Analysts and opposition members alike find that Musharraf is steadily losing grip on power and will soon be at a crossroads: either step aside and allow for free and fair elections, or declare martial law…
- Musharraf’s Grip Falters in Pakistan (Los Angeles Times)
…meanwhile religious radicals continue to advance their agendas and fill in the power vacuum Musharraf has created by playing on peoples’ economic and political discontent:
- Pakistan Losing Territory to Radicals (Christian Science Monitor)
Federal prosecutors use only 5% of some 300,000 tapped phone calls, with the rest “untranslated and effectively off limits to defense lawyers in FBI vaultsâ€, as evidence against Padilla co-defendants, defense asserts “cherry picking†of incriminating conversations and ignoring exculpatory discussions:
- The Others on Trial in Padilla Case (Christian Science Monitor)
The case of Osama El-Dawoody highlights a fundamental problem of using informants in investigations–are they valuable sources of information or agent provocateurs?
- The Informer: Behind the Scenes, or Setting the Stage? (Washington Post)
Case of Malaysian convert to Christianity highlights issues of authority in Malaysia’s dual secular-Islamic legal system and ill-informed interpretations of religious freedom in Islamic thought:
- Malaysian Christian Tests Islamic Law (Reuters/Washington Post)
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