From Huffington Post / La Temps (Aug.30, 2011)
By Jean-Pierre Perrin
Abdel Hakim Belhadj, who leads the rebel forces in Tripoli, was a founder of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, and is believed to have been close to bloodthirsty head of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Belhadj spoke last week to Al Jazeera Read more »
By Ian Johnson
February 2011
Muslim Brotherhood senior leaders Essam el-Erian (center right) and Saad el-Katatni (center left) taking part in a protest in Cairo, January 30, 2011
As US-backed strongmen around North Africa and the Middle East are being toppled or shaken by popular protests, Washington is grappling with a crucial foreign-policy issue: how to deal with the powerful but opaque Muslim Brotherhood. Read more »
By William Pesek
Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) — China and the U.S. finally found something to agree on: Europe is doomed and might take the world’s two biggest economies down with it. Neither officials in Beijing nor Washington are actually using the “D word.” They don’t need to, not with Zhou Xiaochuan, China’s central bank governor, talking matter-of-factly about emerging nations bailing out the euro region and U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner warning of “cascading default, bank runs and catastrophic risk” there. Read more »
Published Business Recorder, Oct. 1, 2011
The government and the Army think they can make up for decades of blunders of an adventurous foreign policy by convening an All-Parties Conference. Imran Khan thinks we can tell America to mind its own business. Liberals think all the faults lie with Pakistani establishment. We thrive on half-truths and wishful thinking but we cannot formulate a serious strategy like that. Read more »
By Dexter Filkins, from New Yorker
On May 30th, as the sun beat down on the plains of eastern Pakistan, a laborer named Muhammad Shafiq walked along the top of a dam on the Upper Jhelum Canal to begin his morning routine of clearing grass and trash that had drifted into the intake grates overnight. The water flow seemed normal, but when he started removing the debris with a crane the machinery seized up. Read more »
By Jesse Richard
Centre for Research on Globalization, Canada
I don’t believe the official story of 9/11 because I know the official story of 9/11!
By Ezra Klein
Sept. 8 (Bloomberg News) — You know how we know the terrorists didn’t win? It’s not because we killed Osama bin Laden. Read more »
By Alen Mattich, The Wall Street Journal
We could be reaching a new form of banking crisis. Read more »
From the Independent UK , By Robert Fisk
The Pentagon building after 9/11 attacks. The cause of destruction of the building remains controversial todate. Read more »
