USA
November 9, Aviation Week – (International) Proposed rules for exports protect stealth. The U.S. Presidential administration is proposing export control changes that would allow aircraft components to be more freely traded on the global market, while continuing to protect parts designed specifically for the military’s most stealthy aircraft, Aviation Week reported November 9. The move would modify the U.S. Munitions List for what is known as “Category VIII,” which covers aircraft. The change would free up generic parts, components, accessories, and attachments for export “regardless of their significance to maintaining a military advantage for the United States,” according to a November 7 notice in the Federal Register. Those parts would be transferred from the State Department-managed munitions list to a list governed by the Commerce Department. Source: http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id=news/asd/2011/11/09/01.xml&h eadline=Proposed Rules For Exports Protect Stealth&channel=defense
EUROPE
Special Report: Europe's North-South Divide on Infrastructure
ASIA
China Political Memo: Enforcing the Anti-Monopoly Law
AFRICA
Somalia: Top Al Shabaab Leaders Allegedly Killed In U.S. UAV Attack November 14, 2011
Senior leaders of Islamist militant group al Shabaab, including Ahmad Abdi Godane and Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, allegedly died in a U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) strike Nov. 13, a Somali government official said, Mareeg Online reported Nov. 14. The UAV strike targeted a compound in the lower Shebelle region, Somalia, where top al Shabaab leaders were meeting. An al Shabaab official denied the reports.
RUSSIA
NOTHING SIGNIFICANT TO REPORT
IRAN
Agenda: With George Friedman and Robert Kaplan on Iran
Dispatch: Countering Iran in the Covert World
IRAQ
Turkey: U.S. UAV Base Moved From Iraq November 14, 2011
A U.S. operation using four unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has moved its base from Iraq to Incirlik, Turkey, a Pentagon spokesman said Nov. 14, Reuters reported. Turkey requested the move because U.S. forces must withdrawal from Iraq by the end of 2011, the spokesman said. The UAVs have been performing reconnaissance missions against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and will continue to provide support to the Turkish military against the PKK along its southern border with Iraq, he said. The base’s location changed, but the mission and the support provided to Turkey will remain the same, the spokesman said.
ISRAEL
Kenya: PM Asks Israel For Help Countering Terrorism November 14, 2011
Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga asked Israeli President Shimon Peres to help the Kenyan police develop the capability to respond to al Shabaab attacks, according to a government statement Nov. 14, AP reported.
AFGHANISTAN
New Afghan Opposition Political Movement
MIDDLE EAST
Syria Set to Risk Homs Escalation
SOUTH OF THE BORDER
Risks and Rewards in Brazil's Favela Offensive
Mexico Security Memo: AFO Continuing To Lose Power in Tijuana
Special Interactive Report: Mexico's 2012 Elections
MISC
Geopolitical Calendar: Week of Nov. 13, 2011
Above the Tearline: Brush Passes and Dead Drops
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