Friday, August 10, 2007

http://www.slate.com/id/2171752/pagenum/all/#page_start
Why Do They Hate Us?Strange answers lie in al-Qaida's writings. By Reza Aslan

Thursday, August 9, 2007

Increasing another.. ny subway fear http://www.chelseanow.com/cn_46/yetanothersubway.html
Ventilation project (Yet another subway plan) fans fears in Mulry Sq.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/09/nyregion/09commute.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin
..Last friday Cindy Sheehan seemed to be talking in Union sq..!?
I was there last Thursday, not Friday..
http://www.chelseanow.com/cn_46/antiwarleader.html
Antiwar leader Sheehan says it’s war with Pelosi

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=19848
Iraqi refugees hail Syria's easing of residency rules

Saturday, February 24, 2007

http://www.slate.com/id/2160542/
No Gitmo North
Barbara Raab

..The unanimous Canadian Supreme Court decision says "before the state can detain people for significant periods of time, it must accord them a fair judicial process." One of the defendants in the case boiled it down to this: The court "has said no to Guantánamo North in Canada." The Times emphasizes the "striking difference" from the current legal climate in the United States, where just this week, a federal appeals court upheld Congress' action stripping the American courts of authority to hear challenges to the indefinite detention of foreign terror suspects at Gitmo.

..The LAT reports the Bush administration is running out of patience with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and the Shiite parliament's foot-dragging over legislation that would ease rules barring former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party from government service, an important factor in bringing Iraq's violence under control. The person in charge of overseeing the de-Baathification plan was Ahmad Chalabi, who Maureen Dowd describes in her NYT column today as "the man who helped goad and trick the U.S. into war."

..The younger Mr. Hakim says the Americans treated him roughly and falsely accused him of having an invalid passport. The NYT explains far better than the other papers today why his apparently mistaken detention was a major misstep for the United States at a critical time in relations with both Iraq's Shiite majority and Tehran.

a confession of British soldiers..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2018490,00.html 'It is the armed forces that are saving the politicians' reputations'

Friday, February 23, 2007