Under a bizarre Congress and morally ambiguous Supreme Court, endangered iguanas at Guantanamo have more rights to protection than detainees whose history of being tortured was overlooked by lawmakers in 2002 and erased by the CIA in 2005:
- Guantanamo: Legal No-Man’s Land? (Associated Press/San Francisco Chronicle)
- Hill Briefed on Waterboarding in 2002 (Washington Post)
- Probe into CIA Tape Destruction (Al-Jazeera International)
- Man Held by C.I.A. Says He Was Tortured (New York Times)
Unlike many other parts of Europe where Islamophobia riding high and used to seek bans on minarets for mosques, Creteil, France offers some accommodation, albeit reluctantly:
- In a Europe Torn Over Mosques, A City Offers Accommodation (Washington Post)
Iran expert Vali Nasr argues that in order to better understand Tehran, analysts need to focus less on Ahmadinejad and more on Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei:
- Meet ‘The Decider’ of Tehran. It’s Not the Hothead You Expect. (Washington Post)
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