The Obama administration has chosen to defend John Ashcroft’s abuse of “the material witness law to round up people suspected of ties to terrorism, without evidence to charge them with a crime”:
- Court to Hear Argument over Post-9/11 Arrest (AP /Seattle Times)
Will the West rise to the bait to create yet more enemies by intervening into Libyan affairs? The U.S. repositions two ships, but calls the move “symbolic”:
- Qaddafi Forces Push into Libya’s East (Christian Science Monitor)
Another Pakistani politician is murdered for opposing the blasphemy law, but the country’s largest religious party, which had praised the similar recent assassination of his Muslim colleague condemns this killing:
“[A]ccording to those who have tracked his career in Britain, Choudary is wholly a press creation. ‘”He’s a media whore,’ says Mehdi Hasan, a senior editor at the New Statesman”:
- Fox’s Favorite Muslim Radical (Salon)
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