Links February 9th to February 11th

Links for February 9th through February 11th:

• Saudi royal Prince Bandar Bin Sultan's assets frozen - BAE lawsuit slowl moving along
• Egypt deserves support to resolve Gaza crisis - Egyptian consul writes op-ed in SF Chronicle
• U.S. pushes Israel to accept proposed Egypt border deal - " The U.S. wants Israel to show some flexibility on Egypt's demand to add 750 soldiers to its border force, as well as to agree to Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's proposal to take over responsibility for the Israel-Gaza Strip border. "
• Cindy Sheehan in Cairo to Monitor MB Military Trial - Errr... why?
• The Arab media | How governments handle the news - The Economist on the strangulation of Arab media
• Cindy Sheehan in Cairo to Monitor MB Military Trial - Errr... why?
• The Arab media | How governments handle the news - The Economist on the strangulation of Arab media

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Links January 23rd and January 24th

Automatically posted links for January 23rd through January 24th:

• Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi : "La Mauritanie n'est pas un pays de prédilection pour les terroristes" - Afrique - Le Monde interview with Mauritanian president
• Egypt holds scores from Brotherhood over Gaza protests - Backlash against MB for organizing first major protests since 2006
• Gazans flood through Egypt border - Things are not looking good, especially as Israelis have cut fuel supplies again
• YouTube - TPMtv: War of Attrition - Excerpts from Democratic debate - some good jousting there
• The worst market crisis in 60 years - George Soros in the FT on the current financial crisis

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Links for January 6th

Automatically posted links for January 6th:

• Report: FBI translator says Israel planted nuclear 'moles' in U.S. - Another twist the Larry Franklin affair / Israeli spy operation in US
• Interview with Khalil Enani - Author of new book on Muslim Brothers
• Egypt police torture mentally handicapped boy - Can a day pass without one of these stories?
• Egypt court jails three police in abuse case - Another conviction against police torturers
• al-Qaida Videos Now on Cell Phones - Bin Laden & co. develop multimedia distribution platforms

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Links for 12-18 December

Automatically posted links for December 12th through December 18th:

• Democracy Digest - Newsletter on democracy developments in Arab world and elsewhere, current issue has article on MB
• BBC World Service | 'Free to Speak' Events - Is new media the only truly independent media in the Arab world today?
• GWOT: Egypt - Negar Azimi on Egypt and the "Global War On Terror"
• Islamist calls for boycott of Egypt billionaire - "An Islamist shaikh on Monday called for a boycott of the companies of telecommunications billionaire Naguib Sawiris for speaking out against the influence of Islam on public life in Egypt."
• YEARENDER: In Egypt, unrest will spill over into 2008 - corrected : Middle East World - In the last few months of 2007, Egypt has experienced a series of massive workers strikes, motivated by none other than poor standards of living and lack of privileges, foreboding the beginning of a possible "uprising" by Egypt's poor.
• Incumbent Regimes and the ?King?s Dilemma? in the Arab World: Promise and Threat of Managed Reform - Carnegie report says political stagnation seen as more likely outcome if regimes not serious about reform
• Arab Reform Bulletin: December 2007 - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Beyond the Façade: Political Reform in the Arab World - New book by Carnegie Endowment
• Le Monde.fr : Le 10 était parfait pour le colonel Kadhafi - On Qadhafi's visit to Paris coinciding with international human rights day
• Anthropologists on the Front Lines - TIME - TIME looks at debates in academic community about Human Terrain Teams
• The Press Association: Army chief among Beirut blast dead - Michel Suleiman successor killed

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Links for 5-6 December

Automatically posted links for December 5th through December 6th:

• CAB Advised To Audit Independent Newspapers - al-Masri al-Youm English story on a decision to have government accounting office audit independent newspaper. Is seen as an attack on freedom of the press, could provide pretexts for newspapers to be shut down or financially pressured
• 25 Al-Azhar University Students Detained Wednesday Dawn - Latest crackdown on Islamist students at al-Azhar, who in the past few months have staged sit-ins to protest the exclusion of some Islamist from the university and its dorms. MB leaders I've spoken to recently said it is becoming more difficult for them t
• Le Monde.fr : RSF récompense le blogueur égyptien Kareem Amer, emprisonné pour quatre ans - Reporters Without Borders gives Karim Amer its annual prize
• Tunisia's Ben Ali promises more democracy - METimes.com - And I promise you the moon is made of solid gold
• Shatah?An Egyptian Cleric Adored By Muslims And Americans, Unheard Of In Egypt - al-Masri al-Youm profiles up-and-coming Egyptian imam in Amreeka who is Amr Khaled fan
• Islamists Today: The Autumn of Arab Islamists - Khalil al-Anani continues to see Islamists on the decline
• Changes in Guantanamo Bay SOP manual (2003-2004) - Wikileaks - Comparison in leaked 2003 and 2004 Guantanamo Bay Standard Operating Procedures has evidence of abuses

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