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December 2007

  • December 30th - - Sunday Times - That assassin's strike killed the West's foreign policy too NBM-dossier"It appears that Russia has decided that there is no longer a political reason to hold up the provision of fuel," said Mark Fitzpatrick, nuclear expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. "An important factor was probably the continuation of the International Atomic Energy Agency's work with Iran on questions about its past activities. The recent report from US intelligence in the National Intelligence Estimate [that Iran was not actively seeking a...
  • December 30th - - St Petersburg Times - Iraq's progress hard to define AP372 smallBut even the police chief says Basra -- Iraq's main port and second-largest city -- is a lawless nightmare dominated by Shiite militias that are better armed than the security forces. Islamic radicals have killed or chased out most of the city's Christians. And in the past three months, more than 40 women have been murdered for such "un-Islamic" behavior as not covering their hair. "Basra is an awful mess," says Toby Dodge, an expert on Iraq at London's International...
  • December 30th - - Agence France Presse - Le terrorisme islamiste n'a pas désarmé en 2007 StratSurveySmall2007Dans son rapport annuel, le prestigieux International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) de Londres a estimé que "la menace du terrorisme islamiste reste plus importante que jamais et semble empirer". Al-Qaïda a gagné en "capacité de résistance et d'adaptation (...) Depuis six ans, les Etats-Unis et leurs alliés luttent pour éradiquer cette menace et il est de plus en plus clair qu'ils n'y ont pas réussi".
  • December 30th - - Hindustan Times - Snaring the N-Jihadi NBM-dossierThis thesis has been supported by a recent study of A.Q. Khan's nuclear black market operations by the International Institute for Strategic Studies and a book, The Nuclear Jihadist, by Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins. Both conclude the fragmented nature of Pakistan's polity allowed Khan to sell nuclear secrets freely. "The diffusion of domestic political power among the troika of the President, Prime Minister and the Army Chief, obscured the command and control authority over the...