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...Africa’s other leaders may not fancy Gaddafi a higher African ruler to whom they should relinquish autonomy. His vision, however, could not be timelier. Africa has simply too many crises and areas of attention for the UN and current AU apparatus to cover. For those who envision an African community capable of handling its own problems and promoting peace, Gaddafi may prove the champion of such a dream...
...absence of such places - the titular blank spots -inherently inform us of their exact locations: "Secrets, in other words, often inevitably announce their own existence." Over the next 250 pages, Paglen goes on to sketch out a survey of the dark corners of the United States' national security apparatus from the early 20th century to today...
...change will come to Washington. To part of it, anyway. Barack Obama will take office, but another Washington fixture, the press that covered George W. Bush, will still be there: a whole roster of newly minted network White House correspondents, yes, but the same apparatus behind them...
...from outside the spy community - is that he needs a C.I.A. director untainted by the Bush Administration's policies on torture and its handling of the Iraq War. Panetta is certainly untarred in that respect, but in order to have a chance to manage the country's intelligence-gathering apparatus, he'll have to get through a potentially difficult confirmation process to be headed by Feinstein...
...homes; and despite harsh words, no serious incidents of ethnic violence has occurred in recent years. In June 2008, Bosnia signed a crucial agreement with the E.U., putting it on the road to membership. Most importantly, the country's armed forces were recently unified and, unlike Bosnia's political apparatus, put under central command. The military is taking steps to join NATO. "People do talk of another war, but I don't think it can really happen again", says Muharem Bazdulj, a prominent Sarajevo-based writer and a columnist for the daily Oslobodjenje newspaper. "The fact that the military...