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(Afghanistan) Taliban kill 18 with car bomb attack on Nato troops
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/7737250/Taliban-kill-18-with-car-bomb-attack-on-Nato-troops.html
— Kabul suicide bomber kills 18 in attack on Nato convoy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8688635.stm
— Five Americans among 18 killed in Afghan suicide attack
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/05/18/afghan.blast/

Afghanistan: Taliban should join peace process in Afghanistan, says Afghan president
http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n220082

Afghanistan: Western troops must go, Taliban says
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2010/05/18/Western-troops-must-go-Taliban-says/UPI-91321274194686/

(Afghanistan) Grim milestone: 1,000 Americans dead
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37215944/ns/world_news-the_new_york_times/

Pakistan Taliban claim retaliatory bombing
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2010/0518/Pakistan-Taliban-claim-retaliatory-bombing
— Bomb blast kills 12 in Dera Ismail Khan
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/provinces/14-five-killed-in-dera-ismail-khan-blast-zj-08

(Pakistan/U.S.) Taliban warn North Waziristan Agency (NWA) residents against ‘spying’ for US
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\19\story_19-5-2010_pg7_11

(Pakistan) Audio tape implicates Hamid Mir: Khawaja’s son
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\19\story_19-5-2010_pg7_4
— Pakistan journalist linked to ex-ISI officer’s killing denies report
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Pakistan-journalist-linked-to-ex-ISI-officers-killing-denies-report/articleshow/5946450.cms

(Pakistan) UN provides Pakistan list of wanted terrorists
http://thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=28948

(Pakistan/India) Two Indian soldiers shot dead along LOC
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\19\story_19-5-2010_pg7_8
— India: Soldiers ‘shot dead by Pakistani troops’ in Kashmir
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.409132452

(U.S./Pakistan) Obama sends top aides to Pakistan over NY plot
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/03-obama-sends-top-aides-to-pakistan-over-ny-plot-ss-07

(U.S./Pakistan) ‘3 Pakistanis arrested in Boston not involved in terrorism’
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C05%5C19%5Cstory_19-5-2010_pg7_20

(U.S.) Times Square bomb suspect enters no plea
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/times-square-bomb-suspect-enters-no-plea/story-e6frfku0-1225868488776
— Times Square car bomb suspect appears in New York court
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/US/Times-Square-car-bomb-suspect-appears-in-New-York-court/articleshow/5947369.cms
— Shahzad appears in Manhattan federal court today for the first time since his arrest two weeks ago, prosecutors said.
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/12-suspected+times+square+bomber+to+appear+in+ny+court—bi-05

(U.S.) Times Square Car Bomb: Shahzad planned to hit four other US targets: Report
— TOI: “Other locations that he intended to attack were Rockefeller Center, a Grand Central Terminal, the World Financial Center and the Connecticut headquarters of defence contractor Sikorsky, the channel quoted the source as saying.”
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/US/Shahzad-planned-to-hit-four-other-US-targets-Report/articleshow/5945399.cms
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/18/times-square-bomb-suspect-multiple-targets

(U.S.) NYC: Bail denied for accused al-Qaida aide Sabir Hasanoff
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/05/18/Bail-denied-for-accused-al-Qaida-aide/UPI-66251274188916/

(U.S.) US Intel Agencies Could’ve Stopped the ‘Underwear Bomber,’ New Senate Report Says
Information Fell Through the Cracks and Mistakes Were Made
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/underwear-bomber-couldve-stopped-senate-report/story?id=10681367

(U.S.) CA Ports To Train For Terrorism Attacks
http://www.kcra.com/news/23596055/detail.html

(UK/Pakistan) Terrorism suspects allowed to stay in UK
— Pakistani students arrested in plot on Manchester, released due to lack of evidence, allowed to stay in UK
— Abid Naseer and Ahmad Faraz Khan
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/19/2903295.htm?section=justin
— Express: “Al Qaeda pair plotting bomb attack are allowed to stay in Britain”
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/175974/Al-Qaeda-pair-plotting-bomb-attack-are-allowed-to-stay-in-Britain

(Iran) Russia, China agree on Iran sanctions, says Hillary Clinton
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/US/Russia-China-agree-on-Iran-sanctions-says-Hillary-Clinton/articleshow/5947030.cms
— World’s powers agree ‘strong draft’ sanctions against Iran
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7737665/Worlds-powers-agree-strong-draft-sanctions-against-Iran.html

Iranian assassin released from French prison amid ‘deal’ claims
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7738360/Iranian-assassin-released-from-French-prison-amid-deal-claims.html

(Lebanon) Hezbollah’s ‘Disneyland’
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_528020.html

Lebanese Journalist Criticizes Indifference to Terror Attacks in Iraq
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4179.htm

(Iraq) 62 Al Qaeda men get death sentence in Iraq
http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/636622/cs/1/

Iraq: Former prisoners ‘becoming Al-Qaeda leaders’
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.411141523

(Somalia/U.S.) American Jihadi Rapping for Recruits
— ABC: “Abu Mansoor al-Amriki, the American jihadist based in Somalia, has developed a new and unusual approach to recruiting Western Muslim recruits: hip-hop. “
— “Over the past year Amriki, whose real name is Omar Hammami, and who was born to a Syrian father and Southern Baptist mother in Alabama 26 years ago , has released a series of five rap songs over the internet extolling the virtues of jihad and condemning America’s presence in Muslim countries.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/american-jihadi-abu-mansoor-al-amriki-rapping-recruits/story?id=10669408

