We won’t have Pervez Musharraf to kick around anymore:
- President Musharraf of Pakistan Resigns (NY Times)
- Pakistanis Celebrate After Musharraf News (LA Times)
- Musharraf Walked a Tightrope (NY Times)
Although Saudi women can’t compete in the Olympics because of Wahabi objections to the athletic clothing standards, one Saudi woman parlays her equestrian talents into a positrion on the Saudi Olympic Committee:
- An Olympic Door Opens for Saudi Woman (Washington Post)
Asra Nomani, though saddened by the canceled publication of The Jewel of Medina, is encouraged in the civilized tone of the debate and in the fact that Muslims are taking care to separate their critique of distortions from a desire for censorship:
- Self-Censoring Muslims (Washingonpost.com’s “On Faith”)
The U.S. claims Iran’s dummy satellite launch was a failure, but …
- Iran Offers to Launch Satellites (NYTimes)
Contractors in Iraq cost about the same as troops would, but critics “say the real problem is flexibility and command-and-control over private workers” like the allegations that Blackwater guards illegally “opened fire in a busy Baghdad intersection last September:”
- Record Number of US Contractors in Iraq (Christian Science Monitor)
Taliban takes boasts of violence that kills 9 Afghan civilians while asserting that the country is occupied by “cruel crusaders:”
- Blast Mars Afghan Independence Day (Al-Jazeera)
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