Panetta se llevará de Egipto a estadounidense detenido El Universal (Venezuela) El secretario de Defensa estadounidense, Leon Panetta, podría llevarse de su visita a El Cairo al ciudadano estadounidense Ilan Grapel, detenido como espía israelí, según trascendió hoy en la capital egipcia . Entre otros, Panetta se reunirá en El Cairo … y más

U.S. Confirms Attacks By Pakistani Military Units — Washington Examiner KABUL, Afghanistan — Pakistani military units fired shots at American and Afghan government troops along the Afghanistan border several times over the past year, in encounters the United States has downplayed but that illustrate the fraying relations between the countries, according to officials. On Wednesday, Afghanistan’s foreign ministry issued an angry warning to Pakistan after claiming that about 300 rockets had been launched across the Pakistani border into the Nuristan and Kunar provinces of Afghanistan, killing an unspecified number of civilians. Read more …. My Comment: Not surprising …. but still disturbing.

Majority Of IEDs Are Traced To Pakistan — USA Today WASHINGTON – Pakistan is the source of explosives in the vast majority of makeshift bombs insurgents in Afghanistan planted this summer to attack U.S. troops, according to U.S. military commanders. From June through August, U.S. troops detected or were hit by 5,088 improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the most for any three-month period since the war began in 2001. Those bombs killed 63 troops and wounded 1,234, Defense Department records show. Read more …. Update #1: U.S. military tracing majority of IED chemicals to Pakistan — Stars and Stripes Update #2: As Afghan IEDs Soar, US Commanders Blame Pakistan — Antiwar.com Update #3: The Decline Of The IED — Strategy Page My Comment: And these weapons are terribly effective.

Photo : Sheikh Abdul Razak Msherab is a Libyan cleric whose mosque in Tripoli has begun issuing unofficial gun permits in order to control the flow of loose weapons that have proliferated since the uprising against now-former leader Moammar Gadhafi. Hannah Allam/MCT Libyans Launch Grassroots Efforts To Stop Deadly Weapons Flow — Stars and Stripes/McClatchy News TRIPOLI, Libya – Alarmed at the deadly arsenals piling up in ordinary Libyan neighborhoods, self-appointed community leaders in Tripoli have begun issuing their own gun licenses and, in some cases, conducting raids to retrieve land mines and rockets stored in private homes. Qatar and other nations flooded Libya with arms during revolutionary forces’ six-month struggle to overthrow longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi. And when the NATO-backed former rebels finally toppled the regime just over a month ago, weapons depots in newly liberated territories were left unguarded, flung open for anyone in the market for anti-aircraft guns, heat-seeking rockets and mortar rounds. Read more …. My Comment: This is not going to be an easy task. Libya is a country made up of numerous tribes and ethnic communities who do not have a good history, and after Gaddafi, who would want to give up on the means to protect themselves.

NATO Concerned By Report Of Missing Libya Missiles — Reuters (Reuters) – NATO expressed concern on Monday about a report that thousands of surface-to-air missiles had gone missing in Libya, and said it was the responsibility of the new authorities there to ensure weapons stocks were properly controlled. The online edition of Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine reported on Sunday that the head of NATO’s military committee, Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, told German lawmakers in a confidential briefing last week NATO had lost track of 10,000 surface-to-air missiles that had been in Libyan army hands. Read more …. More News On Libya’s Missing Missiles NATO urges Libyan authorities to seize arms caches — AP Worry over ’10,000 lost missiles’ in Libya — Sydney Morning Herald Report: NATO Says 10K Missiles Missing In Libya — FOX News Around 5000 ground-air missiles disappear from Libya — Avionews Missing Libyan missiles a threat to civilian aircraft? — RT