– Iran displayed what its military described as a CIA stealth drone, representing a potentially significant intelligence blow for the United States.
– Reuters reports that Russia’s top social networking site yesterday rejected a request by the Federal Security Service “to block opposition groups from using it to organize street protests accusing the authorities of rigging this week’s election.”
– Pakistan’s director general of military operations says the NATO air strike that killed 24 Pakistani troops last month was a “pre-planned conspiracy” and warned that Pakistan will deploy an air defense systems along the border to prevent further attacks.
– The CIA drone program will face legal challenges by human rights groups in Pakistan, Europe and the U.S. who seek to hold U.S. officials responsible for human rights violations and civilian deaths resulting from drone strikes.
– Differences over tactics and strategy are causing divisions between the political and armed factions of Syria’s opposition movement and are weakening the fight against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
– Turkey’s ambassador to the U.S. said the Eurasian country is committed to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. “Even if one day you say we accept Iran, you understand Iran having nuclear weapons, we will be against it,” Ambassador Namik Tan said. “It’s as simple as that.”
– The Air Force expressed regrets yesterday “for any grief to surviving family members caused by a previous mortuary practice in which incinerated partial remains of service members were deposited in a landfill.”
– The Army will cut 8,700 civilian positions next year because of decreased funding levels in the 2012 budget.
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