WP: the uninvited might have the biggest impact - everyone except Syria wants to contain Iran, thwart Hamas
Salon: how Israel's isolation makes pushing past the status quo to a sustainable solution difficult.
NYT: seeking information in Afghanistan: "Uneventful patrols defy ready measurement. Mullah Shabir had not been found. The Taliban’s local leader could be watching calmly from a window, under the village’s protection, or he could be far away.
The patrol’s ambition was shifting from hunting for him to seeking intelligence and potential allies. But which of the villagers were potential allies? Which were foes? Were most of them simply pragmatic — saying whatever they needed to say to men who stood before them with guns? No one knew."
NYT: Sharif's history with the US; Musharraf to resign army post wed, be sworn in as Pres thurs
LAT: paramilitaries in Pakistan, or local security forces, are deserting
LAT: new prime minister nominated in Somalia, formerly the secretary general of the Red Crescent there
BBC: Congo army head targets dissident general in Eastern Congo
BBC: the ICG warns of new groups forming and fighting in Darfur
BBC: violence and a strike in Assam by Adivasis (unclear if the violence or the strike, in favor of recognizing Adivasis as a scheduled caste, came first)
NYT: Putin blames US for meddling in elections
BBC: Turkish police break up a rally protesting shut-down of Kurdish political party
Econ: hellooooo Macedonia
BBC: hellooooo Croatia
Econ: in Jordan, the Muslim Brotherhood party and only coherent opposition, the Islamic Action Front, didn't gain many seats in elections
Econ: Sri Lanka in a holding pattern: military, political solutions far off
NYT: Cheney treated for irregular heart
NYT: not-so-communist, Soviet-style nostalgia for $600 a pop
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