Seeking to keep itself outside the bounds of potential “litigation and congressional investigationsâ€, the CIA destroys videotapes showing the harsh interrogation of two high-level Al-Qaeda operatives, which may involve waterboarding:
- CIA Destroyed Videos Showing Interrogations (Washington Post)
Sloppy accounting practices lead to large amounts of missing equipment destined for Iraqi security forces’ training, including the majority of purchased arms, ammunition and generators…
- ‘Millions Missing’ from Iraq Fund (BBC News)
…meanwhile according to a meanwhile a US embassy official, one of the military’s key political solutions for ending the sectarian cleansing in Iraq—large-scale integration of Sunnis into the security services—is unachievable:
- Anti-Qaeda Fighters Can’t Bank on Iraq Army Jobs: US Official (AFP/Middle East Times)
Although Michel Suleiman has emerged as the consensus presidential candidate, his vote is been put off a seventh time due to conditions from opposing parties placed on his pending confirmation:
- Lebanon Presidential Vote Put Off (Al-Jazeera International)
As Bhutto and Sharif remain deadlocked over issues of “pragmatism versus idealism†on how to deal with Musharraf and the upcoming elections, lawyer and political activist Aitzaz Ahsan publishes a strategy in several Pakistani newspapers to keep the lawyer’s movement for an independent judiciary alive:
- Pakistani Protesters Eager for Bhutto-Sharif Deal (Christian Science Monitor)
- Detained Pakistani Seeks to Revive Judiciary Cause (New York Times)
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