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In fact, the U.S. has long been active politically and militarily in East Africa, and its presence dramatically increased after Sept. 11, 2001. In the summer of 2006, the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), an alliance of clerics and clan leaders that included several al-Itihaad al-Islamiya leaders, took...
There have been occasional public run-ins, but the two haven't talked privately since Bush was declared winner of their face-off in Dec. 2000.
Once again a military dictator has staged a coup in Pakistan. Previous coups saw the army throwing out dysfunctional governments, but in this most recent one it has broken into the Supreme Court and ransacked media offices. Its targets today are not corrupt politicians but rather the civil society of...
Within minutes of the declaration of emergency, police surrounded the Supreme Court and evicted the judges, including the chief justice, from the premises. They were then placed under house arrest, and a new, compliant judiciary was ushered in. Independent television channels—local and international—were taken...
Obama's Jefferson-Jackson dinner speech hit all the inspirational notes, with its pledge to bring Red America together with Blue America and its invocation of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "fierce urgency of now." But it was also an indictment, not only of the Bush brand of...