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November 19, 2008 02:34 PMSPAIN’S GUARDIA CIVIL SEIZES TERRORIST MANUAL ADVOCATING “SECRECY IN JIHAD”Spain’s Guardia Civil has released details of a terrorist manual discovered in the Catalonian home of Muhammad Mrabet, a M...
The Caucasus
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Russia Admits Rebel Fighter Activity in Chechnya
November 24, 2008 05:39 PMFaced with recurring reports of assaults and assassinations in Grozny and the rest of Chechnya, Russian government officials are being forced to admit that rebel fighter operations have become a reali...
Central Asia
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Tension Mounts Between Tashkent and Astana as Uzbekistan Slams the EAEC Door
November 21, 2008 03:09 PMUzbekistan’s recent decision to leave the Moscow-orchestrated Eurasian Economic Community (EAEC) hardly surprised anyone in the Kazakh Foreign Ministry who was familiar with Uzbek President Islom Ka...
China and the Asia-Pacific
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Transformations in China’s Soft Power toward ASEAN
November 24, 2008 05:13 PM
Among U.S.-led like-minded alliances, a nascent China policy position has been formulated based on the idea of “international socialization” [1]. The idea is to enmesh states in a compound network str...
Europe
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Polish, Georgian Presidents’ Motorcade Shot at from South Ossetia
November 24, 2008 04:12 PMAt dusk on November 23, machine-gun fire from the direction of a Russian checkpoint forced Presidents Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia and Lech Kaczynski of Poland to cut short a visit with Georgian r...
Latin America
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Brazilian and Russian Military Cooperation Deepens
November 21, 2008 03:05 PM
According to Russia's Economic Development Ministry, Russia is negotiating to supply helicopters to the Forca Aerea Brasileira (Brazilian Air Force, or FAB). The Ministry noted in a statement, "...
Middle East
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Kurdish Islamist Groups in Northern Iraq
November 25, 2008 10:10 AMA spokesman of the Kurdish arm of al-Qaeda in Iraq recently announced the group’s intention to eliminate Iraq’s Kurdish leadership: “To the two Kurdish puppets, Jalal Talabani and Masoud Barzani, I sw...
Russia
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Polish, Georgian Presidents’ Motorcade Shot at from South Ossetia
November 24, 2008 04:12 PMAt dusk on November 23, machine-gun fire from the direction of a Russian checkpoint forced Presidents Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia and Lech Kaczynski of Poland to cut short a visit with Georgian r...
South Asia
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India’s Troubled Northeast Region: The Resurgence of Ethno-Islamist Terrorism
November 25, 2008 10:08 AMThe security situation in India’s troubled northeast region plumbed new depths in October when two major terror incidents struck Manipur and Assam states. On October 21, nearly 17 people were killed i...
Turkey
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Turkey’s Gendarmerie: Reforming a Frontline Unit in the War on Terrorism
November 25, 2008 10:13 AM
Turkey’s paramilitary Gendarmerie, a frontline unit in the War on Terrorism, is about to undergo some of the greatest changes yet in its long history. The reforms call for a radical restructuring of t...
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