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...police midway through a piece. Guetta then achieves the inconceivable: he meets and becomes the aide of the elusive Banksy. Hooded and voice-dubbed, Guetta films Banksy in his workshop, cutting stencils and implementing his famous “Murdered Phonebox” piece in Central London. The footage is almost breath-taking, capturing in a few moments the comedy and tenacity of the street art phenomenon...
...expertise in Whitehall was responsible for - and continues to create - problems on the ground. "We are putting amateurs into really important positions and people are getting killed as a result of some of these decisions," he said. Nigel Adderley, a former army officer and now an analyst at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, agrees there's a problem. "Today I don't think there's a government minister or anyone in the present government who has military experience. There becomes this disconnect between what the military is trying to tell the politician...
...British soldiers can certainly be overconfident. But John Nagl, president of the Center for a New American Security, believes the real roots of British humiliations in Iraq lie in London. "If the politicians back home are not completely committed to this thing, if they have not leveled with the people on the likely costs of the war, then you're putting an unsupportable burden on the army in the field in a counterinsurgency campaign," says Nagl. "And so as you look at explanations as to why the British army performed better in Malaya than Iraq, one of the questions...
...undermined by mounting casualties - three-quarters from improvised explosive devices - and public skepticism about the NATO mission. Operation Moshtarak, this spring's offensive led by U.S. troops, has helped buck up spirits but misgivings remain. Prime Minister Gordon Brown denied that the decision made at a January summit in London - to offer cash to insurgents to lay down arms - amounted to a bribe. But the idea is a hard sell to soldiers who saw colleagues killed providing security last year for presidential elections stained by fraud and intimidation. Another key task, training the Afghan army and police to take over...
...Despite the questions raised by the U.N. probe, investigation of possible military involvement in Bhutto's assassination will prove extremely difficult. Musharraf now languishes in self-imposed exile in London, beyond the reach of Pakistani authorities. And the army he left behind, whose political clout is undiminished, is unlikely to accept a potentially humiliating probe into one of its longest-serving commanders in chief. "No credible criminal investigation can proceed in Pakistan," says Farzana Shaikh, a senior Pakistan analyst at London's Royal Institute of International Affairs, "because that would mean going to the heart of the military...