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• Pakistani Doctor Jailed for Helping CIA in Bin Laden Hunt VOA 23 May 2012
• World Powers Present Iran With Nuclear Concerns RFE/RL 23 May 2012
• Iran, World Powers Trade Proposals at Nuclear Talks VOA 23 May 2012
• Iran, Baghdad talks & Khamenei Fatwa IRNA 23 May 2012
• Six Dead in Syria, Government Shelling Intensifies VOA 23 May 2012
• Combined Force Detains Taliban Leader AFPS 23 May 2012
• DOD Combats Counterfeit Parts Threat AFPS 23 May 2012
• US drone strike kills 5 in North Waziristan IRNA 23 May 2012
• F-35B lifts off for first flight at Eglin USMC News 23 May 2012
• Egyptians Vote in Historic Presidential Election VOA 23 May 2012
• What Is At Stake In Egypt's Presidential Election? RFE/RL 23 May 2012
• UK-Saudi Arabia deal on officer and aircrew training UK MOD 23 May 2012
• Indian Aircraft Carrier Sea Trials Postponed RIA Novosti 23 May 2012
• Russia Test Fires New Ballistic Missile RIA Novosti 23 May 2012
• Russia Turns on New Missile Warning Radar RIA Novosti 23 May 2012

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Situation Report: Expert analysis, briefings and commentary from across the political spectrum. The U.S.'s Somalia policy: Time for a Change. by James Jay Carafano, 22 May -- "Somalia is well known as a lawless, anarchic haven for terrorism and piracy. Since the events known as "Black Hawk Down" in 1993, the U.S. has been hesitant to become involved in Somalia. ..." Lousy joke of the week: Pentagon apparatchiks do the China Peril thing by George Smith, 18 May -- "While the rest of the country has gone to Hell over the last ten years, the Pentagon has been untouched. While unemployment and outsourcing of jobs to China surged, the US military budget ballooned. ..." White, right wing and paranoid is a terrible way to go through life by George Smith, 16 May -- "Not a week goes by that my news tab doesn't have a few stories on the American survivalist movement, courtesy of the presence of doomsday electromagnetic pulse references in all such pieces. The homespun country paranoids are now firmly in the US entertainment mainstream, notably in newspapers, almost purely because of the semi-success of one of the crummiest television reality series ever, National Geographic's Doomsday Preppers...." Questions After the First U.S. Bank Takeover by a Chinese State-Controlled Company by Charles Wolf, Jr., 15 May -- "By Charles Wolf, Jr., Brian Chow, Gregory Jones, and Scott Harold Last week (May 10), the Federal Reserve approved an application from the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) to buy up to 80 percent of the U.S. subsidiary of the Hong Kong-based Bank of East Asia, which operates 13 branches in New York and California. ..." Republic totters on news of innovative underwear bomb by George Smith, 8 May -- "Al Qaeda's barrel-scrapers continue to be portrayed as capable of posing a huge threat to this country. Now virtually destroyed by US operations, a handful of al Qaeda pismires in a couple of dirt poor countries continue to putter with things that don't work. ..."