News and Analysis (3/12/09)

In a poll 62% of Iraqis believe Zaidi is a hero and 24% that his actions are criminal — perhaps both are true:

“[W]hen America began its occupation, bombings with half the casualties of Tuesday’s suggested the United States might not prevail. Today, when America and its Iraqi allies seem to be winning, the attack failed to make the front page of the government newspaper”:

Long suffering from the conceit that the religion of Islam belongs to them, some Malays now want to prevent non-Muslim countrymen from using the Malay (originally Arabic) name of the God of Abraham:

A red flag in the protection of freedom of speech:

“It was ‘a fairly major black mark’ for any country to be targeted  in such a report” – Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the UN:

Mirroring what the US could be achieving in Afghanistan, Sharif Ahmed hopes to promote reconciliation through compromise:

Its not difficult to imagine why freed Guantanamo inmates would choose to take up arms again:

Imran

Minaret of Freedom Institute Program Assistant


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