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ISW News Roundup - April 21, 2009
Apr 21, 2009 - Anonymous
Iraq
Associated Press - Iraq victims outraged at slow Blackwater exit, by Brian Murphy
Times Online UK - Iraqi detainee talks of 'horror film' experience at the hands of the US military, by Wail al-Hafoth
Times Online UK - Iraqi children trained by al-Qaeda to be suicide bombers, by James Hider
Associated Press - Suicide bomber in Iraq kills 3 civilians
RFE/RL - Obama's Iraq Envoy Pick Wins Key Senate Vote
Afghanistan and Pakistan
RFE/RL - Senior Afghan Opposition Figure To Back Karzai In Poll
Long War Journal - Pakistan targets dangerous Taliban commander, by BIll Roggio
BBC - Swat's Taliban expand operations, by Syed Shoaib Hasan
BBC - Jets target Pakistani militants, by M. Ilyas Khan
World
Iran
Associated Press - Ahmadinejad dropped Holocaust denial from speech
Associated Press - Iran hints US reporter's sentence may be eased, by Ali Akbar Dareini
Associated Press - Iran warns Israel not to attack nuclear sites
Israel
Associated Press - Israel wants to buy US missile defense system, by Steve Weizman
Turkey
Reuters - Turkish police detain 37 in al Qaeda raids
Qatar
LA Times - Qatar's ambitions roil Middle East, by Jeffrey Fleishman and Noha El-Hennawy
Jordan
Associated Press - Hardline Jordanian Muslims urge Pope to apologize
Kazakhstan
RFE/RL - Kazakhstan Snubs NATO Games In Support For Russia
US Weapon Systems
Wall Street Journal - Computer Spies Breach Fighter-Jet Project, by Siobhan Gorman, August Cole, and Yochi Dreazen