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• Quickie: Tent Problems with Team USA in Kabul?

  
  Diplopundit — Authority: 481
  Cover via AmazonMark Perry, a military and foreign policy analyst whose most recent book is Partners in Command, George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace has an interesting article in the December 10 issue of Asia Times (The day the general made a misstep). Some quite meaty blind quotes if you ask me, ...
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• State Fires ArmorGroup, But More Needs to Be Done

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 742
  While I was covering the McChrystal/Eikenberry hearings, the State Department finally fired ArmorGroup , the private security company hired to protect the U.S. embassy in Kabul. That company, as you may recall , liked to perform other duties as well, like physical and sexual harassment; not hiring more expensive ...
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• Pakistanis skeptical about a new one billion dollar US embassy

  
  Dr Nasir Khan — Authority: 440
  By Benjamin Joffe-Walt, THe Town Nine Times Posted on 19 Aug 2009 at 1:18am GMT A view of the US embassy in Islamabad The Pakistani government is suspicious of a nearly one billion dollar U.S. plan to expand the American embassy in Islamabad, a senior Pakistani official told The Media Line. Following ...
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• Wikipedia Founder to Give Talk in Buenos Aires

  
  The Argentine Post — Authority: 418
  Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales will give a talk in Buenos Aires this Friday at 10 a.m. The lecture, sponsored by the U.S. Embassy, will deal with “Wikipedia, Wikia and the future of free culture.” The talk will have simultaneous translation. For more information, click here . To register, call: 5252-0260 ...
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• Defense Nipple Licking

  
  The Vigilant Lens — Authority: 131
  This…this is where the Obama Administration draws the line.  Nipple licking and American tax dollars strained through ass hairs.Prosecuting our war criminals and CIA/General McChrystal torture teams?  Not so much.So, what passes for good news?  AmorGroup North America has lost its 189 million dollar contract for ...
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• Embassy Interview

  
  Professor VJ — Authority: 115
  While I was in Athens for the UNREALTIME exhibition , one of the sponsors, the U.S. Embassy, arranged for a short interview that I totally forgot about until someone brought it to my attention yesterday. The short interview is here (I like that its short as it requires me to say what I want to say as a kind of ...
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• Will the Afghanistan Civilian Surge Go Super Surge?

  
  Diplopundit — Authority: 481
  It looks like the much touted 974 figure is just a “down-payment” to the “total” civilian surge to Afghanistan. SRAP deputy Paul Jones is now talking about more civilian advisers to Afghanistan beyond the 974 expected to get there in early 2010. Ambassador Holbrooke’s deputy was over at the American ...
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• Pak religious party blames India, US for countrywide spate of terror attacks

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Islamabad, Dec. 7 (ANI): Jamaat-e-Islami leader Liaqat Baloch has alleged that the US and India were behind the series of terror attacks across Pakistan.“There are proofs of US and Indian involvements in terrors activities in the country but the rulers are bent on killing their own countrymen,” The News quoted ...
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• Mariculture for Pakistan

  
  PakPoint — Authority: 491
  By Phil Cruver (KZO Education)KZO has teamed with an interdisciplinary team of international scientists, ocean engineers, and educational professionals for introducing aquaculture to Pakistan.  This overview Education, Collaborative Research, and Technology Transfer for a Sustainable ... {PakPoint.com Copyrights ...
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• Maguindanao Massacre Incites Int’l Fury – CAUTION DUE TO PHOTOS

  
  tropicalpenpals.com — Authority: 130
  PHOTOS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS ARTICLE ARE NOTHING SHORT OF SHOCKING SO BE WARNED AND AWARE AS THEY DO HAVE DISTURBING SCENES. (Supplied by unknown source).2009 DECEMBER 3by expatphUnanimous Call for Immediate Justice over “this heinous crime”By ELGA D. REYESIn the ongoing saga of the Ampatuan town massacre, with ...
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• The Jerusalem Embassy Act and other pro-Israel political games

  
  JW Political Insider — Authority: 490
  Is this news, or just restating the obvious? This week President Obama invoked waive provisions of the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Relocation Act, which requires the State Department to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. U.S. policy has always been that the status of Jerusalem is a matter for negotiations ...
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• US Embassy in Khartoum has organised an HIV/AIDS awareness workshop for 700 IDP students in Khartoum

  
  Sudan Watch — Authority: 510
  From SRS - Sudan Radio Service December 4, 2009: (Khartoum, Sudan) – The US Embassy in Khartoum has organized an HIV/AIDS awareness workshop for 700 IDP students in Khartoum. Speaking to SRS during the workshop in Khartoum on Friday, the regional medical officer from embassy, Dr. Behzad Shahbazian, explained why ...
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• US Embassy Manila updates travel warning for Mindanao

  
  Ajay's Writings on the Wall — Authority: 507
  If there’s one thing in common that the US State Department (through the US Embassy) and the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office share, it’s the fact that their travel advisories to their citizens contain travel warnings for Mindanao. In a parallel post in Barrio Siete , I’ve pointed out how the travel ...
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• America Held Hostage (video)

  
  niacINsight — Authority: 474
  In the BBC documentary, “America Held Hostage”, Bahman Kalbasi tells the story of the Iran Hostage Crisis with accounts by American officials held at the American embassy for the 444 day ordeal. The documentary features footage from November 4, 1979 when students mobbed the embassy in about an hour’s time, by ...
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• Coming Soon - Virtual Tour of Iraq National Museum

  
  Diplopundit — Authority: 481
  General Peter Pace, Chairman and CEO of Google Inc. Eric Schmidt;Managing Director of Trident Capital Don Dixon andU.S. Ambassador Christopher Hill tourthe Assyrian Hall of the Iraq National Museum The US Embassy in Baghdad late last month announced that the CEO and Chairman of Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, and ...
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• 974 to Afghanistan for the Civilian Surge

  
  Diplopundit — Authority: 481
  Image via Wikipedia Last month, Jack Lew, the State Department’s Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources, visited Camp Atterbury-Muscatatuck Center for Complex Operations in Indiana and had a town hall. Here is part of what he said: “This is really important work. It’s really hard work. We have a lot ...
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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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• Ottawa fights U.S. Embassys ugly barriers

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 167
  Ottawa city councillors are fighting back against a set of ugly concrete and steel barriers erected outside the U.S. Embassy in 2001 to thwart terrorist attacks.
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• Top 10 Observations About President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan War Strategy Speech

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 439
  Following President Barack Obama’s a war strategy speech Tuesday night, myriad observations surfaced about the way forward for the United States military in Afghanistan.  Below are my Top Ten observations about that speech:1) It took three months for President Obama to come up with this;2) President Obama believes ...
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• US Consulate in Mazar-e-Sharif Moving Forward

  
  Diplopundit — Authority: 481
  Image via WikipediaThe US Embassy in Kabul has just announced that Ambassador Karl W. Eikenberry and the Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta, signed a new agreement under which the United States would lease an historic 1930’s hotel in Mazar-e-Sharif for use as the new ...
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