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...build up its forces in border areas now that it is free of the CFE treaty. Last month, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, who increasingly positions himself as Putin's hawkish potential successor, said that Russia would deploy its newly tested Iskander-M cruise missiles in is westernmost Kaliningradsky region, wedged among Poland, Lithuania and Belarus, unless the U.S. scraps its defense shield bases in Poland and the Czech Republic. Ivanov's threats only infuriated Poland and made Lithuania consider asking the U.S. for deploying its ABM on its soil as well. However, cruise and new MIRVED ICBM missiles...
...deadly game played by Musharraf ever since 9/11. Pakistan had nurtured the Taliban in the early '90s, and then actively helped it fight its way to power in Kabul. Not only was there a natural affinity between the ethnic Pashtun movement and Pakistan's own Pashtun communities in the westernmost provinces that had helped support the Afghan anti-Soviet jihad, but Pakistan saw the Taliban as a protector of its own regional interests, particularly in light of Indian support for its rivals in the Northern Alliance...
...Ceduna, the clean coastal town famous for its oysters, is home to the westernmost of the state's four roadblocks. "He's the bad bugger," says Provis' offsider, Brian "Flash" Hoffrichter, 63, brandishing a dried specimen of the Mediterranean variety (Ceratitis capitata), which is not much bigger than a grain of sand. A gruesome color photograph on the wall shows the damage its maggots can inflict on oranges. "Doesn't look real nice, does it?" Hoffrichter says. "Little things can do big damage...
...city is officially known, is still the ultimate responsibility of the Multi-National Force-Iraq, and no entrance is controlled by Iraqi forces alone. But Iraqi soldiers are the first line of defense for more and more of its acreage. The Amber Zone?s vague border begins in the westernmost tip of the Green Zone, where the Iraqi Ministry of Interior has taken over a complex. It then sweeps north and east, including the reopened al-Rasheed Hotel and the Convention Center where the Iraqi parliament meets, and past a warren of low buildings that houses two Iraqi army brigades...
...shifted Washington's foreign policy focus for the next three years almost entirely to the Middle East and the al-Qaeda challenge. China was an eager and willing ally against al-Qaeda, facing its own problems from Muslim separatist groups backed by al-Qaeda and the Taliban in its westernmost provinces...