News and Analysis (5/18/09)

With the need to generate 100 million new jobs within the next ten years:

• Mideast Leaders Defend Free Market at Economic Forum (Christian Science Monitor)

Relations between Iraqi Arabs and Kurds rapidly deteriorate:

• Dispute Over Land Simmering in Iraq (Washington Post)

Analysts fear some of the billions in US aid might be allocated to Pakistan’s nuclear programs:

• Pakistan Is Rapidly Adding Nuclear Arms, U.S. Says (NY Times)

Hundreds of fighters who had been persuaded to support President Ahmed, a “widely respected moderate Islamist once vilified by U.S. officials but now regarded by Washington as Somalia’s last, best hope” have gone back to the Shabab extremists:

• Rebels Threaten Somali Government (Washington Post)

“It is an intellectual way of segregating the minorities from the society and it gives them an impression that they were not part of the nation at all”

• The Threat of Pakistan’s Revisionist Texts (Guardian)

BJP members reexamine militant anti-Muslim rhetoric in wake of their poor showing  in the elections:

• India’s Hindu Party Reflects on Election Drubbing (Washington Post)

Imran

Minaret of Freedom Institute Program Assistant