With a second stash of covert arms and explosives seized by the National Guard, “[p]arties from across the spectrum agree broadly that a new government line-up is needed. Many including Ennahda say they want to form a broad coalition to build the next cabinet” but ambiguities over procedure pose a problem:
- Tunisia Wobbles Further as PM Resigns and Credit Rating Drops  (Christian Science Monitor)
Egypt may have a popularly ratified constitution and an elected civilian government, but the military will not let it forget who is really in charge:
- Egypt’s Military Signals Impatience with Islamist President and His Muslim Brotherhood Group (AP / Washington Post)
Michael Moore says the TSA greeted the world’s first Palestinian documentary Oscar nominee by turning LAX into an Israeli checkpoint:
- How My Friend and Current Oscar Nominee Emad Burnat Was Held and Threatened with Deportation Last Night at LAXÂ (michaelmoore.com)
What’s the point in banning  a film no one is coming to see? One critic asks, “How can you make a Hollywood blockbuster, put in so much money and get simple things wrong?” adding, “Instead of the film being taken seriously, it became a joke among Pakistanis”:
- Zero Dark Thirty Ban? Rumors of Unofficial Ban Swirl, Little Audience for Film in Pakistan  (Christian Science Monitor)
A lesson to overaggressive salespeople everywhere: agreeing with everything a mark says just to get his money can backfire, especially if he is an FBI agent pretending to support terrorism in order to put you in stir:
- Florida Imam Claims Talk of Supporting Taliban Was Lies in Effort to Get Money for Poor (AP / Washington Post)
A former friend of the ringleader of the convicted group says, “Even within the extremist fold, he was extreme”:
With two children among the twelve killed in the residential neighborhood, “activists have reiterated calls – first made in the wake of an apparently accidental explosion at an arms depot in the capital last December – for military installations to be removed from Yemeni cities”:
- Yemeni Air Force Suffers Embarrassing Crashes as Yemenis Get Angry at USÂ Â (Christian Science Monitor)
“Palestinians have staged protests across the West Bank all week in solidarity with the 4,500 prisoners held by Israel. Four of the prisoners are staging a hunger strike and the worsening condition of one, Samer Issawi, …Â has drawn international attention and concerns from notables such as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon”:
The abuse of Muslim and Christian Palestinians is a regular feature of Israeli life that passes with little question, but Israel’s decision “to disappear a young Jew who had emigrated to the country and agreed to join its clandestine service” has everyone demanding answers:
- What We Know About the Death of a Mossad Agent Named ‘Prisoner X’ – and What We Don’t  (Christian Science Monitor)
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