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While I guess not surprising, this is MAJOR!

Semi-related:

Musharraf loses election in Pakistan. This is pretty major too!

Bhutto at a rally minutes before being assassinated.

Earlier today. Details via the NY Times here.

I wonder how the Bush administration will deal with this (not really a) curve ball when its possible that their so-called 'Ally in the War on Terror' Musharraf may have had something to do this and they still have an Iraq and Iran-focused foreign policy for that region when Pakistan is the country that actually has nuclear weapons and is in real danger of falling into the control of Islamic radical-fundamentalists. read more »

From an ABC News article by Lara Setrakian:
"Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Justice is defending a sentence of 200 lashes for the victim of a gang rape, punished because she was in the car of a male who wasn't a relative when the two were attacked.

[T]he General Court of Qatif increased the punishment to 200 lashes and six months in jail after she took her case to the press. Authorities deemed it an "attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media," according to Saudi Arabia's English-language newspaper Arab News." read more »

The Iraq war is gonna cost us $2.4 trillion!!! You got your 8-stacks share of that cost ready to go?! WTF??!!

And this is what we get for our money: Iraqi official gunned down in Baghdad.

And, in case you skipped it yesterday, let us not forget Pakistan! read more »

From an AP report by Matthew Pennington titled, "Musharraf imposes emergency measures":
"Gen. Pervez Musharraf suspended Pakistan's constitution and deployed troops in the capital Saturday, declaring that rising Islamic extremism had forced him to take emergency measures. He also replaced the nation's chief justice and blacked out the independent media that refused to support him.

Authorities began rounding up opposition politicians, cut phone lines in the capital and took all but the state television station off air despite calls from Washington and other Western allies not to take authoritarian measures. read more »

Peace in Pakistan!

Remember how Bush used to say that a 'free Iraq' (that is liberated from Saddan) would lead to a spread of freedom and democracy throughout the Middle East? So four years later, how's that strategy going?

Peace in the Middle East:

Iraq: 12 Turkish Soldiers Killed in Kurdish Rebel Attack. [NYT] read more »