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Jonathan Paris Discusses Syrian Crisis with France 24
Jonathan Paris, nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center, appeared on France 24 to discuss Russia's support for the Assad regime and what it means for a possible UN resolution against Syria.
Damon Wilson US Senate Testimony: Ukraine at a Crossroads
On February 1, Atlantic Council executive vice president Damon Wilson testified at a hearing of the US Senate Committe on Foreign Relations on the topic: "Ukraine at a Crossroads: What's at Stake for the US and Europe?"
Michele Dunne on US-Egypt Relations for NPR's Morning Edition
Relations between the US and Egypt have taken a downturn since Egyptian authorities raided the offices of seventeen nongovernmental organizations in December - three of them US-funded. Michele Dunne, director of the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, spoke on NPR's Morning Edition about the situation and what it means for US aid to Egypt.
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New Tactics in the Search for Bin Laden
Peter Cassata | September 10, 2008U.S. and Pakistani officials have said they are changing and intensifying their approach to hunting Osama Bin Laden in western Pakistan by increasing the use of unmanned drones. Thus far, there have been eleven missile strikes by Predator drones in 2008, up from only three last year. Obstacles to the search cited by officials include difficulties recruiting informers and a lack of attention due to the focus on Iraq.
Tensions between the two countries also exist over the stepped up campaign. Drones have successfully found and killed two important al Qaeda heads this year, but Pakistan has expressed concern over the higher civilian deaths the drone strikes bring.
According to the Washington Post, CIA efforts to capture Bin Laden were downscaled in 2005, but the foiled airplane bomb plot in London in August 2006 convinced officials al Qaeda's command structure was more preserved than previously thought. The CIA will increase the number of officers dispatched to Pakistan's tribal regions, and more special forces teams will be posted along the Aghanistan border.
