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Update: NATO activities in Libya on May 15

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Raging at Rawalpindi

By Shuja Nawaz

The United States has long complained that Pakistan’s military and intelligence services are playing a double game when it comes to terrorism and extremism: publicly promising cooperation-and indeed delivering some-while privately supporting America’s enemies. They point to Pakistan’s apparent reluctance to take on groups like the Haqqaani network, a Taliban affiliate that launches attacks on […]

NATO sinks naval IED launched by pro-Gaddafi forces

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From NATO: In the early hours of 16 May, maritime forces engaged in the NATO-led Operation Unified Protector detected two rigid-hull inflatable boats (RHIBs) that appeared to have deployed from the vicinity of Zlintan and were headed towards Misrata.

British ships protected by borrowed US spy plane in Libya

By Laura Roberts, the Telegraph

From Laura Roberts, the Telegraph:  HMS Liverpool, mine hunter HMS Brocklesby and nuclear submarine HMS Triumph have been watched by a US Navy P-3 Orion

Russia deploys advanced antiaircraft missiles on combat duty

By  Itar-Tass

International prosecutors seek arrest warrant for Moammar Gaddafi

By Michael Birnbaum, the Washington Post

From Michael Birnbaum, the Washington Post:  Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court requested arrest warrants Monday for Moammar Gaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi and Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi

Libyan TV carries audio of Gaddafi taunting NATO

By Joseph Logan, Reuters

From Joseph Logan, Reuters:  Libyan state television carried brief audio remarks it said were by leader Muammar Gaddafi on Friday in which he taunted NATO as a cowardly crusader and said he was in a place they could not reach.

Premature Celebration

By Robert Bracknell

Osama bin Laden is dead, radio stations are playing tough-sounding Toby Keith and patriotic Lee Greenwood songs, and the Washington Nationals are even giving away free tickets to military members, in a broad-based gesture of gratitude for 10 years of dogged pursuit of the terrorist rogue. Pundits are deconstructing the raid and its planning to […]

Atlantic Update 5/16/11

By Klee Aiken

Europe reacts to the arrest of IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, France’s "first "Anglo-Saxon" sex scandal." Britain calls for widening the range of targets over Libya, while eyeing further defense cuts within, and Medvedev is irked by what is seen as sidelining Russia out of European missile defense.

Update: NATO activities in Libya on May 14

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