NSN Daily Update 1/30/09 Posted by The National Security Network

Today we released our Memo to the Community: The Way Forward in Iraq, which you can find here.

What We’re Reading

Three Sunni candidates in Iraq’s provincial elections were assassinated today.  The elections face a particular test in Mosul.  Security tightens for the vote.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan walked out of a debate on Gaza with Israeli President Shimon Peres at Davos.

4.8 million Americans are on unemployment, a record high.  U.S. GDP fell 3.8% in the last quarter, however economists had predicted worse.  Exxon Mobile posted record-high profits, for the year despite the decline of oil prices in the fall.

In France, hundreds of thousands of people protest President Nicolas Sarkozy’s economic policies.  British energy workers walk out.

North Korea canceled a nonaggression pact and all other peace agreements with South Korea.

The U.S. military reported a record-high number of suicides this year, for the second year in a row.  The military is also investigating two West Point suicides.  Electric shocks still occurred through 2008 at bases in Iraq.  The Army ordered a recall of defective body armor.

President Obama selected Lt. General Karl W. Eikenberry to be the ambassador to Afghanistan.

The U.S. removed Kashmir from envoy Richard C. Holbrooke’s portfolio, a victory for India.

A Guantanamo judge denied President Obama’s request for a trial delay.

The opposition party in Zimbabwe agreed to a power-sharing plan.

Commentary of the Day

Philip Stephens examines the tasks of President Obama’s special envoys.

P.W. Singer looks at emerging battlefield technology.

Iqbal Z. Quadir proposes that the U.S. should dedicate foreign aid to entrepreneurs instead of to bad governments.

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