UPI International Intelligence articles from August 2007

UPI International Intelligence archives from August 2007

Analysis: Arizona pilots border driver ID.
August 27, 2007... Byline: SHAUN WATERMAN WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Arizona is bidding to become the first state on the southern border to introduce new secure driver's licenses confirming the holder's citizenship, which can be used to enter the country...

Analysis: Extremist mob shocks Germany.
August 28, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Berlin has decided to boost its security and neo-Nazi prevention measures after a xenophobic incident in eastern Germany. German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned the incident as...

Analysis: Hitting Iran where it hurts.
August 28, 2007... Byline: CLAUDE SALHANI WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Amid continuing speculation of a pending U.S. attack on Iran's nuclear facilities or possible raids targeting Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps, a group of activists is asking Washington...

Iraq Press Roundup.
August 28, 2007... Byline: HIBA DAWOOD NEW YORK, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Al Mada reported Tuesday that 5 million Iraqis were expected to arrive in Karbala province to celebrate the birth anniversary of the 12th Shiite imam, Mahdi, who, according to Shiites...

Commentary: The next war?
August 29, 2007... Byline: ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE BERN, Switzerland, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- After a brief interruption of his New Hampshire vacation to meet President Bush in the family compound at Kennebunkport, Maine, French President Nicolas Sarkozy came away...

Walker's World: Turkey's big surprise.
August 29, 2007... Byline: MARTIN WALKER PARIS, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- It may be time for Europeans and Americans to forget what they though they knew about Turkey, since it appears that the conventional wisdom -- and the fears of the Turkish military that the...

Analysis: Turkey's EU bid strengthened?
August 29, 2007... Byline: STEFAN NICOLA BERLIN, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Turkey's new President Abdullah Gul has pledged to continue his country's pro-European Union course, raising hopes in Europe that Turkey's unique experiment of more Islam and more democracy...

Iraq Press Roundup.
August 29, 2007... Byline: HIBA DAWOOD NEW YORK, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- The Azzaman newspaper reports on the anger of the Mahdi Army, a Shiite militia loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, due to the "attacks on the Mahdi Army yesterday in Karbala from the Badr...

Analysis: India plans counterintelligence.
August 29, 2007... Byline: KUSHAL JEENA NEW DELHI, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- India has directed all its state governments to put in place a results-oriented counterintelligence mechanism to avert growing terror strikes. The anti-terror strategy that India has...

Outside View: Hill intelligence unreformed.
August 30, 2007... Byline: AMY ZEGART LOS ANGELES, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Congress finally won a two-year battle last week, forcing CIA Director Michael Hayden to declassify a summary of the Sept. 11 accountability review by the agency's inspector general. But...

Analysis: Coast Guard stops Hawaiian ferry.
August 30, 2007... Byline: SHAUN WATERMAN WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. Coast Guard stopped Hawaii's new Superferry from sailing this week after deciding it could not guarantee the safety of environmental protestors blocking the harbor on surfboards...

Iraq Press Roundup.
August 30, 2007... Byline: HIBA DAWOOD NEW YORK, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Azzaman reports on the development of yesterday's events after a bloody day in Karbala city ended with 50 people killed and more than 300 wounded in clashes. Accusations are the fight was...

Atlantic Eye: Liquidate them if necessary.
August 30, 2007... Byline: MARC S. ELLENBOGEN MOSCOW, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Forty-six years ago, in August 1961, the Berlin Wall was built. As a teenager I would walk along the wall wondering if -- but never quite believing -- it would fall. My father was...

Analysis: Would Iran retaliate to bombing?
August 31, 2007... Byline: DEREK SANDS WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Although U.S. airstrikes on Iran's nuclear facilities and military would likely overwhelm their forces, Tehran could still rely on a host of weapons, from covert terror campaigns to...

Outside View: Pressure Pakistan over Khan.
August 31, 2007... Byline: TRAVIS SHARP | MAX POSTMAN WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Pressuring a weakened strategic ally by reopening old wounds carries a certain amount of risk. But in the case of Pakistan, President Pervez Musharraf's current domestic...

Analysis: Few challenges for extremists.
August 31, 2007... Byline: ANWAR IQBAL WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Violent extremist groups are the most recognized face of Islam across the world, though they are a tiny minority within the Muslim community. But the methods they use -- suicide...

Analysis: Musharraf may bring general.
August 31, 2007... Byline: ANWAR IQBAL WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has made his last move in the endgame he is playing with the country's politicians -- threatening to hand over the keys to another general before he...

Iraq Press Roundup.
August 31, 2007... Byline: HIBA DAWOOD NEW YORK, Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Al Itijah Al Akhar newspaper in an editorial criticized Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government and the way it deals with the current situation in Iraq. "Some countries announce they...