News and Analysis (9/12/07)

As intelligence chiefs prepare to engage themselves in a protracted legal battle to prevent full disclosure of Guantanamo detainees information, news agencies have already received some transcripts of detainees’ records, further detailing a grim picture of religious and medical abuses:

• Guantanamo Detainees Tell of Abuses (Associated Press)
• Officials Cite Danger in Revealing Detainee Data (New York Times)

National reconciliation takes a step backwards as a collage of opposition groups meet in Eritrea to discuss ways of overthrowing the current transitional government:

• Islamists in Somali Alliance Plan (BBC News)

Bush administration allied groups use ads with innuendos falsely connecting Iraq and 9/11 to continue to justify more failed costly interventionism in Iraq:

• 9/11 Linked To Iraq, In Politics if Not in Fact (Washington Post)

While flouting the judiciary, banning other potential presidential candidates and simultaneously holding the position of army chief and President, Musharraf almost ready to set date for national polls:

• Schedule for President Polls to be Announced (Adnkronos International)

Bangladesh’s caretaker government begins discussions with political parties on electoral reforms, it incrementally eases some restrictions on political activity after recent political violence and charges of “widespread restrictions on basic freedoms and rampant human rights abuses” from international human rights organizations:

• Vote Reform Talks in Bangladesh (BBC News)

An analysis of Morocco’s latest low-voter turnout find its root causes in a legacy of mistrust from the country history of authoritarianism, security concerns, complicated electoral system and the PJD’s political inexperience:

• Morocco’s Poor Show (Economist)