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FPI Overnight Brief: September 2, 2010

Pakistani Taliban declared a foreign terror org

Triple bombings in Lahore kill over 2 dozen people

Kahl: Iraq has opportunity to be force for stability

Sen. urges Clinton to denounce trial of Iranian dissident

CENTCOM proposes $1.5 billion boost for Yemen forces

China intensifies build-up against Taiwan

Gartzke: Germany leads the way for European military reform

Mogadishu quiet after 10 days of intense fighting

Gillard gains new support from independent MP
FPI Overnight Brief: September 1, 2010

Operation New Dawn begins in Iraq

Direct talks between Israelis, Palestinians begin, today

Afghanistan’s largest private bank taken over

NATO will step-up campaign against Taliban, soon

Indian nuke deal flawed, undercuts relations w/US

PRC pushing 6 Party Talks resumption, region uninterested

Russia detains 150 in protests, including Nemtsov, again

Admin’s arms-technology control reform draws fire

WSJ Symposium asks, What is “Moderate Islam?”
FPI Overnight Brief: August 31, 2010

Petraeus completes guidelines for security transition

US has dramatically escalated Afghan air war

US targeting North Korean elite in sanctions

Iraqis arming themselves to prepare for pullout

Putin will likely run for President again in 2012

Mann: Does China have any friends in Obama Admin?

India passes final piece of civilian nuke agreement

10% of Mexican police fired to weed-out corruption

Outlines of real state forming in West Bank ahead of talks
FPI Overnight Brief: August 30, 2010

Obama doesn’t view himself as wartime president

Odierno: New Iraq gov at least two months away

Iran transferring assets out of European banks

Marines: Defeating Taliban may take 5 years

Karzai expected to try to eliminate term limits

Admin considering future engagement with DPRK

Pentagon contemplating preemptive strikes in cyberwarfare

Lugar: “Large majority” of Sen. GOP will back New START

Al-Shabaab claims brief control over strategic roadway
FPI Overnight Brief: August 27, 2010

Canadian Idol detained in homegrown terror plot

CIA paying many members of Karzai’s government

Surge tactics may not fully translate to Afghanistan

Pakistani Taliban may target int’l flood aid workers

Carter wins release of American detained in DPRK

Bork: Obama shouldn’t let Reset cover up Russia rights abuses

Iran capping “doubt- causing” humanities programs in unis

Admin halting prosecution of Cole bombing coordinator

Mexican drug cartels spreading to Central America
FPI Overnight Brief: August 26, 2010

Iran issues news blackout on Green Movement leaders

Obama will address nation on Iraq from Oval Office

Israel faces continued IAEA scrutiny of nukes

10% of Taliban reportedly killed or captured in 3 months

US aid package to Pakistan partly repurposed for flood aid

Kim Jong Il traveling to China, reportedly with his son

Georgia accuses Russia of deploying S-300s in S. Ossetia, too

FBI trying to track US muslims that trained w/AQAP

Zimmerman: Somalia’s TFG must survive and succeed
FPI Overnight Brief: August 25, 2010

US views AQAP as bigger threat than Pakistan-core

Conway: 7-2011 deadline may give Taliban “sustenance”

Pakistan floods disrupts US supply routes into Afghanistan

Egyptians wonder who is behind group boosting Gamal

Yanukovych calls for more powers to enact reforms

Wikileaks to release file on the CIA, today

State hails Obama’s domestic policies in UN rights report

al-Shabaab’s push to Somali presidential palace repelled

Ruling barring Wyclef Jean cannot be appealed
FPI Overnight Brief: August 24, 2010

Carter going to North Korea to rescue captive American

North Korean market reformer reinstated

Obama will deliver major Iraq address next week

Khamenei to Ahmadinejad: stop the infighting

Petraeus: Taliban’s momentum “reversed” in some areas

Kabul CIA station chief has key role in relations w/Karzai

Long road ahead to build-up Afghan sec. forces

Pakistanis aren’t aware of billions in U.S. aid

Russian opposition leaders face their day in court
FPI Overnight Brief: August 23, 2010

US talking to Turkey regarding sanctions on Iran

Odierno: Iraqi security forces are capable of handling job

Kerry: “Very active” efforts underway for peace w/Taliban

Pakistan captured Baradar to shut-down peace talks

Could the DPRK turn to collectivist rule?

Egyptian opp. parties urge Brotherhood to boycott ballot

3,000 rally to protest Putin, protect forest, rock out

Herman: Obama and Gates will re-hollow our military

al-Shabaab’s tactics increasingly mirror the Taliban’s
FPI Overnight Brief: August 20, 2010

Admin tells Israel that Iran nuke threat isn’t imminent

Taliban insurgency flaring up in Eastern Afghanistan

…As Coalition steps-up ops in Southern Afghanistan

Israelis, Palestinians reportedly close to resuming talks

Rademaker: New START supporters may kill treaty

Putin’s party shifting tactics for parliamentary elections

Australia faces prospect of minority government

Obama recess-appoints Amb. to El Salvador

Cardenas: Admin discovering Chavez won’t Reset

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