News and Analysis (10/5/09)

In domestic terrorism investigations, the FBI engages in a policy somewhere between cooperating with and intimidating Muslim community leaders:

• Probes Test Trust That Authorities Strove to Win From U.S. Muslims (Washington Post)

Further illustrating that only the people suffer from government issued sanctions:

• Black Market Shows Iran Can Adapt to Sanctions (NY Times)

“The extraordinary level of fraud in the August vote ‘has handed the Taliban its greatest strategic victory in eight years of fighting the United States and its Afghan partners’”:

• Fired UN Envoy Claims Third of Hamid Karzai Votes Fraudulent (Guardian)

Arab leaders fracture over the handling of Goldstone’s report on the Israeli invasion into Gaza:

• Syria Rebuffs Abbas Over Gaza Delay (Al Jazeera)

After the deadliest attack in over a year at an outpost slated to be closed…

• Afghanistan Assault Points Out U.S. Vulnerabilities (LA Times)

… Experts evaluate the effectiveness of US strategy almost 8 years into the war …

• Is US Strategy in Afghanistan Working? (Christian Science Monitor)

… and we argue that before you startegize you must first know your own objectives:

• How to Strategize for Afghanistan (Minaret of Freedom Institute)

Imran

Minaret of Freedom Institute Program Assistant