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Jan 12, 2010

Afghans Optimistic on Future, Support Karzai: Poll

By Reuters

From Reuters: A majority of Afghans are confident about the future of their country, a national opinion poll showed on Monday, with 72 percent rating President Hamid Karzai as doing a good or excellent job. The survey, commissioned by the BBC, ABC News and German broadcaster ARD, found the number of people who thought things […]

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NATOSource

Jan 12, 2010

Norway Hosts a Seminar on NATO’s Strategic Concept

By NATO

From NATO: The third seminar on the new Strategic Concept will be held at the Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel in Oslo, Norway on Thursday, 14th January 2010. Following in the footsteps of the discussions in Luxembourg and Slovenia the Oslo seminar will be devoted to the future of NATO’s partnerships. Hosted by Norway the event […]

NATOSource

Jan 12, 2010

Pipeline Deals to Top Erdogan-Putin Agenda

By Reuters

From Reuters: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan’s trip to Russia to pursue gas deals will boost the EU candidate’s quest to become a key transit hub for Europe, but highlights a difficult east-west balancing game for Ankara… Erdogan starts a two-day visit to Moscow on Tuesday where he is expected to meet Russian Prime Minister […]

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New Atlanticist

Jan 12, 2010

Stop France Arming Russia

By David Smith

 ship Mistral tied up at a downtown Saint Petersburg pier November 23. With the golden dome of St. Isaac’s Cathedral shimmering in the background, the amphibious assault ship made a perfect sales promotion picture, which was precisely its mission. Some in Paris—led by the Elysée Palace—want to sell Mistral class ships to Russia, a venture […]

NATOSource

Jan 11, 2010

Russians “Dissatisfied with the Mood of Capitulation at NATO” HQ

By the New York Times

From the New York Times: The national selfishness of peace-loving Europeans is understandable. There is a persistent flow of bad news from Afghanistan — military losses, scandalous incidents involving NATO soldiers, terrorist activity and the suffering of civilians… [T]he ISAF operation in Afghanistan is the moment of truth for NATO. If the alliance does not […]

NATOSource

Jan 11, 2010

Stop France Arming Russia

By the Georgian Daily

From the Georgian Daily: “In providing Putin with the tools for rapid invasion of Georgia, Crimea and the Baltic countries,” writes French philosopher André Glucksmann in Le Monde, “Our message is clear: go ahead!” Such geopolitical autism—or cynicism—will tear at the fabric of NATO just as the alliance searches for common ground in Afghanistan and […]

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NATOSource

Jan 11, 2010

Can Madrid Reform the New Transatlantic Agenda?

By the European Voice

From the European Voice: [I]t was 15 years ago, during an earlier Spanish EU presidency, that the US and the EU signed the New Transatlantic Agenda (NTA), the most ambitious programme for US-European co-operation to date. Mirroring its stance in 1995, the Spanish government has announced that transatlantic relations will be a key focus of […]

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New Atlanticist

Jan 11, 2010

Who is Running Our Afghanistan Policy?

By Bernard Finel

In a recent report, Major General Michael T. Flynn, Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence in Afghanistan levels a damning indictment against the U.S. conduct of the war in Afghanistan.

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New Atlanticist

Jan 11, 2010

Yemen Latest Front in Mad Max War

By Arnaud de Borchgrave

Yemen, where al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has several hundred jihadi terrorists sheltered by anti-Saudi tribal chiefs, has been getting less than $70 million a year in U.S. assistance. Afghanistan, whence Arab jihadis decamped years ago, runs U.S. taxpayers $82 million a day. The would-be Nigerian suicide bomber Umaru Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, who tried […]

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NATOSource

Jan 8, 2010

Global Hacker Threat Comes from Russia?

By Russia Today

From Russia Today: Cyber attacks are now considered as dangerous as terrorism and nuclear proliferation. Russia and China are the most serious sources of cyber threats, according to a recent NATO report… A notorious ring known as the RBN, or Russian Business Network, was set up in St. Petersburg in the late 1990. As well […]

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