transitions

NYT: Pakistan People's Party - the apparent victors of Sunday's elections - say they'll seek dialogue with militants; coalition talk on the table with Sharif's party
WP: they might want to send a memo to the CIA, because unilateral attacks seem here to stay
WSJ: chat with Musharraf
"Sitting in his office in Islamabad in a gray pinstriped suit, Mr. Musharraf issued cautionary words to the next prime minister. "The clash would be if the prime minister and president would be trying to get rid of each other. I only hope we would avoid these clashes," he said."
Slate: election analysis

Slate: el comandante signs off
LAT: brief profiles of four possible successors

NPR: text messages to incite violence in Kenya
NYT: ...maybe spurred demographic changes along ethnic lines

NYT: housing crisis in (the new state of) Kosovo, too -- sorting out squatters and IDPs
"The United Nations is trying to right the most recent of those wrongs, committed during the civil war in 1998 and 1999, when hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanians and Serbs fled their homes in this poor, landlocked territory, only to seize a house belonging to somebody else.

The attempt to reverse these misdeeds underlines the challenge facing conflict zones around the world, where ensuring the right of returning minorities to take possession of their homes is deemed essential to reconstruction in multiethnic countries like Rwanda and Iraq."
NYT: the new country has other problems already

AP: Colombian soldiers convicted of killing anti-narcotics police squad

AP: Liberian refugees in US weigh participation in Truth and Reconciliation Commission

USAT: after university shootings, 12 states consider allowing students and professor to carry guns on campus

New Yorker: an historical look at water boarding by Americans in the Philippines - at the turn of the last century