CBS - U.S.: Terrorists after missing Libyan missiles , Oct 14, 2011

Throughout Libya, the hunt is on for the missiles and rockets that Qaddafi's fleeing forces left behind.

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BRUSSELS - Terrorist groups have expressed interest in obtaining some of the thousands of shoulder-launched missiles that have gone missing in Libya and the issue has become a priority for the Obama administration, a senior U.S.official said Friday.

Andrew J. Shapiro, Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, said Friday the missiles "could pose a threat to civil aviation."

"We know that terrorist groups have expressed interest in obtaining these weapons," he said, adding that the issue issue of securing the weapons was a priority for President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Libya was believed to have about 20,000 such missiles in its arsenals before civil war began in March, Shapiro said. Although many were destroyed by NATO air strikes, thousands are missing.

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LA TIMES - Libya revolutionaries have Surt in stranglehold, Oct 14, 2011

Libyan revolutionaries fire on remnants of resistance in Moammar Kadafi's hometown of Surt.(Mohamed Messara / European Pressphoto Agency / October 13, 2011)

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By Ruth Sherlock, Los Angeles Times

October 14, 2011

Reporting from Surt, Libya—

Fighters loyal to Moammar Kadafi engaged in a last-ditch battle Thursday from a single pocket of resistance in the former Libyan leader's besieged hometown.

Tanks manned by fighters allied with the transitional government fired relentlessly at pro-Kadafi forces pinned in a compact residential district of Surt close to the Mediterranean coast, sending dust and concrete into the air. Anti-Kadafi fighters with rifles moved into firing position, crunching over spent ammunition cartridges that littered the central garden plaza.

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THE GUARDIAN - Libya war reaches endgame with 100 loyalists left fighting, Oct 14, 2011

Rebel fighters celebrate after their forces capture a Gaddafi fighter during fighting in the centre of Sirte. Photograph: Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters

The two men are singing in the back of a pick-up truck, sitting on the rails, their legs resting on a blanket that seems oddly lumpy. Sticking out from beneath it are two pairs of feet, one bare, one wearing socks. They are the feet of two pro-Gaddafi fighters killed in the fighting in the coastal city of Sirte.

Thursday was a day of deaths on both sides. Government forces trying to enter the last pocket of Sirte held by pro-Gaddafi fighters were bogged down in a narrow street flooded with sewage and water.

Sirte is an unremarkable town, its importance inflated by the fact that the deposed Libyan leader was born nearby and counts its main tribe among his staunchest supporters.

But its fate is now being keenly watched around the world. The rebel government in Tripoli has declared – as UK foreign secretary William Hague told MPs in London – that its fall will mean the liberation of the entire country and trigger the start of a political process to build a new democracy.

THE GUARDIAN - Libya: Mutassim Gaddafi reported arrested - Oct 13, 2011

Muammar Gaddafi's son Mutassim is reported to have been arrested fleeing Sirte Photograph: AGP

8.22am: Welcome to Middle East Live. Muammar Gaddafi's son Mutassim is reported to have been arrested fleeing Sirte as the city appears to be on the brink of falling. But the report has not been confirmed by officials in Benghazi, and is being treated with caution for now after what turned out to be false reports about the arrest of two of Gaddafi's other sons during the fall of Tripoli. Here's a round up in more detail.

CNN News - Some analysts skeptical of alleged Iranian plot, Oct 13, 2011

Iranian clerics hold up anti-Saudi placards as they face riot policemen in front of the Saudi embassy in Tehran earlier this year.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• The alleged plot doesn't fit Iran's style, analysts say
• Iran stood to lose too much, and had easier targets to pursue, they say
• Such a desperate measure doesn't fit Iran's stature, former Bush adviser says
• Too many questions are unanswered for U.S. officials to implicate Iran at highest levels

Washington (CNN) -- Did an elite branch of Iran's military handpick a divorced, 56-year-old Iranian-American used-car salesman from Texas to hire a hitman from a Mexican drug cartel to assassinate the ambassador to Saudi Arabia by blowing up a bomb in a crowded restaurant in Washington?

U.S. officials say they are certain the bizarre plot against Ambassador Adel Jubeir was real.

But some analysts say they are not. They find it unlikely that the Iranian government, or legitimate factions within, would be involved in such a tangled plot.

Iran slams plot allegations

They cite five reasons why:

1. The alleged plot doesn't fit Iran's style

In the 32-year history of the Islamic Republic of Iran, its Quds Force -- the branch implicated in the alleged plot -- has never been publicly linked to an assassination plot or an attack on U.S. soil. In cases where Quds Force members have been accused of plotting attacks, they had gone to great lengths to cover their tracks and hire proxy groups of the highest caliber, like the Lebanese Hezbollah.

CBS News - Top Haqqani leader killed in Pakistan, Oct 13, 2011

A U.S. Air Force RQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle from the 432nd Wing out of Creech Air Force Base, Nev., takes off from the Rafael Hernandez Airport outside Aguadilla, Puerto Rico for a mission. (Tech. Sgt. James L. Harper Jr./USAF)

(AP) WASHINGTON - A top leader in the Haqqani network who played a central role in attacking coalition forces was killed Thursday in Pakistan, U.S. officials said.

Janbaz Zadran was killed in the Haqqani stronghold of Miram Shah in North Waziristan, Pakistan. The area reportedly was targeted in a drone strike the same day he died.

U.S. officials say Zadran's death makes him the most senior Haqqani leader in Pakistan to be taken off the battlefield. The officials said Zadran helped the Haqqani network orchestrate attacks on troops in Kabul and southeastern Afghanistan. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.

CNN News - Explaining the Iran-Saudi rivalry, Oct 13, 2011

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Editor's Note: Mohsen M. Milani is Professor of Politics and Chair of the Department of Government and International Affairs at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

By Mohsen M. Milani, Foreign Affairs

Yesterday afternoon, the U.S. government charged Mansoor Arbabsiar, a dual U.S.–Iranian citizen, and Gholam Shakuri, an alleged member of the Iranian Quds Force (a division of the Revolutionary Guards), with conspiracy to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, Adel Al-Jubeir, and to attack both the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington, D.C. Although the nature of Iranian government involvement remains to be seen, the indictment is just the latest story in the intricate cold war now developing between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

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