Following allegations that U.S. special operations forces have captured, tortured, and killed Afghan citizens, Afghan president Hamid Karzai has ordered U.S. special forces out of Wardak Province. An Afghan government spokesman said that the allegations targeted Afghan citizens working with U.S. special operations, but all international special operations have been halted in Wardak, which is [...]
International Security Threats
Modifying Pakistan’s Behavior
Secretary Clinton’s Haqqani Diplomacy One of the main goals of statecraft and diplomacy is to affect behavior changes in state and non-state actors via the application of leverage. The timing of the decision to designate the Haqqani Network as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) at the State Department represents a case study in Secretary Clinton’s [...]
U.S. embassy, consulate attacked in Middle East on 9/11 anniversary
On the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a heavily-armed group of Islamists assaulted the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, killing four Americans, including the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens. At least one consulate building was looted and burned down. Muslim protestors also climbed the wall surrounding the U.S. Embassy in Egypt, capturing [...]
Iran using Iraqi airspace to supply Syrian military
Iran is using an Iraqi air corridor to ferry military supplies to the Syrian government. The U.S. pressured the Iraqi government to shut down such flights through their airspace earlier this year, but flights resumed in July. In addition to the flights, Iran reportedly has provided Syria with a cargo plane while Iranian operatives train [...]
Top US general wants no part in Israeli strike on Iran
Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stated that he does not want to be complicit in a possible Iranian military strike on Iran’s nuclear reactors. The general stated that an attack would undermine the international pressure on Iran to halt their nuclear weapons program. He also stated that Iran’s diplomatic window [...]
Iranian warships arrive in Syria, witness says
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_SYRIA_IRAN_WARSHIPS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-02-24-08-39-17
Aftermath of attack on ICE agents
Yesterday’s fatal attack on two U.S. ICE agents in northern Mexico (assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City) was more likely a to have been a cartel carjacking gone wrong than a targeted attack. Will the Obama administration do anything besides delivering meaningless platitudes? Casualties on our southern border already rival an actual battlefield [...]
Ariz. governor countersues federal government
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110211/D9LA8QG80.html
Senior US Marine: ‘Multiple platoons’ headed to Egypt
http://www.businessinsider.com/senior-us-marine-says-multiple-platoons-are-headed-to-egypt-2011-2#ixzz1DIOrrd00
China secretly builds aircraft carrier
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8307646/Concrete-evidence-of-Chinas-naval-ambitions.html
