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NATOSource

Oct 20, 2011

Update: NATO activities in Libya on October 19

By NATO

MENASource

Oct 20, 2011

Election Timeline

NATOSource

Oct 20, 2011

NATO confirms it hit military vehicles of Muammar Gaddafi loyalists near Sirte

By Christopher Gillette and Rami Al-Shaheibi, the AP

From Christopher Gillette and Rami Al-Shaheibi, the AP:  NATO confirms it hit a convoy of Moammar Gadhafi’s loyalists fleeing Sirte as the city fell Thursday, but there are conflicting reports whether the ousted Libyan leader was in the convoy or possibly killed or captured.

NATOSource

Oct 20, 2011

Gaddafi killed as Sirte falls to NTC forces

By Sitaraman Shankar, Rania El Gamal and Tim Gaynor, Reuters

From Sitaraman Shankar, Rania El Gamal and Tim Gaynor, Reuters:  Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi died of wounds suffered on Thursday as fighters battling to complete an eight-month-old uprising against his rule overran his hometown Sirte, Libya’s interim rulers said.

New Atlanticist

Oct 19, 2011

The Strategic Influence Game 3: The Loser

By Julian Lindley-French

Strategy is the art of gaining the greatest influence at least cost. For at least a generation the British elite have specialised in gaining the least influence at the greatest cost – be it in Europe, the transatlantic relationship or the wider world. Why? The factors are many but put simply Britain’s political elite have […]

United Kingdom

NATOSource

Oct 19, 2011

U.S. not sure Russia and NATO will reach agreement on missile defense before the Chicago summit

By Susan Cornwell and Jim Wolf, Reuters

From Susan Cornwell and Jim Wolf, Reuters:  The United States has invited Russia to use its own radars and other sensors to size up one or more U.S. missile-defense flight tests as part of a new push to persuade Moscow that the system poses it no threat, a Pentagon official said on Tuesday.

United States and Canada

New Atlanticist

Oct 19, 2011

UN Rips Iran’s Human Rights Record in New Report

By Barbara Slavin

A forthcoming U.N. report, obtained by Foreign Policy in advance of its publication later this week, condemns the Iranian regime for wide-ranging human right abuses, including the secret killings of hundreds of prisoners under mysterious circumstances. The report, compiled by Ahmed Shaheed, the new U.N. “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the […]

New Atlanticist

Oct 19, 2011

Putin and the US Senate

By Anna Borshchevskaya

On October 12, the U.S. Senate held a hearing to confirm National Security Council official Michael McFaul to be the next U.S. ambassador to Russia. McFaul used his testimony to defend the Obama administration’s “reset” policy, even though the policy has neither reversed the antagonism which marks the U.S.-Russian relationship nor improved U.S. national security. […]

Russia

NATOSource

Oct 19, 2011

The Real Recep Tayyip Erdogan

By Morton Abramowitz, the National Interest

United States and Canada

NATOSource

Oct 19, 2011

NATO Secretary General condemns terrorist attacks in Turkey

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  On behalf of NATO, I condemn in the strongest possible terms the recent attacks in South-Eastern Turkey, which killed and injured several Turkish soldiers, policemen and civilians, including a child.

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