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30 Nov 2009 21:43:42 GMT
118 Days, 12 Hours, 54 Minutes; On June 21, reporter Maziar Bahari was rousted out of bed and taken to Tehran’s notorious Evin prison—accused of being a spy for the CIA, MI6, Mossad…cAnd NEWSWEEK. This is the story of his captivity—and of an Iran whose rampant paranoia underpins an ever more fractured regime.
Evin Prison, June 21, 2009 (around 10 a.m.) The interrogator sat me in a wooden chair. It had a writing arm, like the chair I’d had in primary school. He ordered me to look down, even though I was already blindfolded: “Never look up, Mr. ...

30 Nov 2009 04:46:02 GMT
Talking with the Taliban.
There are those who say it's the fastest way out of Afghanistan. But it's easier said than done. Abdul Jameel was ready for peace. The commander of a small group of Taliban fighters in the province of Wardak, Afghanistan, Jameel was able to ...

30 Nov 2009 04:45:58 GMT
The Hell Of PTSD
Posttraumatic stress can terrorize veterans, their families and military communities. How one Navy veteran--and one Army town--is coping. In retrospect, disneyland wasn't an ideal family-vacation spot for Mark Waddell, a Navy SEAL commander ...

28 Nov 2009 20:30:04 GMT
Politics
Barack Obama delighted environmentalists by deciding that he would, after all, attend the UN summit on climate change in Copenhagen next month (he had already scheduled a trip to Oslo to pick up the Nobel peace prize). Mr Obama will offer ...

28 Nov 2009 20:30:02 GMT
Loathing Joe Lieberman
Lexington The left hates the heretical senator from Connecticut. But his may be the vote that decides health care HE IS described by Crooks and Liars, a progressive blog, as “a sleazebag, a warmongering neocon, a sanctimonious back-stabber� ...

28 Nov 2009 20:30:02 GMT
The decider
The making of the president’s foreign policy The long delay over Afghanistan suggests that Barack Obama seems determined to conduct foreign policy in person

28 Nov 2009 20:30:00 GMT
Has it won?
Syria Syria in the region Under its surprisingly durable leader, Syria has stubbornly nudged its way back into the heart of regional diplomacy. It can no longer be ignored

28 Nov 2009 20:29:59 GMT
Not quite as bloody as before
Strife in eastern Congo Strife persists in Congo’s east Despite continuing bloodshed and fear, things could be worse IN CONGO’S wild eastern provinces of North and South Kivu, hundreds of civilians have been hacked to death this year by ...

28 Nov 2009 20:29:59 GMT
Were we wrong?
Iraq, Iran, America and The Economist Iraq, Iran and America The intricacies of regional diplomacy and a strenuous American denial LAST week The Economist ran an article entitled “A regional cockpit� describing how the influence of Iraq’s ...

28 Nov 2009 20:29:59 GMT
The quiet American
American foreign policy Is Barack Obama’s diplomacy subtle and strategic, or weak and naive? The world is about to find out AT LAST Barack Obama seems to be starting to make up his mind. After months of agonising, he is apparently close to ...

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