News and Analysis (4/5/11)

“All the generals who are fighting for Gbagbo have deserted him, it is over. There is no army, there is no fighting,” —

Anwar’s wife and leader of his party, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, “said the video leakage, which came ahead of a key April 16 election in Sarawak state on Borneo island, was meant to smear Anwar because ‘they see him as a force … a catalyst for change’”:

“A man who appeared drunk was arrested after threatening to” to blow up the headquarters of Jordan’s main opposition group, the Islamic Action Front,  with “what turned out to be a fake explosive belt”:

While some naive Western officials naively hoped the Florida Qur’an burning “could remain unnoticed” …

… Lindsay Graham’s proposal that Terry Jones’ freedom to engage in hateful speech might be curtailed on the grounds that he had endangered the “war effort” overlooks one critical detail: Congress has not declared war:

“The frontline in the conflict has been bogged down around Brega for nearly a week, with Gaddafi’s advantage in tanks and artillery cancelled out by NATO-led air strikes which effectively back the rebels,” but mow the stalemate has been broken:


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