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GMF Celebrates 40th Anniversary with Berlin Gala May 22, 2012 / BerlinThe German Marshall Fund celebrated its 40th anniversary with a gala dinner at eWerk, an event space, in Berlin on Tuesday, May 22.
GMF Transatlantic Fellow Kati Suominen joined C-SPAN's Washington Journal to discuss the purpose of the G8 and NATO summits and what impact the outcomes of the meetings will have.
In this podcast, GMF Senior Transatlantic Fellow Bruce Stokes interviews Ken Endo, a Professor at Hokkaido University School of Law in Japan, about the impact of the euro-debt crisis on Asia. Endo gives his view on changes to banking regulations and how Japan should take a role in shaping future regulations for the global financial sector.
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Killing of Osama bin Laden has rehabilitated reputation of U.S. Government, officials
May 04, 2011 / Dhruva Jaishankar
Asian News International
The dust has already started to settle after President Barack Obama's dramatic announcement on Sunday evening that U.S. special forces had killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a late-night raid on a compound outside Abbottabad.
The period since the formal announcement has produced a sizeable - if constantly revised and occasionally conflicting - body of detail about the operation to capture the world's most recognizable terrorist.
In the process, the reputations of several individuals and entities have been rehabilitated.
First of all, the CIA is back. An important feature of the process that culminated in bin Laden's whereabouts being identified was the centrality of human intelligence, or humint as it is known in intelligence parlance.
The key to bin Laden's invisibility was his avoidance of phones and the Internet for communication, and American intelligence officials understood that his courier network could be the only way to track him down.
Read the full article here.
