By trading with all sides Qatar enabled Qatar to mediate the Lebanese crisis:
- Why Qatar is Emerging as Middle East Peacemaker (Christian Science Monitor)
- Lebanon’s Suleiman Set to Become President (Reuters)
Add the global food crisis to complications in Afghanistan:
- Afghanistan Adds Hunger to Its Worries (Washington Post)
With the improved security situation the U.S. tries some rebuilding in Iraq …
- U.S. Teams Start Work Of Restoring South Iraq (Washington Post)
… while Sarkozy decides to position France to throw its military weight around:
- Go-It-Alone France Shifts Military Stance (Washington Post)
British security report “says that apprehension about Muslim prisoners has potentially damaging consequences and is in danger of ‘leading to hostility and Islamophobia’”:
- Muslim Gangs Are Taking Control of Prison (Guardian Observer)
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