Minaret of Freedom Weblog

Breaking from Obama’s strategy of “moving foward”, Attorney General Holder mulls appointing a criminal investigator into the CIA torture practices of the Bush administration …

• Probe of Alleged Torture Weighed (Washington Post)

… as revelations emerge that information was withheld from House and Senate intelligent committees for 8 years under direct orders from Cheney:

• Cheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project (NY Times)

“… [W]e’re not going to just wait indefinitely and allow for the development of the nuclear weapon, the breach of international treaties, and wake up one day and find ourselves in a much worse situation and unable to act.” -Obama

• Iran Offers G8 New Issues to Debate (Al Jazeera)

The criticisms are unlikely to produce any immediate results in Iran:

• Senior Cleric Says Leaders Of Iran Are Unfit to Rule (NY Times)
• Senior Iranian Cleric Calls for Revision of Election Laws (LA Times)

Without security for the locals, what exactly were the gains of the Pakistani Military?

• ‘No Safety’ for Pakistan Returnees (Al Jazeera)

With domestic violence no longer at peak levels, Cosmetic surgery booms as an industry:

• The New Face of Plastic Surgery in Iraq (LA Times)

Illustrating the fragile state of the Somalian government:

• AU Forces Drawn into Somalia War (Al Jazeera)