25 October 2007

you can't win this military

IHT: UN trying to hold Darfur talks together. rebel groups are balking.
BBC: JEM, for example, is busy kidnapping and trying to force Chinese company out of the region.

BBC: Fatah tries 8 security force members, somehow blamed for allowing Hamas's takeover of Gaza by not following orders

BBC: troops and civilians killed in Swat region of Pakistan, where an anti-gov't militant is active

BBC: ahead of December elections, Uzbek reporter killed. "Over the past two years, Mr Saipov's investigations has helped to reveal that ethnic Uzbeks were the targets of the cross-border security sweep and that the security services were behind the kidnapping of dozens of asylum seekers and refugees."

IHT: clashes in Congo

Ind: not enough order around here? head for the Maldives (until recently, anyhow)
LAT: speaking of persistence. Bush draws the line at some forms of nepotism.

BBC: voodoo sex trafficking ring busted in the Netherlands; Nigerian children forced into sex work

LAT: cocaine and control in LA: the drug war goes local

VA Quarterly: mourning the unknown dead in Colombia

Slate: will airstrikes in Iraq save American lives? (apparently Kaplan was keeping tabs on the OCV speaker series...)

Ind: US imposes new sanctions on Iran

BBC: teeny tiny states group almost had another member

Gawker: Condi's in the capital, with a warm welcome

Slate: our fearless decider gives yet another reason to be afraid

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