Unified political pressure, not military offensives seem to have greater effect on pacifying Sadr’s militancy…
- Iraq: Sadr Party Faces Rising Isolation (Associated Press/Wiredispatch)
- Iraq Sadr to Disband Militia If Clerics Give Order (Reuters/Washington Post)
- U.S. and Iraqis Battle Militias to End Attacks (New York Times)
…but overall, experts conclude in a United States Institute of Peace report that political progress in Iraq has been dismal:
- Iraq Still a Quagmire Say Experts (Inter Press Service)
NY Times editorial debunks the Bush administration’s faulty legal reasoning used to deny a pair of American citizens detained in Iraq their habeus corpus rights:
- Another Test for Habeas Corpus (New York Times)
Hady Amr personalizes how US policy hypocrisy directly contributed to the death of an American Muslim kidnapped in Pakistan:
- Kidnapped: My Friend and American Ideals (Washington Post)
The Muslim Brotherhood calls for a boycott after the Egyptian state ignores court rulings recognizing the group’s right to run in half of the country’s constituencies:
- Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Calls for Election Boycott (Reuters/Washington Post)
Using the power of modern media, Ahmed Abu Haiba seeks to create a modern Islamic pop culture:
- Popularizing Islam Through TV (Los Angeles Times)
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