spooky edition

NYT: the effort to collect testimonies of Liberian immigrants on Staten Island about the war, including low-level perpetrators' perspectives. (the legal distinction between victims and perpetrators seems like a substantial hurdle.)
BBC puts it in broader context.

Another BBC-NYT head-to-head over ruling in the Madrid train bombings that killed 191:
BBC: 21 convicted of bombings
NYT focuses on the 7 acquitted
BBC: meanwhile, MPs have passed the "Law of Historical Memory," condemning Franco's dictatorship and requiring local gov'ts to unearth graves from the Civil War.

BBC: violence breaks out in Somalia, the Niger Delta
AP: monks march again in northern Burma

Slate: Bush breaks his own pattern on Darfur "God, or at least His representatives in the evangelical movement (including Bush's former speechwriter Mike Gerson), is telling Bush to end the slaughter in Darfur. This time, though, Bush isn't doing much of anything. Why not?" answer: the vice puppetmaster won't let him.

BBC: OSCE stunner: Russia curbing polling observers

BBC: US giving intel to Turkey to target the PKK

BBC: seriously? a toilet conference?

Abu Muqawama: COIN reading list

happy halloween!