APSNet for 20060925
Austral Peace and Security Network (APSNet)
Twice weekly report from the Nautilus Institute at RMIT, Australia.
Monday 25 September 2006
- Indonesia: SBY Blasted For Slow Pace of Military Reforms
- Departing UN Envoy Warns Timor-Leste of the Danger of ‘Black Hole’ of Conflict
- Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat
- Total war: This is an Era of Difficult Choices that No One Wants to Make
- Pakistan ‘Not Doing Enough’ to Help Diggers
- India Pushes to the Brink on Uranium
- Fiji’s Military Leader Says He Will Not Be Silenced
- Army’s $500m Tanks in the Wars
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SBY Blasted For Slow Pace of Military Reforms, M. Taufiqurrahman, Jakarta Post, 2006-09-23
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is being accused of putting off long-awaited reforms of the powerful Indonesian Military (TNI). The President still depends too much on the military for his political survival and possible re-election, said Indonesian Human Rights Watch (Imparsial).
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Departing UN Envoy Warns Timor-Leste of the Danger of ‘Black Hole’ of Conflict, UN News Centre, 2006-09-22
Giving his final press conference after four years in Timor-Leste, the top UN envoy, Sukehiro Hasegawa, warned the country’s leaders that the tiny South-East Asian nation could be sucked into a “black hole” of conflict following the upsurge of violence earlier this year and amid continued tension, especially in the capital Dili.
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Hasegawa Calls for Japanese Participation in E.Timor, Bahrain News Agency (BNA), 2006-09-24
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Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat, Mark Mazzetti, NYT, 2006-09-24
The classified National Intelligence Estimate, “Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States”, attributes a more direct role to the Iraq war in fueling radicalism than in recent White House documents, according to officials in Washington who have read the final document. It is the first formal appraisal of global terrorism by US intelligence agencies since the Iraq war began.
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This is an Era of Difficult Choices that No One Wants to Make, Bruce Wolpe, Age, 2006-09-22
The US is fighting a half-hearted terror battle. It won’t face up to total war. There is, however, a gargantuan elephant in the room in the debate about Iraq, Iran, terror, the Middle East and the long war: that we have not made the choice to wage all-out military war commensurate with the all-out threat.
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Pakistan ‘Not Doing Enough’ to Help Diggers, Tom Hyland, Age, 2006-09-24
Australia has openly accused Pakistan, a key ally in the war on terror, of not doing enough to stop the Taliban using its territory as a base for attacks on Australian and allied troops in Afghanistan. Pakistan’s security agencies are believed to allow Taliban fighters to use Pakistani territory as a sanctuary and training base, but it is unusual for friendly foreign governments to express that suspicion openly.
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Bush Works to Defuse Fray between Allies Pakistan and Afghanistan, AP, IHT, 2006-09-22
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India Pushes to the Brink on Uranium, AAP, SMH, 2006-09-25
The Government of India has strongly urged Australia to change its nuclear policy and agree to supply it with uranium. M K Narayanan, the national security adviser to PM Manmohan Singh, said, “The US, Russia, the UK have recognised why we need nuclear energy and they are going out of their way to assist, and we would hope that Australia would see it.” he said. “A friend in need is a friend indeed – that’s the bottom line.”
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PM Says No to India on Uranium, AAP, SMH, 2006-09-25
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Fiji’s Military Leader Says He Will Not Be Silenced, RNZI, 2006-09-24
Fiji’s military commander says he will not give in to the government’s attempts to silence him. Commodore Bainimarama [said that] nothing is going to stop him or the military from speaking the truth. His comments came after the prime minister asked President Iloilo to seek a ruling from the Supreme Court on the constitutional role and responsibilities of the military.
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Fiji Government Paper Says More Than a Third of Fijians Live Below the Poverty Line, RNZI, 2006-09-22
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Draft Strategic Development Plan 2007-2011, Fiji Government, September 2006 [PDF]
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Army’s $500m Tanks in the Wars, Mark Dodd, Australian, 2006-09-23
Fiji’s military commander says he will not give in to the government’s attempts to silence him. Commodore Bainimarama [said that] nothing is going to stop him or the military from speaking the truth. His comments came after the prime minister asked President Iloilo to seek a ruling from the Supreme Court on the constitutional role and responsibilities of the military.
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M1a1 Abrams Main Battle Tank, GlobalSecurity.org, 2005-04-27
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M1A1 Abrams Integrated Management (AIM) Main Battle Tank, Chief of Army Media Briefing, 2004-08-04 [MS Word]
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