Syria refuse to honor its agreement, adding new conditions, and escalating the violence until it spills over the borders with Turkey and Lebanon:
- Syria Peace Plan Doubt as Assad Refuses to Meet Deadline for Troop Withdrawal (Guardian)
- Syrian Rebels Reject New Demands as Ceasefire Nears (BBC)
- Fighting Rages in Syria Less than 24 Hours to Deadline (Reuters)
- Syrians Fire Across 2 Borders as Conflict Deepens (AP / abc News)
A glaring highlight on the divide between the allies’ respective counter-terorrism strategies:
The head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization says that once Iran has enough medical-grade uranium in stock, “enrichment could be dropped it to the 3.5 percent level needed for nuclear power” resolving foreign powers’ concerns over weapons-grade (90% enrichment) uranium:
- Iran Signals Possible Nuclear Compromise (abc News)
Mubarak’s spy chief dismisses the Muslim Brotherhood’s concerns that he threatens Egypt’s revolution, but at least one Israeli legislator openly roots for his victory …
- Muslim Brotherhood Warns of Revolt (Fiscal Times)
- Mubarak’s VP Says He Won’t ‘Reinvent’ Old Regime (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
- Egypt Election: Omar Suleiman Criticises Muslim Brotherhood (BBC)
- Israeli Lawmaker Backs Suleiman as Egypt Leader (AP / abc News)
… meanwhile, supporters of the ultra-conservative candidate disqualified because his mother held U.S> citizens protest the immigration documentation is fraudulent, even as other candidates may face similar disqualification …
- Egyptians Flood Obama’s Facebook Page in Election Row (BBC)
- In Egypt, Foreign Citizenship Rule Roils Presidential Race (Washington Post with Foreign Policy)
… and as as the grandson of the MB’s founder argues they lack a “serious set of policies for dealing with Egypt’s stark economic and social problems,” the FJP’s attempts to excuse breaking its promise not to run a candidate for president fail to address the concerns we raised in a recent blog:
- Muslim Brotherhood Candidate Says He Is Running to Cement the Group’s Rise in Egypt (Washington Post with Foreign Policy)
Saudi princess calls for a constitution “inspired by the philosophy of the Koran with principles that are set in stone and not open to the whims of individual judges as is the case now. In particular, the constitution should protect every citizen’s basic human rights regardless of their sex, status or sect. Everyone should be equal before the law”:
Amnesty International says the pro-democracy demonstrator’s confession was “made under duress, and no evidence was presented showing he had used, or advocated violence,” and his daughter writes that he “told guards ‘If I die, I die with dignity’” and she and her mother are proud and support “him all the way, no matter what he decide[s]”:
“Salah arrived at Heathrow Airport on June 25 and was detained three days later. He later sought damages for unlawful detention, and the High Court ruled that since he was not given “proper and sufficient reasons†for his arrest until the third day of his detention, he should receive damages for that period’
- Islamic Leader in Israel Wins His Appeal Against UK Deportation (AP / Washington Post with Foreign Policy)
Experts ask if the emergence of the “lone wolf” terrorist might be connected to “estimates that about half of French inmates are Muslim, far greater than the proportion in the population at large” while “there are only 151 Muslim prison chaplains … compared to 700 Roman Catholic chaplains”:
- France Takes New Look at Radicalization in Prisons (AP / Boston Globe)
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