(South Africa/Iraq) World Cup bomb ‘plot’ was just an idea, says al-Qaida accused
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/18/al-qaida-world-cup-plot-denied

(Africa) U.S. trains Africans to fight al-Qaida
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2010/05/18/US-trains-Africans-to-fight-al-Qaida/UPI-48891274198423/

Yemen: Somali pirates sentenced to death for brutal hijackings
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.411544206

(Russia) ‘Three police, one guerrilla killed in Caucasus’
http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/three-police-one-guerrilla-killed-caucasus

Sweden: Gothenburg man arrested over Somali terror plot
http://www.thelocal.se/26716/20100518/
— Man arrested for plotting terror attack
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2010/05/sweden-man-arrested-for-plotting-terror.html

France arrests suspected militants over jail break plot
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\19\story_19-5-2010_pg7_6
— 14 men arrested suspected of plotting prison break
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7737760/14-men-arrested-suspected-of-plotting-prison-break.html

Turkey: Iran nuclear swap offer shows ‘vision’
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/05/18/iran.nuclear/

(Thailand) Troops, military vehicles gather near Bangkok protest site
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Rest-of-World/Troops-military-vehicles-gather-near-Bangkok-protest-site/articleshow/5947262.cms

Other News:

(UK) Radical Islamic preacher set to speak at East End conference - Dr. Bilal Philips
http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/content/towerhamlets/advertiser/news/story.aspx?brand=ELAOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsela&itemid=WeED18+May+2010+14%3A31%3A19%3A840

(UK) Abu Hamza’s son admits joining a violent demonstration — Yasser Kamel - in front of Israel embassy
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/135953/Abu-Hamza-s-son-admits-joining-a-violent-demo/

(UK) “The Blunders of MPAC”
http://hurryupharry.org/2010/05/18/the-blunders-of-mpac/

Nigerian MP quizzed on marriage to 13-year-old Egyptian girl
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Rest-of-World/Nigerian-MP-quizzed-on-marriage-to-13-year-old-Egyptian-girl/articleshow/5946911.cms

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) directs ISPs to block Facebook link
— regarding “Draw Muhammad Day” - May 20
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\19\story_19-5-2010_pg7_7

German girls held hostage for year rescued in Yemen
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/yemen/7736518/German-girls-held-hostage-for-year-rescued-in-Yemen.html

Swedish Centre Party Politician Ove Sviden,: Jews behind 9/11 and Holocaust
http://www.thelocal.se/26654/20100515/

(France) Burka rage as female lawyer rips veil off Muslim woman in French clothes shop
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1279349/Burqa-rage-female-lawyer-rips-veil-Muslim-woman-French-clothes-store.html

(Belgium) Muslim protest at Belgian veil law
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0519/1224270655012.html

(Belgium) Saudi Columnist: Brussels Increasingly Looks Like Any Great Middle East City; ‘In Years to Come, [Muslims in Europe] Could Only Grow In Numbers, Coming... In Droves’
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4182.htm

(Spain) Catalonia: Town to debate veil ban
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2010/05/catalonia-town-to-debate-veil-ban.html

(U.S./Lebanon) Miss USA Hailed by Lebanese Hometown — But No Love From Hezbollah
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/05/18/miss-usa-hailed-lebanese-hometown-love-hezbollah/?test=faces

(U.S.) California: San Diego Cab Driver Attacked After Saying Islamic Prayer
http://www.10news.com/news/23586275/detail.html

(Saudi Arabia) From Car to Donkey: One Saudi Woman’s Campaign for the Right to Drive
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4181.htm

Against Totalitarianism News:

S. Korea: North responsible for warship attack
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37215526/ns/world_news-washington_post/

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Middle East and North Africa
The United Nations (UN) has warned that food shortages in Yemen could give rise to
further unrest or mass migration.2 The situation is further exacerbated by insufficient
donor funds for the UN World Food Program (WFP) which has quite extensive
operations in the country. Approximately 3.4 million Yemenis require food aid but
because of the budget cuts, only 475,000 people are getting rations; half of whom are
people who have been displaced by the fighting between government troops and rebels in
the north.3 (Tags: internal conflict, situational awareness, supply chain)

Sub-Saharan Africa
Meanwhile in Chad, the WFP requested the government to help protect food convoys, aid
workers and civilians once the peacekeeping team withdraws from the country on 16
May 2010.4 The peacekeeping team MINURCAT would wind down its mission and thus
the Chad government has the responsibility of protecting civilians.5 The MINURCAT
and the Chad police provide armed escorts for UN convoys which delivers food rations
which are targeted by frequent car-jackings by armed bandits, especially in the lawless
eastern part of the country, near the Sudan border. The WFP provides food rations to
250,000 refugees from Darfur Sudan and 160,000 internally displaced Chadians.6 The
progressive withdrawal of the MINURCAT gives rise to the possibility of a security
vacuum which could affect food rations and other humanitarian operations in the country.
(Tags: internal conflict, situational awareness, supply chain)
2 “Hunger in Yemen could spark unrest, exodus”, Reuters, 4 May 2010,
http://alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE64310O.htm
3 Ibid
4 “Chad must protect convoys in food crisis”, Reuters, 6 May 2010,
http://alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LDE6451MB.htm

http://www.pvtr.org/pdf/CT%20Security%20Reponse/03-09May10/Agriculture&Food-03-09May10.pdf