NSN Daily Update: 7/17/09 Posted by The National Security Network

What we’re reading

A top aide to exiled Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said the ousted leader was heading home Thursday to set up an alternative seat of government inside the country, setting up a  headquarters in a "final battle" against the coup leaders.

India and Pakistan agreed Thursday to increase communication and information-sharing in an effort to prevent terrorist attacks and discord between the two nations.

Japan's unpopular Prime Minister Taro Aso survived efforts within his own party to oust him ahead of elections next month.

Commentary of the day

Ehud Olmert in the Washington Post said the United States provides Israel with crucial security and economic aid while sketching out a path to achieving lasting peace in the region. Meanwhile, the Crown Prince of Bahrain Shaikh Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa asserts we need fresh thinking if the Arab Peace Initiative is to have the impact it deserves on the crisis that impoverishes Palestinians and endangers Israel's security.

The LA Times asserts that in the wake of Chechen human rights advocate Natalia Estemirova killing, President Ramzan Kadyrov's vow to oversee the investigation is a “cynical joke”.