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Darfur: Grief Useless, Rhetoric Empty, Nothing Changed

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Q&A: History of Sudan’s Darfur conflict

The United Nations Security Council has approved a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force to replace the 7,000 African Union (AU) observer mission struggling to protect civilians in Sudan’s western province of Darfur.
The exact make-up and deployment date for this beefed up force is still to be determined.
In the meantime, [...]

US State Deptartment Resorts To “Lets Talk” Diplomacy

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State Dept. Tries Blog Diplomacy

The State Department, departing from traditional public diplomacy techniques, has what it calls a three-person, “digital outreach team” posting entries in Arabic on “influential” Arabic blogs to challenge misrepresentations of the United States and promote moderate views among Islamic youths in the hopes of steering them from [...]

Turkey Split With U.S. Over Kurds Imminent

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Premier Says Turkey Is Ready For Split With U.S. Over Kurds
By Molly Moore Washington Post
ISTANBUL, Oct. 12 — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that he is prepared for a rupture in relations with the United States if his government launches an incursion into northern Iraq in search of Kurdish [...]

American Taxpayers Rent Pakistan’s Army

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US renting Pak army for $ 100 million a month
14 Jul 2007, 0340 hrs IST,CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA,TNN

WASHINGTON: The United States is paying around $ 100 million a month for the deployment of 80,000 Pakistani troops on its border with Afghanistan ostensibly for the war on terrorism, a key US official revealed on Thursday. [...]

Baluchistan, Gateway To Iran, To Be Fenced

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Iran to wall off Baluchistan border - By  Kamal Hyder in Taftan, Baluchistan
Trade between Pakistan and Iran is flourishing, with goods worth millions of dollars passing across the border between the two countries. But the porous border has become a haven for smugglers, and a security headache for both sides.
Iran is building a controversial wall [...]

Baluchisatn/Balochistan: Backdoor To Iran

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Unrest simmers in Pakistan province By Kamal Hyder in Quetta, Baluchistan
Pakistan’s sprawling Baluchistan region is one of the world’s most remote areas and its hot, mostly barren, land encompasses the borders of three countries: Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The area has enormous reserves of natural resources - resources that the people of Baluchistan say [...]

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