Attempting to detail the economic and strategic trends underway.
Al-Qaeda
plays the race card over Obama’s election.
About
what a single nuclear weapon can do. The case
for missile defence.
Israeli air force general makes it clear that Israel is willing and able
to deal with Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
Piracy is a growing problem
generating considerable wealth: not least because of
the difficulties in legally apprehending them under Western legal systems where multicultural pc has gone perhaps a little far: last April the British Foreign Office instructed the British Navy not to apprehend pirates lest they claim that their human rights were harmed, and request and receive asylum in Britain.
Coordinated, murderous attacks
strike at Mumbai.
More.
Pakistan
has effectively closed off major supply lines to NATO forces in Afghanistan, citing inadequate security.
Bodyguard on trial for murder in Afghanistan
for revenge killing. The man shot had some minutes earlier set on fire the anthropologist the bodyguard was protecting.
As the security situation in Afghanistan worsens,
so does the situation of women.
Iraqi interpreters for the US Army
are upset over ban on them wearing masks.