Zarqawi Near-Capture
IRAQ NEWS
Official: Zarqawi Eludes Capture; Computer Discovered
Iraq's Most Wanted Fugitive on the Run After Leaving Behind Valuable Information. (ABCNEWS)
Iraq's PM-Designate Drafts Cabinet List
After months of haggling over the makeup of Iraq's post-Saddam Hussein government, Prime Minister-designate Ibrahim al-Jaafari drafted a proposed list of Cabinet ministers and will submit it to the president, a spokesman said Tuesday. (AP)
U.S. Closes Book on Iraq WMD Hunt
The US chief weapons inspector, Charles Duelfer, has said inquiries into weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have "gone as far as feasible". (BBC)
Report Finds No Evidence Syria Hid Iraqi Arms
U.S. investigators hunting for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have found no evidence that such material was moved to Syria for safekeeping before the war, according to a final report of the investigation released yesterday. (Washington Post)
U.S. Clears Troops Over Italy Death
US military investigators have cleared American soldiers of any wrongdoing over the killing of an Italian agent at a Baghdad checkpoint, an official says. (BBC)
INVESTIGATIONS
U.S.
Suspected Afghan Drug Kingpin Is Arrested
A reputed Afghan drug lord who authorities say operated with the protection of the Taliban has been captured and faces charges that he tried to smuggle more than $50 million worth of heroin into the United States, authorities said. (LA Times)
Afghanistan
Six Killed as Taliban Attack District HQ
Two Afghan policemen and four Taliban guerrillas were killed in a rebel attack on a district headquarters in the southern province of Kandahar, police said yesterday. (Arab News)
Lebanon
Syrian Intelligence Abandons Headquarters
Syrian intelligence agents abandoned their main headquarters in Lebanon, leaving the nerve center from which they had controlled much of their neighbor's affairs for 29 years. (LA Times)
LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS
U.S.
Supreme Court Declines to Hear POWs' Case
The Supreme Court yesterday declined to consider whether US prisoners of war who say they were tortured during the 1991 Gulf War should collect a $959 million judgment from Iraq. (AP)
Spain
Accused Terror Leader Denies Bin Laden Tie
Al-Qaida's suspected leader in Spain denied that he was a follower of Osama bin Laden in a second day of testimony Tuesday at his trial on charges he helped organize the Sept. 11 attacks. (The Guardian)
U.K.
British Terror Rocket Man Facing 25 Years Jail
The fate of a British businessman charged with attempting to sell anti-aircraft missiles to terrorists in the United States will today be in the hands of the jury. (The Scotsman)
Australia
Key Witness Won't Be at Terror Trial
THE committal hearing for accused terrorist Faheem Khalid Lodhi will resume in Sydney next week, without hearing evidence from a witness who allegedly associated with him at a terror training camp. (The Australian)
ANALYSIS & OPINION
Iraqi Insurgency Far from 'Fizzling'
Experts say insurgents have retaken momentum as politicians 'dither' over cabinet posts. (CS Monitor)
The Iraqi Cleavage
The distinctive feature of nepotism and disagreement over the governmental position seemed to dominate over the long negotiating process among the different Iraqi counterparts leading towards the formation of an interim government. (Al Hayat)
Jordan Fears Loss of U.S. Favour
Of all America's allies in the Arab world, Jordan must surely be one of the closest and most trusted — or so it seemed until recently. (BBC)
Still Labour, Despite Iraq
I would ask those who might be thinking of staying at home or voting for another party to remember why we have supported Labour and to reflect on who would suffer if the party fails to win its third term. (The Guardian)
Terror in the Past And Future Tense
We need to put our safety ahead of American sovereignty, and address the technology of a terrorist threat, or we won't be secure. (NY Times)
False Flags, Ethnic Bombs and Day X
Former Russian Spy Alexander Kouzminov Describes the Surreal World of Biological Espionage. (California Literary Review)
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