News and Analysis (4/2/07)

The disastrous consequences of military intervention in Iraq: 

• Sunnis Surge Beyond Baghdad (Christian Science Monitor) 

• Driven by War to a No Man’s Land in Jordan: Lives of Palestinian Refugees From Iraq Reflect Six Decades of Dispossession (Washington Post) 

• Qaeda Is Seen as Restoring Leadership (New York Times)  

Violence from military interventionism and poor security in Mogadishu force tens of thousands of residents to flee: 

• Thousands Flee Somalia Fighting (BBC News) 

With violence at a lull, India begins contemplating whether or not to scale down its occupation force in Kashmir: 

• India Weighs Troop Reduction in Quieter Kashmir (Christian Science Monitor) 

Military involvement in Bangladesh’s political could be perilous for its democracy: 

• B’desh Democracy Fails, Army Says (BBC News) 

Underlying reasons for opposition to a mosque in a small town in England is a microcosm of larger trends affecting the country and its Muslim communities: 

• Old Church Becomes Mosque in Uneasy Britain (New York Times) 

Dressed in military fatigues and a hijab: Yemen creates an all-female unit of their counterterrorism force 

• Yemeni Women Sign up to Fight Terror (BBC News)

Alejandro

Alejandro Beutel is program assistant for the Minaret of Freedom Institute with expertise in religious freedom, democratization and security issues.