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...Lagos and Abuja, there are more and more whispers wishing the generals were back. Not that people see a military regime as a good thing. But, say some, it might just be better than the dreadful present: a President, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, confined to his sickbed in Saudi Arabia for two months but refusing to hand over to his deputy; the government of Africa's most populous country adrift; a civil war likely to start again in the southern oil fields; hundreds killed in religious clashes in the north; and fresh national shame after a young Nigerian tried...
...Royal Dutch Shell were signing a 20-year deal to develop a supergiant Iraqi oil field. The agreement had been heralded as a cornerstone for the future of an Iraq safe enough for investors to unload tens of billions of dollars, perhaps one that would see Iraq surpass Saudi Arabia in oil production. Many hoped it would underwrite Iraq's transition from war zone to prosperity. "Chemical Ali" was executed in the morning, another remnant of the bad old Saddam days gone. But very soon Monday brought back the Iraq of the bloody, shrieking past in three consecutive, coordinated blasts...
Blame China, Saudi Arabia and, yes, Canada...
...Administration has dodged some of these questions. When Brennan was asked on Jan. 7 when the specific threat posed to the homeland by AQAP first became known, he did not directly answer the question. He did acknowledge that he traveled to Saudi Arabia last September to investigate AQAP's attempted assassination of the kingdom's top counterterrorism official. That attack used explosives sewn into clothing and detonated with a chemical trigger, which is harder to detect than a traditional metal trigger...
...expect. No one would claim, of course, that the position of women in the Middle East in general is one that inspires confidence. But across the region - and often defying Western preconceptions - the battle for equality is making gains. (See pictures of the changing roll of women in Saudi Arabia...