LAT: 21 dead in Tijuana prison riots
"The prison has seen several uprisings in recent years as state officials have been unable to improve overcrowded conditions and control guard brutality and corruption."
LAT: breakdown of Mexico's police agencies
LAT: the police in charge of policing the police
LAT: massive arrest of 175 suspected Gulf Cartel members in the US
WP: Chavez's aides accused of collaborating with FARC
WP: HRW says Chavez undermining democracy in Venezuela too
"Since [2002], Chávez has used the putsch bid to harangue opponents, enact laws restricting the news media and justify discriminatory policies at the state oil company and other institutions, the report said."
LAT: violence in Bolivia
CSM: where rivals try to broker deal
Gdn: police raid homes in Muslim area of Delhi after bombs, kill 2 suspects
"In protest local shops closed and a number of residents came out onto the narrow streets shouting slogans. Many appeared perturbed that the police had used deadly force near a local mosque. More than 5,000 police were quickly drafted in to keep the peace...In the past few days it has become clear that police have blundered repeatedly in the past year in their attempts to track terror cells, particularly in the Muslim community who have been wary of cooperating with Indian intelligence."
WP: Hindu-Christian violence in India
AP (via WP): Thailand lifts emergency, because it wasn't good for tourism
oh, you hadn't heard?
"Emergency rule was imposed by the government Sept. 2 after a night of clashes between its supporters and opponents left one man dead and dozens injured. Images of the mayhem were broadcast around the world, prompting travel advisories from several countries.
Calm was quickly restored in the capital, and business and daily life continued as usual. The army refused to exercise its authority under the decree to oust tens of thousands of protesters from the prime minister's compound, where they have been camped in tents since Aug. 26."
AP (via WP): Malaysia's new prime ministerBBC: his rival just resigned
BBC: battle at sea in Sri Lanka
WP: violence reignited in Philippines
"After years of calm, the oldest insurgency in Asia has flared into a brutish war, with burned villages, slain families, artillery bombardments, vigilante death squads and hundreds of thousands of displaced people.
The match was lit last month when the Philippine government abruptly backed out of an all-but-done peace deal it had been quietly negotiating for years. That enraged Muslim rebels here on Mindanao, a lush and resource-rich island where Muslims and Christians have been elbowing each other for power and land for more than four centuries.
At 4:30 a.m. Aug. 18, aggrieved rebels attacked this mostly Christian village of 4,000 residents. The rebels looted rice and canned sardines. They doused 22 houses with gasoline and set them on fire, while killing 13 Christian villagers, according to a government tally. The youngest victim was 10; the oldest, 95.
Tipped off about the raid, Muslims in the village fled before the rebels arrived. But if the Muslims come home, they face the vengeance of a Christian vigilante group called the Ilaga, which last operated in the 1970s."
WP: violence in NigeriaBBC: militants 'warn of war'
LAT: opposition supporters come to rally in Zimbabwe
LAT: rioting over witches and soccer in Congo
GDN: details of power-sharing deal in Zimbabwe
BBC: troops die in Mauritania clash
BBC: AU peacekeeper killed in Somalia
WP: France rescues two pirate hostages
BBC: Rwandans hold election for parliament
Econ: and elect first majority-women parliament in history
BBC: violence in Turkmenistan related to drug trafficking
LAT: war in Georgia sparks domestic conflict in Ukraine
WP: defense contracts in Afghanistan
Econ: civilian deaths reach new levels
AP (via WP): SecDef says US reviewing its strategy
but: "Gates did not say the current U.S. approach in Afghanistan is failing. Nor did he explicitly call for a change of direction. He alluded, instead, to the 2007 makeover of U.S. strategy in Iraq and suggested in an interview with a group of reporters that the administration is reconsidering fundamental aspects of its strategy."
WP: new flash point in Iraq
LAT: Iranian veteran's film on war with Iraq
"The movie questions the very myths about war upon which the Islamic Republic rests: namely, who from Iranian society fought in the war, out of which strata they hailed and why they fought. As the hero, Majid, risks his life to walk through a minefield to clear the way for an offensive, the images rushing through his head are not fantasies of 72 virgins in heaven, but a shot of the woman he loves, his memories from a stint in prison and a grandfatherly cleric back in Tehran."
Gdn: gang violence in Paris
"French police are struggling to contain a gang war in north-eastern Paris that has left one dead and several injured, as locals complain that they are being fenced into high-rise ghettoes to make way for the middle-class...north of the canal, a war between rival gangs on high-rise estates has escalated, with riot police moving in to control it. For 15 years, local rivalries between the Curial and Riquet estates have seen vicious knife-fights and score-settling, but now more youths are turning to 'le gun'."
WP: SV says this tricky Dick may be worse than the last
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