News and Analysis (11/6/06)

Hamas indicates it will name a prime minister selected to “lift the siege imposed on the Palestinians”.

• Hamas Picks PM Candidate But Doesn’t Identify Him (Reuters)

Saddam’s conviction: “Have ever justice and hypocrisy been so obscenely joined?”

• Robert Fisk: This Was a Guilty Verdict on America as Well (The Independent)

She preferred death to employing interrogation techniques…

• A Suicide in Iraq (Editor & Publisher)

… interrogation techniques the government prefers we not know:

• U.S. Says Terror Suspect Shouldn’t Talk to Civilian Lawyer (USA Today / AP)

GWU National Security Archive Director says FOI request reveals that Defense Dept. knew that Iraqi intervention “would have ended up with a failed state even with 400,000 troops on the ground…”

• 1999 War Games Foresaw Problems in Iraq (USA Today / AP)

… so now we’re damned if we do …

• Possible Iraq Deployments Would Stretch Reserve Force (Washington Post)

… and damned if  we don’t:

• Soldiers in Iraq Say Pullout Would Have Devastating Results (Washington Post)

Count of cases false accounting of soldier deaths now at seven:

• Anger Joins Grief as Marine’s Family Feels Misled (NY Times)

ACLU is disturbed “that American citizens can be treated with impunity by American officials without a recognition that the constitution applies;”

• U.S. Wants Filmmaker’s Suit Dismissed (Bellingham Herald)

David Frum denies being remorseful about Iraq and denies blaming Bush for the developments about which he is not remorseful:

• Vanity Fair’s Inventions (Huffington Post)

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