An agent of the Syrian government spying on Syrian dissidents in the U.S. get off with a 18 month sentence while prosecutors recommend 17 years for that the apparently mentally unstable target of anFBI sting operation reported to have “stood in the road not moving and appeared to have wet his pants”:
- Syrian Agent Working in US Gets 18 months, Admits Spying on Dissidents During Arab Spring (Washington Post)
- Mass. Man Pleads Guilty in Plot to Blow Up Pentagon with Explosive-packed Model Planes (Washington Post)
“The extremist ministate in northern Mali is the unexpected fallout from the collapse of what had been regarded in the West — mistakenly — as a stable African democracy with functioning institutions in the capital”:
“I am fully aware that she sometimes has difficulty with her facts, but this is downright vicious and reaches the late Senator Joe McCarthy level” — Ed Rollins …
…while satirist demonstrates that Michelle Bachmann is more closely linked to al-Qaeda than Huma Abedin is to the Muslim Brotherhood …
… but undaunted, Bachmann casts her net wider still to include Rep. Keith Ellison:
- Michele Bachmann Alleges Fellow Congressman Has Muslim Brotherhood Ties (Minneapolis Star-Tribune / Boston Herald)
An academic protests the “sloppy and sensationalistic journalism that has made the work of academics who study and teach about the region much more difficult”:
- Muslim Women Are…? Discuss (Guardian)
“From Hezbollah’s perspective, avenging Mughniyah requires selecting a target with reciprocal value, such as a high-profile political or military figure in Israel” not tourists:
- Hezbollah on Bus Bombing: We Wouldn’t Target Tourists for Revenge (Christian Science Monitor)
“Corruption and suspicions of vote fraud – the same problems that stoked the biggest street protests of Putin’s 12-year rule in recent months – are helping fuel the spread of conservative Islam in Russia’s Muslim regions”:
- Russia Detains 5 over Attacks on Muslim Leaders (Reuters / Yahoo)
“Thousands of anti-government protesters in Bahrain clashed Friday with riot police firing tear gas during demonstrations against plans to limit political marches”:
- Clashes in Bahrain over Opposition Clampdown (USA Today)
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