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...Great Game, the British fought there to prevent the Russians from invading India. In the 1980s, Americans equipped mujahedin to bleed the Soviet Union dry. In the civil war following the 1989 Soviet withdrawal, Pakistan backed the Taliban, a fundamentalist faction fostered in its own religious seminaries, to counter Indian influence in the rival Northern Alliance. When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1994, Pakistan was one of only three nations to recognize their government. The Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI), Pakistan's clandestine services, then sent militants hardened in the Soviet war to Indian-administered Kashmir in order to wage...
...After a further act of sabotage was reported Monday in southwestern France, a decision was made to group individual investigations under the direction of France's centralized counter-terror operation in Paris, which collated all the information police and intelligence services had related to the inquiries. Within 24 hours, officials had narrowed their scope down to a group of "autonomous anarchists" whose radical positions and increasingly restless activity - including protesting during a G8 summit in Poland last year - had led French intelligence services to place some of its members under surveillance...
...France's counter-terrorism organizations may not have seen the last of belligerent behavior by extreme leftist groups that have largely been dormant since Action Directe was smashed in 1987. "The economic and financial crisis the world is now experiencing is a dream come true to the extreme-left, especially with mainstream leftist political parties unable to mount any real opposition to ruling conservatives," Jacquard notes. "That brings the possibility of social unrest radical leftists may seek to exploit - or even provoke through violence of their...
...Obama administration that reinserts itself into the UN instead of overtly acting against its wishes would strengthen this international body significantly. Instead of the UN and UN peacekeeping troops viewing themselves as acting counter to the will of the United States, they would see themselves as carrying out the will of the more truly United Nations...
...said to be about 50-50 that Obama will ask Defense Secretary Robert Gates to remain in his position, at least for the first year of the new Administration. Backers of such a move say the new commander-in-chief could use the continuity Gates would offer, but critics counter that keeping him on could delay Obama's promised U.S. troop pullout from Iraq and fail to signal a clear break from Bush's policy...