- Pakistan has banned hundreds of anti-Musharraf blogsites, and Musharraf has passed a new law that makes cyber terrorism, among other online crimes, punishable with death.
- A training course for Canadian diplomats has described the US as a country where prisoners are at risk of torture, and classifies some US interrogation techniques (forced nudity, isolation, sleep deprivation) as torture.
- Michael Massing writes about the actions of US soldiers in Iraq
- Opium fields are spreading in parts of Iraq.
- An emerging Sunni-Shiite nationalist bloc in Iraq has signed a groundbreaking agreement aimed at ending Iraq's civil war, blocking the privatization of Iraq's oil industry, and wants the Nuri al-Maliki government to meet various reconciliation "benchmarks" or be swept out of office.
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