That has led some security analysts like Fred Burton of the Austin, Texas-based global intelligence company Stratfor to question whether President Calderon can win this war.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

A Pentagon spokesman says most of the Marines will be based on three ships anchored offshore, with a small security force protecting equipment and supplies onshore at night.

VOA: standard.2010.01.19

Philip Mudd,former chief of the FBI's National Security Division, says the Pakistani Taliban, based in Pakistan's tribal areas, has drawn close to Al Qaida and now has international aspirations.

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

The report says the U.S.military's Djibouti-based Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa is currently installing a Maritime Security and Safety Information System in key positions along the Kenyan coast.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01

"President Obama, based on an earlier story,had asked that the national security team gather further information on his background, including concerns that he might have been involved the deaths of a significant number of Taliban prisoners of war a few years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17