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MENASource

Oct 30, 2012

Top News: Govt Scheme Aims to Increase Sinai Population Through Land Reclamation

By Egypt Source

The government has slated 80,000 feddans of land near Al Salam Canal in Sinai for auction, to be exclusively bid on by Sinai residents. Prime Minister Hesham Qandil announced the plan on Monday as part of government efforts to increase Sinai’s population to 3 million within five years. 

New Atlanticist

Oct 30, 2012

Let’s Wage Cross-Border Peace Now

By Shuja Nawaz

Hurry up and wait! This seems to be the order of the day as Pakistan and India take tentative steps towards normalcy.

India Pakistan

NATOSource

Oct 30, 2012

Gates jokes about long NATO meetings and price gouging over air base in Kyrgyzstan

By AFP

From AFP:  Former US defence secretary Robert Gates joked on Monday about the downsides of his old job, including enduring interminable Nato meetings and price gouging over a Central Asian air base.

NATO Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Oct 30, 2012

What the US Risks by Relying on Drones

By Kurt Volker

 As documented in the recent Post series “The Permanent War,” the United States increasingly relies on drone strikes as a principal and permanent component in fighting global terrorism. This is effective at killing terrorist leadership and is relatively painless politically at home, as it does not require massive military engagements or put U.S. soldiers or […]

Drones National Security

MENASource

Oct 30, 2012

The ‘Felool’ Rhetoric Must End

By Wael Eskandar

On October 19, in a march entitled, “Egypt for all Egyptians” one of the men leading the calls interrupted his own chant saying, “We heard that some Felool are joining this day, we declare that they are not welcome and have no place among us.” Felool is a term which was coined early on in […]

NATOSource

Oct 30, 2012

Finland, Sweden to help NATO in Iceland air policing

By Terhi Kinnunen, Reuters

NATOSource

Oct 30, 2012

General Tom Lawson takes command of Canadian Forces

By Steven Chase, Globe & Mail

MENASource

Oct 30, 2012

Unofficial English Translation of Egypt’s Draft Constitution

By EgyptSource

English translation of Egypt’s draft constitution, provided by Democracy Reporting International. Translated from the original Arabic draft provided here. Available as a PDF download below. Download the PDF 

North Africa Political Reform

MENASource

Oct 30, 2012

New Salafi Party Signals Leftist Trend in Islamist Economics

By Mara Revkin

The ideological spectrum of Egypt’s Islamist scene is most often broken down in degrees of religious conservatism and relative commitment to Islamic law. The Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) occupies the middle-ground, flanked on the left by the moderate Wasat Party and revolutionary-oriented Islamists including former presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh and […]

NATOSource

Oct 29, 2012

NATO announces over $2.7 billion of potential C4ISR investments

By NATO Communications and Information Agency

From NATO Communications and Information Agency:  [A]t a conference in Rome senior officials from the NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency updated Transatlantic Industry leaders on potential upcoming business opportunities in the area of C4ISR and communication capabilities

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