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NATO headquarters

NATOSource

Nov 20, 2013

German Spy Sentenced to Seven Years in Jail for Stealing NATO’s ‘Crown Jewels’ of Secrets

By AFP

A German court Tuesday sentenced a former NATO employee to seven years in jail for spying after the IT expert copied secret data in order to sell it to a foreign intelligence service.

Germany Intelligence

MENASource

Nov 20, 2013

Top News: Jordanians Charged with Terrorism Over Campus Clashes

By MENASource

Jordanian military prosecutors on Wednesday charged fifteen men, including students, with carrying out “terrorist acts” over clashes on a university campus that injured four people, a judicial official said.

MENASource

Nov 20, 2013

Top News: Car Bomb Kills Twelve Soldiers in Sinai

By EgyptSource

Twelve soldiers were killed, and at least thirty others wounded, in a car bombing incident in Kharouba near Arish, North Sinai, on Wednesday morning. Assailants also attacked a police checkpoint in eastern Cairo in the early hours of Wednesday morning, injuring four policemen with a homemade bomb. 

MENASource

Nov 20, 2013

Jordan: A Model for Reform or a Black Hole?

By Amani Al-Khatahtbeh

Jordanians affectionately refer to their country as “the black hole of the Middle East” for a reason. For any native, underneath all the presumptuous assertions that “I don’t fear the mukhabarat! I’m not afraid to speak my mind in this country,” and “We have freedom of speech—the government wouldn’t do anything to harm us,” there […]

Middle East
Dutch F-16 participating in Operation Unified Protector

NATOSource

Nov 20, 2013

Netherlands Favors German Plan to Reform NATO

By NL Times

Netherlands supports the German plan to give the larger countries a leading position within the NATO.

Germany NATO

New Atlanticist

Nov 20, 2013

Desperately Needed: A New Security Mindset for the Twenty-First Century

By Harlan Ullman

Since George Washington was America’s first commander-in-chief, successive administrations have often been accused of either lacking a strategy or having one that did not work. The major exceptions perhaps were the bipartisan policies of containment and deterrence that ultimately prevailed over the Soviet Union. The debate then focused more on means than on ends.

MENASource

Nov 19, 2013

Top News: Russia Strikes Missile Deal with Egypt

The head of Russia’s state-controlled industrial holding company says Moscow has signed a deal to provide Egypt with air defense missile systems. Monday’s statement by Russian Technologies chief Sergei Chemezov followed last week’s trip to Egypt by Russia’s foreign and defense ministries.

Libyan milita

NATOSource

Nov 19, 2013

No Final Decision on US Plans to Train Libyan Military

By New York Times, Reuters, and AP

From Thom Shanker, New York Times:  The United States military is considering a mission to train Libyan security personnel with the goal of creating a force of 5,000 to 7,000 conventional soldiers and a separate, smaller unit for specialized counterterrorism missions

Libya Security & Defense

MENASource

Nov 19, 2013

Lina Attalah on the Sisi Mania in Egypt

By MENASource

The hypernationalism that has taken hold in Egypt centers around the oft-touted Nasser-like saviour of a nation, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. One can hardly to walk the streets of Cairo without catching some glimpse of homage paid to the General in the form of chocolates, posters, or even provactive internet videos.

North Africa
European drone prototype, nEUron

NATOSource

Nov 19, 2013

European Defense Ministers Agree to Form ‘Drone Club’

By AP and AFP

From AP:  France, Germany and other European countries on Tuesday formed a “drone users club” to develop a rival to the U.S. and Israeli pilotless aircraft that dominate the field.

Drones European Union
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