With Syrian approval, the UN begins its investigation into which side is responsible for the deadly chemical attack, but the British foreign secretary says that the UK has already made up its mind and it and the U.S. are preparing for war despite the reticence of the American public:
- Syria: UN Inspectors Can Go to Suspected Gas Attack Site (Christian Science Monitor)
- Syria crisis: UN team Visiting ‘Chemical Attack’ Site (BBC)
- Syrian Offer on UN Team ‘Too Little, Too Late’ (Guardian)
- Syria crisis: UK and US Move Closer to Intervention (Guardian)
- Syria: Doctors Without Borders Reports 355 Dead from Chemical Attack (Christian Science Monitor)
- As Syria War Escalates, Americans Cool to U.S. Intervention: Reuters/Ipsos Poll (Reuters)
As the army proceeds full-speed ahead on the reversal of the progress towards constitutional government, setting up a constitutional committee, which has proposed scrapping changes made to the constitution under ousted President Mohamed Morsi, and reinstating some Mubarak-era policies …
- Will Changes to Egypt’s Constitution Favor Mubarak-era Politicians? (Christian Science Monitor)
- Egypt: A New Banana Republic? (AlJazeera)
… the deposed dictator gets a speedy retrial for “the deaths of protesters in the 2011 uprising … [while]Â Muslim Brotherhood leaders must wait two more months to stand trial” …
- Mubarak Appears in Court, Muslim Brotherhood Leaders Get Delay (Deutsche-Welle)
- Trial of Muslim Brotherhood Leader Signals iIntensity of Crackdown in Egypt (Washington Post)
… and “the army ousting of Egypt’s Islamist government may have prompted some Libyan radicals to step up violence against secular critics”:
“The ruling said the government failed to tell defense attorneys that the FBI had paid a key prosecution witness, that government agents exceeded the scope of a search warrant on Seda’s computer hard drives and that prosecutors provided an unfair summary of classified information relied on by the government”:
- Charity Operator’s Conviction Reversed (Register-Guard)
- Liars on Parade (ForbiddenKnowledgeTV / BanditBooks)
“The criteria used by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to blacklist immigrants are overly broad and include traveling through regions where there is terrorist activity, the report said. The criteria disproportionately target Muslim immigrants, who often wait years to get a response on their citizenship applications and in some cases are denied”:
- Muslims Blacklisted For U.S. Citizenship Under Secret Government Program, Says ACLUÂ (Huffington Post)
“The lawyer of a man convicted of building and promoting pornographic websites says a death sentence against his client has been converted to life imprisonment”:
- Iranian Convicted for Porn Site Gets Life Sentence (AP / abc News)
“Police shouted at the mob to disperse, but did not take any serious action”:
British Muslims have to prove their patriotism:
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