http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/20/malikis-sectarian-arrests-fuel-another-political-crisis-in-iraq/
The official also said that the border crossings into Afghanistan, closed to NATO supplies since November, would likely be reopened around the same time, but that US drones would never be allowed to be deployed inside Pakistan.
Yesterday it was revealed that Maliki’s government had arrested more than 1,000 political opponents in recent months, almost exclusively Sunni Arab members of the Iraqiya bloc, the largest political faction in Iraq. Many were victims of torture, and a number appear to have been aimed at extracting confessions implicating former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.
http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/20/libyan-islamists-secularists-in-dueling-rallies-on-future-of-libyan-legal-system/
Very little in the way of progress toward any legal system at all has been made in Libya since the NATO-backed revolution, with open-ended detentions of anyone suspected of ties with or even sympathies for the former regime and no signs that any trials will be happening soon.
http://news.antiwar.com/2012/01/20/pakistan-us-military-trainers-will-be-allowed-back-but-not-drones/
A new report by Fox News tonight is quoting a top Pakistani official as saying that the government is preparing to invite US military trainers back into the nation “as early as April or May.” The troops were expelled last year as relations between the two nations collapsed.
The official also said that the border crossings into Afghanistan, closed to NATO supplies since November, would likely be reopened around the same time, but that US drones would never be allowed to be deployed inside Pakistan.
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