News and Analysis Updates (8/15/06)

Commentary questions the US Administration’s logic of labeling local and regional insurgent groups as ‘terrorists’

Alvaro Vargas Llosa suggests a better use for Guantanamo—turn it into a free-enterprise zone, much like Hong Kong

Governments allege that unsuspecting Brits wanting to aid earthquake victims in Kashmir funded recent terror plot

In letter to the editor, attorney representing many Arab/Muslim clients complains about tactics used by FBI, US Attorneys office and federal judges

Four men arrested and detained for three years under terrorism suspicion and later released without charge sue; accusing the government of holding “them illegally as punishment for refusing to work as informants.”

Top Muslim police officer responds to potential racial-profiling initiative at airports: “What we don’t want to do is actually alienate the very communities who are going to help us catch terrorists.”

“The ceasefire may have taken hold in Lebanon, but in Gaza – on Israel’s forgotten front – the killing goes on.”

UK article criticizes biased in US media and in Congress on the Middle East


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