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BBC: Chad gov't conducting house-by-house raids in N'Djamena, searching for alleged rebels

BBC: hunt for rebels also underway in East Timor

NYT: Philippines on the lookout too, after intel about possible assassination attempt on Arroyo

BBC: LRA on the move through southern Sudan, maybe towards CAR, allegedly kidnapping Sudanese along the way; peace talks look touch-and-go

BBC: in Thailand, search successful: Karen National Union rebel leader killed

NYT: in Lebanon as well: background on Imad Mugniyah
"Long before Osama bin Laden founded Al Qaeda and initiated the Sept. 11 attacks against the United States, [he] was perhaps the world’s most feared terrorist."
WP: has a profile too, on how he innovated terror tactics
AP: Nasrallah threatens Israel, urges revenge (Israel denies involvement)

BBC: Bangladesh military gov't accused of illegal detention, torture
"[Human Rights Watch] claims that many of the people arrested under the emergency rules by the army and its intelligence organisation, the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence, or DGFI, have been tortured to extract confessions."

IHT: Iraqi jails and courts can't handle detainees
NYT: one approach: parliament passes measures that may provide amnesty to thousands
"The three measures are the 2008 budget; a law outlining the scope of provincial powers, a crucial aspect of Iraq’s self-definition as a federal state; and an amnesty that would apply to thousands of the detainees held in Iraqi jails...The decision to vote on the three measures together broke the logjam that had held up the legislation for months, despite pressure from the Bush administration and some senior Iraqi officials. Every group was able to boast that it had won, to some degree."

IHT: Senate isn't buying administration's take on torture
Gdn: neither is Stephen Bradbury, acting head of DoJ's office of legal counsel (apparently consulting the laws changed his mind)

LAT: Spain arresting ETA, Basque dissidents

BBC: Malaysia to hold elections in March, about one year early, amid ethnic tensions

Daily Mail: a valentine for Vladimir, anyone?
"He accused the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe of trying to 'teach' Russia how to behave and mocked: 'Let them teach their wives to make cabbage soup.'" (to be fair, Leslie already called dibs)