As sectarian violence continues, ten years after the disastrous decision to invade Iraq, the disgraceful truth emerges of bad intelligence manufactured, good intelligence ignored, and one example of the media shills who convinced Americans that an Iraqi dictator had something to do with 9/11:
- Iraq Rocked by Wave of Explosions (Guardian)
- Iraq 10 Years On: The Human Cost (BBC)
- Iraq: The Spies Who Fooled the World (BBC)
- Bad reason to invade Iraq No. 1: Saddam was ‘evil’ Â (Christian Science Monitor)
- Bad Reason to Invade Iraq No. 2: Weapons of Mass Destruction  (Christian Science Monitor)
- Thomas Friedman, Iraq War Booster (Christian Science Monitor)
The rising suspicion that “Zionism is the problem” has emerged even in the New York Times even as Obama makes his trip to Israel, sparking a rarely heard but badly needed conversation:
- Is This Where the Third Intifada Will Start? (NY Times)
- U.S. in the Peace Process (WNYC)
- ‘Forward’ Slams Ehrenreich for Questioning Zionism and Palestinian Villagers for Throwing Stones at Soldiers (Mondoweiss)
The justice minister has associate the rise in vigilante activity with Islamism, but “[w]itnesses to the lynchings depicted it purely as a revenge killing without pointing to any connection to enforcing Islamic law”:
- Egypt Justice Minister Dismayed by Lynchings (AP / Denver Post)
“The Pakistani Taliban on Monday withdrew their offer of holding peace talks with the government, saying that the authorities were not serious about following through with negotiations” and separately claimed responsibility for “a pair of suicide bombers [who] attacked a court complex in the northwestern city of Peshawar”:
- Pakistani Taliban Withdraw Offer of Peace Talks with Government; Militants Attack Court (AP / Washington Post)
Green lantern is a Muslim?
- Muslim Comic Book Superheroes Tournament (Huffington Post)
“Chief Justice Aideed Abdullahi Ilkohanaf said Sunday there was not enough evidence to support an appeals court ruling that reporter Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim offended national institutions” noting “the reporter had not published the interview”:
- Somali Court Overturns Conviction of Journalist (AP / abc News)
“This past week … the Egypt delegation “pleasantly” surprised many of the Conference’s participants and perhaps some of the male-dominated leadership in Cairo by joining the overwhelming consensus to support the empowering Declaration concluding the two weeks of deliberations at the UN”:
- “Muslim Sisterhood” Endorses More Robust Effort on Gender Violence/Discrimination  (Huffington Post)
“In the 1970s, barely 1 percent of schools were private, says Mr. Zaidi. Today over a third of all children attend private schools, a statistic that reveals the huge appetite for education in Pakistan” but of the “12 million school-age children in Pakistan who have never been to school, two-thirds of whom are girls”:
- Pakistan’s Education Crisis: What Ever Happened to Malala’s Friends? (Christian Science Monitor)
“The opposition Syrian National Coalition chose Western-educated former businessman Ghassan Hitto as provisional prime minister in a vote on Tuesday at a meeting in Istanbul”:
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