WP: Blackwater gets immunity from someone who hopefully won't be granted immunity: " It is unclear when or by whom the grant of immunity was explained to the guards." it's like the opposite of the Trial.
New Yorker: speaking of improving the diplomatic corps
USAT: Pentagon inflated data on sniper violence in Iraq to push for more Congressional $$
LAT: Somalia's prime minister resigned yesterday
LAT: a journalist reflects on his dangerous time there
Slate: selections from the sandbox, a blog kept by soldiers deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq, and their families
Ind: US hands over Karbala to Iraqis, the 8th province (of 18) to come out of military rule
NYT op-ed: terror and liberté, then and now
LAT: the Vatican stokes civil war memories in Spain by recognizing priests and nuns killed
NYT: "hundreds" of foreign fighters most violent within the Taliban, but article does little to demonstrate this other than claim that the Pakistani-led troops don't permit development projects at the local level, while Afghan Taliban do
GDN: UN says Taliban blocks aid, has killed 34 aid workers
GDN: across the border in Peshawar
LAT: Iranians have been paying attention to how the US ignores (supports?) the PEJAK
Ind: "Zoe's Ark" misguided humanitarians arrested trying to take 103 children out of Chad
Ind: month-long march to highlight extreme inequality in India ends in Delhi
GDN: sex-trade in children allegedly rampant in Burma
NYT: pablo escobar, screen star
New Yorker: more film - NYC kingpin runs heroin in the pre-escobar era
The Onion: new form of gov't created in lab settings
LAT: thinking of spring break plans? visit Cartagena!
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