In the aftermath of the National Intelligence Estimate’s latest report stating a lack of an Iranian nuclear weapons program since 2003, Ahmadinejad claims “a great victoryâ€, while neocon hardliner Robert Kagan and former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans see an opportunity to talk to Tehran:
- Nuclear Report A Victory – Iran (BBC News)
- Time to Talk to Iran (Washington Post)
- The Right Nuclear Red Line (Washington Post)
Typical of the flaws within the Gitmo military tribunals, German citizen Murat Kurnaz was detained for five years despite a “consensus view†from US and German intelligence agencies that he was not a terrorist…
- Evidence Of Innocence Rejected at Guantanamo (Washington Post)
…and today the Supreme Court begins hearing arguments on the role of civilian courts vs. military tribunals and (lack of) habeus corpus in the regarding “enemy combatants”:
- Legal Battle On Guantanamo Looms (BBC News)
American and some Iraqi officials assert that without quicker and more comprehensive political overtures to include Sunnis in government institutions, the country’s relative calm will soon collapse:
- A Calmer Iraq: Fragile, and Possibly Fleeting (New York Times)
Under martial law Musharraf seeks to squelch opposition voices by formally retiring 37 dissenting federal judges and expelling two American human rights activists, while in Bangladesh, two university professors are arrested for allegedly inciting students to protest its own “emergency ruleâ€:
- Pakistan Retires Dissident Judges (Al-Jazeera International)
- Professors Jailed in Bangladesh (BBC News)
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