiry into Baghdad bombings, by Patrick Worsnip
Reuters - Body handed over in Iraq confirmed as British hostage, by Adrian Croft
Reuters - Four dead in bomb blast at south Iraq mosque
New York Times - At Least 80 Die in NATO Airstrike in Afghanistan, by Richard A. Oppel Jr. and Abdul Waheed Wafa
Reuters - Iraq PM challenges Syria to explain militant aid
Reuters - Iraq deputy transport minister arrested for graft
RFE/RL - Iraq Says Turkey Reneging On Pledge To Boost Water Supplies
Afghanistan
Associated Press - NATO Airstrike Kills Up to 90, by Frank Jordans
LA Times - Report of civilian deaths after NATO airstrikes kill 90 in Afghanistan, by M. Karim Faiez and Laura King
BBC - Many die in Afghan tanker blasts
RFE/RL - Konduz Bombing Highlights Mounting Insecurity In Key Northern Afghan Region, by Nur Mohammad Sahim, Abubakar Siddique
Associated Press - AP IMPACT: Calm - then sudden death in Afghan war, by Alfred de Montesquiou and Julie Jacobson
New York Times - Advisers to Obama Divided on Size of Afghan Force, by Peter Baker and Elisabeth Bumiller
RFE/RL - Pentagon Defends Afghan Strategy As Public Support For War Ebbs, by Heather Maher
Christian Science Monitor - Gates: It is not time to get out of Afghanistan, by Gordon Lubold
Associated Press - Journal entries of AP photographer in Afghanistan, by Julie Jacobson
Long War Journal - Afghan forces and Taliban clash in Kunduz, by Bill Roggio
Washington Post - Gates May Be Open To Troop Increase, by Ann Scott Tyson
Voice of America - Gates: Afghan War 'Not Slipping Through' Obama's Fingers, by Meredith Buel
Department of Defense - Afghanistan Assessment Looks to Defeat al-Qaida, by Jim Garamone
New York Times - Brown to Pledge to Maintain Britain's Afghan Force, by Doreen Carvajal
Associated Press - Brown: Britain to remain in Afghanistan until Kabul can take care of its own security
Times Online UK - The Army is making the same old mistakes in Afghanistan, say soldiers, by Michael Evans
Reuters - NATO head calls for closer EU ties in Afghanistan
Times Online UK - US Embassy in Kabul bans alcohol after allegations of drunkenness, by James Hider
Pakistan
BBC - Executions continue bloodshed in Swat
Region
Israel
New York Times - Israel to Approve Flurry of West Bank Building, by Ethan Bronner
BBC - Gaza sewage 'a threat to Israel'
Iran
New York Times - Ahmadinejad Wins Approval of Key Cabinet Slots, by Michael Slackman
BBC - US disturbed by Iran defence job
Washington Post - Iranian Blogger Does About-Face, by Thomas Erdbrink
North Korea
Christian Science Monitor - North Korea says uranium enrichment in final phase, by Arthur Bright