NEWS CLIPS FROM ECONOMIC WARFARE INSTITUTE
MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
SAUDI ARABIA ITEM 1: GUARDIAN UK: Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal urged Rebekah Brooks to quit. Prince Alwaleed, Arab world’s richest man and News Corp’s second largest shareholder, delivered the coup de grace to Rebekah Brooks’s newspaper career http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jul/15/prince-alwaleed-bin-talal-urged-rebekah-brooks-to-quit
SYRIA ITEM 2: TIMES UK: Protests against Assad’s rule finally spread to Damascus http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/middleeast/article3095964.ece
LIBYA ITEM 3: NYT: Libya Rebels Get Formal Backing, and $30 Billion http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/16/world/africa/16libya.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper
HEZBOLLAH ITEM 4: Anna Mahjar-Barducci: Hezbollah in Mexico http://www.hudson-ny.org/2269/hezbollah-mexico
SOUTH ASIA
AL QAEDA ITEM 5: PIPELINENEWS: Muslim Outreach? Team Obama Moves To Release Convicted Al-Qaeda Financier Aldurahman M. Alamoudi From Prison http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page=doj7152011101.htm
ITEM 6: Amir Taheri: Al Qaeda Moving? A Strange Saudi Story http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/al_qaeda_moving_strange_saudi_story_W2H5yLdy2PVR1UgyfNYaYL
ITEM 7: WASHINGTON POST: Al-Qaeda’s terrorist tool kit now includes training manuals from Pakistani spy agency http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/al-qaedas-terrorist-tool-kit-now-includes-training-manuals-from-pakistani-spy-agency/2011/07/15/gIQAiHRDGI_blog.html
ITEM 8: WASHINGTON POST: Al-Qaeda fugitive in Yemen gets away again http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/al-qaeda-fugitive-in-yemen-gets-away-again/2011/07/15/gIQAdOzzGI_story.html
ITEM 9: Renny McPherson: Inside Al Qaeda’s hard drives. A stash of data yields up insights about the business of terrorism http://www.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2011/07/17/inside_al_qaedas_hard_drives/
EUROPE
GERMANY-RUSSIA ITEM 10: FINANCIAL TIMES: Germany and Russia to strengthen trade ties http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/929ae496-aefd-11e0-bb89-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1S0gTwZD5
EASTERN EUROPE
RUSSIA ITEM 11: RFE/RL: Casino Investigation Reflects Turf War In Russia. Although a handful of prosecutors have been targeted in the investigation, few believe it will go much further. http://www.rferl.org/content/russia_casino_investigation_corruption_turf_war/24267333.html
ISSUES
ENERGY ITEM 12: PUBLIC SERVE EUROPE: Germany’s nuclear decision leads to RWE-Gazprom deal http://www.publicserviceeurope.com/article/616/germanys-nuclear-decision-leads-to-rwe-gazprom-deal
ITEM 13: UPI: Gazprom growing impatient with Belarus http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2011/07/15/Gazprom-growing-impatient-with-Belarus/UPI-92511310731114/
ITEM 14: James Fallows: ‘Mountaineer’: Sobering News out of West Virginia http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/07/mountaineer-sobering-news-out-of-west-virginia/241996/
ITEM 15: JERUSALEM POST: ‘Israel painted as bad guy to speed Lebanese drilling’ http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?ID=228746&R=R1
SHARI’A BANKING/INVESTMENT ITEM 16: Nigeria: Boko Haram-Why We Are Attacking Banks-Sets Terms for Ceasefire http://allafrica.com/stories/201107140416.html
ITEM 17: RTTNEWS: Amana Bank Selects Oracle Flexcube Solutions http://www.rttnews.com/Content/BreakingNews.aspx?Id=1666271&SM=1
ITEM 18: Qudsia Iqbal Hashmi: Islamic Banking http://beta.epw.in/newsItem/comment/190143/
GLOBAL ECONOMY ITEM 19: FINANCIAL TIMES: Dual debt crises: The abyss that awaits http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/1de5c92e-af0f-11e0-bb89-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1S0gTwZD5
MONEY LAUNDERING ITEM 20: MIAMI NEW TIMES: Spanish Bros Allegedly Laundered $26 Million in Drug Money by Being Total Miami Badasses http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2011/07/brothers_allegedly_laundered_2.php
ITEM 21: SALT LAKE TRIBUNE: Utahns lost millions in alleged Ponzi scheme http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/money/52199356-79/lowrance-business-investors-money.html.csp
TERRORISM/TERRORIST FUNDING ITEM 22: GUARDIAN UK: Residents face demand for terrorism insurance. MP accuses London property management company of exploiting safety concerns to raise costs http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/jul/15/residents-terrorism-insurance
ITEM 23: LAW.COM: Judge Allows Exploration of Bank’s Role in Terrorism. Plaintiffs allege bank should have known transferred funds were being used for illegal activity because of various ‘red flags’ http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202501543028&Judge_Allows_Exploration_of_Banks_Role_in_Terrorism&slreturn=1&hbxlogin=1
COMMODITIES ITEM 24: FINANCIAL TIMES: No future for Chicago pork belly contracts http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/7a25aff0-af1f-11e0-bb89-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1S0gTwZD5
ITEM 25: NYT: China Plans to Release Some of Its Pork Stockpile to Hold Down Prices http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/16/world/asia/16china.html?ref=todayspaper
TAX EVASION/TRANSFER PRICING ITEM 26: EUROPEAN NETWORK ON DEBT & DEVELOPMENT: Support for tax dodgers: Alliance Sud criticises Switzerland’s double taxation agreements http://www.eurodad.org/whatsnew/articles.aspx?id=4602
CYBERWARFARE ITEM 27: Christopher Caldwell: Why Amazon’s tax-free landscape needs bulldozing http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/9dcfdd7c-af0b-11e0-bb89-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1S0gTwZD5
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