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Haiti
Joint Task Force Haiti has requested that the 82nd Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team be allowed to start returning home, said Col. Gregory Kane, task force operations officer.
The task force made the request to U.S. Southern Command, and it will ultimately have to be approved by Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
“There have been discussions [in [...]
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Israel: Kurdistan
According to recent media reports, Israeli military and intelligence agents are currently operating in Iraqi Kurdistan. Their primary role, according to reports, is to train elite Kurdish commandos in guerrilla warfare and anti-terror tactics. The Kurds – whose country is currently occupied by Iraq, Turkey, Iran and Syria – are reportedly again, after many [...]
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Syria
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem has cautioned Israel against any act of adventurism and launching a war against his country, saying such a move would only endanger the regime’s stability.
The Bush administration pulled the U.S. ambassador out of Syria in 2005 to protest the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, in which Syrian [...]
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What’s behind renewed war jitters in Israel, Lebanon?
Christian Science Monitor/Nicholas Blanford
The saber-rattling between Israel and Lebanon – which Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman extended to Syria – has created an atmosphere similar to the one that preceded Israel’s 1982 invasion.
Beirut, Lebanon
A renewed flurry of threats and warnings between Israeli officials and the leaders of Lebanon’s militant Shiite organization Hezbollah have sparked a [...]
Netanyahu slaps down minister to end war of words with Syria
Guardian/Ian Black
Israeli prime minister rebukes foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, for threat directed at Syrian president
Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has slapped down his controversial foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, for warning President Bashar al-Assad of Syria that his regime would collapse if he attacked the Jewish state.
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Haiti
A large aftershock rocked Haiti Wednesday morning, one week after a devastating earthquake killed as many as 200,000 people.The U.S. Geological Survey estimated the magnitude of Wednesday’s aftershock at 6.1. Last week’s quake registered 7 on the Richter scale.When the aftershock hit, pieces of the ceiling in the Canadian Embassy’s media room fell, sending journalists [...]
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Israel and Syria
Israel should renew peace negotiations with Syria, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said at Sunday’s cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. A peace accord with Syria will serve Israel’s vital interests such as security arrangements, deterrence, demilitarization, water and diplomatic relations, Haaretz quoted the defense minister saying. Vice Prime Minister Eli Yishai rejected Barak’s stand, saying [...]
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Mossad Hacked Syrian Official’s Computer Before Bombing Mysterious Facility
Wired | Kim Zetter
Agents of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service hacked into the computer of a senior Syrian government official a year before Israel bombed a facility in Syria in 2007, according to Der Spiegel.
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Iran and the UN
Iran ignored a U.N. deadline on Friday to respond to an international draft deal for it to cut an atomic stockpile the West fears could be used for weapons, and challenged the basis of the pact.
Pakistan and US
U.S. drones are providing intelligence and surveillance to the Pakistani military for its offensive against [...]
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