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• Taliban militants paid $150 a month to give up fighting RIA Novosti 27 Nov 2011 -- Members of the radical militant group Taliban who agree to give up fighting are being paid 100 British pounds (over $150) a month and will be allowed to keep their guns under a new initiative to end the insurgency, The Sunday Telegraph reported.
• Afghan President Says Second Troop Transition to Begin Soon VOA 27 Nov 2011 -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai says his nation's forces will soon take charge of security in more than half of Afghanistan, marking the second step of a transition that will see NATO combat forces leave by 2014.
• Afghan Officials: Pakistan Fired First in NATO Attack VOA 27 Nov 2011 -- Afghan officials say NATO and Afghan forces patrolling near the Pakistan border came under fire before they called in the NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers on Saturday.
• Clinton, Panetta Monitor Reports of Pakistan Border Incident AFPS 27 Nov 2011 -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta are closely monitoring reports of a deadly cross-border incident in Pakistan yesterday, Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt. John Kirby said.
• Pakistan Orders US Out of Airbase VOA 27 Nov 2011 -- Pakistan has ordered the United States to move out of an airbase on its territory, after shutting down NATO's two main overland supply routes into Afghanistan. Popular anger is mounting in Pakistan after NATO's killing of 24 Pakistani military personnel in a cross-border airstrike Saturday.
• Pakistan conveys anger at NATO raid to Clinton IRNA 27 Nov 2011 -- Pakistani foreign minister conveyed to the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the sense of rage of Pakistanis at the loss of 24 soldiers due to the NATO/ISAF attacks on a Pakistani post in Mohmand Agency tribal region, the Foreign Ministry said.
• Pakistan asks U.S. to vacate key air base IRNA 27 Nov 2011 -- Pakistan top civilian and military leadership Saturday night decided to ask the United States to vacate a key airbase in the country's southwest after the NATO fighter jets and helicopters killed 28 Pakistani soldiers in the tribal region.
• Pakistan summons US envoy over NATO strikes IRNA 27 Nov 2011 -- Pakistan Saturday summoned the U.S. ambassador to the Foreign Ministry and lodged a formal protest with him over the NATO helicopters' strike on border posts, which killed 28 soldiers, the Foreign Ministry said.
• Pakistan army chief condemns NATO strike IRNA 27 Nov 2011 -- Pakistan Army Chief Saturday condemned strikes by NATO helicopters which killed 28 troops in the country's tribal region near the Afghan border, the army said.
• Pakistan President: NATO attacks unacceptable IRNA 27 Nov 2011 -- President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday said that NATO attacks in Pakistani territory are unacceptable, Presidential spokesman said.

Defense Policy / Programs

• USS Stethem Arrives in Timor Leste NNS 27 Nov 2011 -- Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem (DDG 63) arrived in Dili, Timor Leste Nov. 27, for a port visit during their tour of the western Pacific.

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• Arab League adopts Syria sanctions RIA Novosti 27 Nov 2011 -- The Arab League approved on Sunday sanctions against Syria in the latest bid to dissuade the Assad regime from its continuing crackdown on dissent.
• Arab League Approves Sanctions Against Syria VOA 27 Nov 2011 -- Arab League foreign ministers, meeting in Cairo, agreed Sunday to impose a series of biting economic sanctions on Syria, after Damascus failed to accept an Arab plan to send monitors in response to its deadly crackdown on an opposition uprising. The ministers will meet again next Saturday to review the effects of their action.
• Hamas vows to continue armed fight against Israel RIA Novosti 27 Nov 2011 -- Palestinian radical group Hamas has denied a recent media report claiming that it is ready to stop armed resistance to Israel.
• As Congolese prepare to vote, Ban calls for peaceful and secure elections UN News Centre 27 Nov 2011 -- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged politicians and voters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to ensure that tomorrow''s presidential and parliamentary elections take place as peacefully and smoothly as possible.
• Provokers Will Have to Pay Dearly: KCNA Commentary KCNA 27 Nov 2011 -- An extremely grave political and military tension has prevailed on the Korean Peninsula.
• US Forces Accused of Slandering DPRK KCNA 27 Nov 2011 -- The nominee for assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Defense, told at a recent Senate Armed Services Committee hearing that the DPRK poses a serious and direct threat to the U.S.' allies in the region.
• KPA Soldiers Demand Tougher Counteraction to Enemies' Provocation KCNA 27 Nov 2011 -- Soldiers of the Korean People's Army are raising their demand for tougher counteraction.

News Reports

• Egypt Protests Continue as Military Warns Crisis Must End VOA 27 Nov 2011 -- Protesters demanding the formation of an interim civilian government gathered in central Cairo Sunday, as Egypt's military ruler warned of 'extremely grave' consequences if the country's current political turmoil does not end quickly.
• Yemeni Shi'ite Rebels Attack Sunni Targets in North, 21 Killed VOA 27 Nov 2011 -- Yemeni security and tribal sources say Shi'ite rebels have attacked a Sunni Islamist school and other sites in the northern province of Saada, killing at least 21 people and wounding about 50 others.
• Defense minister: Iranian nation can never be threatened IRNA 27 Nov 2011 -- Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi said the Iranian nation can by no means be threatened because its biggest value is Jihad (holy war) in the path of the Almighty.
• IR Iran has full control over CIA, Mossad plots: Moslehi IRNA 27 Nov 2011 -- Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi said on Sunday that the Islamic Republic of Iran has thorough information about the deceived people who cooperate with the US and Israel and it will provide comprehensive information in this respect soon.
• President: Iran is not seeking nuclear bomb (part 2) IRNA 27 Nov 2011 -- ... Responding to a question about west new sanctions against Iran, the president said that when a nation is seeking progress and development, they should try to achieve their goals by overcoming problems and difficulties.
• President: Iran is not seeking nuclear bomb (part 3) IRNA 27 Nov 2011 -- … Answering a question about China and Russia's position on the sanctions against Iran, President Ahmadinejad said that China and Russia, like us, cooperate with other countries, but they do not ignore their own national interests.
• President: Iran is not seeking nuclear bomb (part 4) IRNA 27 Nov 2011 -- … President Ahmadinejad said Iran has interaction with all countries, except the Zionist regime and the USA, 'because our diplomacy is upon interaction with others'.
• Military attack on Iran, not an easy job: Ahmadinejad ISNA 27 Nov 2011 -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Zionist regime’s ambition is to launch an attack on Iran but it knows that practicing such action is not an easy job.
• 'Abandoning Taiwan' not mainstream U.S. opinion: President Ma CNA 27 Nov 2011 -- President Ma Ying-jeou has said that a 'ditch Taiwan' proposal that has been bubbling up in United States academia recently was not mainstream opinion in the U.S.