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GMF celebrates its 40 year history and Founder and Chairman, Dr. Guido Goldman at Gala Dinner May 09, 2013 / Washington, DCGMF held a celebratory gala dinner at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, Wednesday May 8.
In this podcast, GMF Vice President of Programs Ivan Vejvoda discusses last month's historic agreement to normalize relations between Kosovo and Serbia.
Anchor Elaine Reyes speaks with Andrew Small, Transatlantic Fellow of the Asia Program for the German Marshall Fund, about Beijing's potential role in brokering peace between Israel and Palestine
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.
