While the U.S. presses European allies to increase their commitments to the fight in Afghanistan, the Taliban execute a “surge” of their own; Sarkozy says the French will not be deterred:
For a pilot, the charge of “flying while Muslim” can be a career-killer:
- PA Pilot Says He’s on Watch List, Sues to Save Job (AP/Washington Post)
The 120 Saudis released from Guantanamo have been ben greeted by a committee of clerics, psychologists, social scientists, and and security people who use “a mix of forgiveness, reeducation, counseling, prison time, and cash” to disabuse them of “‘deviant’ or ‘misguided’ beliefs:”
- Saudis Use Cash and Counseling to Fight Terrorism (Christian Science Monitor)
“No Arab country has had an ambassador permanently stationed in Baghdad since Egypt’s envoy was kidnapped and killed in 2005, although several have named ambassadors this year who have yet to arrive:”
- Lebanese Calls for Arabs to Embrace Iraq (Reuters)
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front warns that the government’s threat of “an all-out offensive in the country’s south” would be “the most serious blunder that this sitting regime could commit:”
- Philippine Separatists Warn of War (Al-Jazeera)
As violence continues in Algeria, still no one claims responsibility, though outsiders are suspected:
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