Word: fearfully
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...Sadly, probably not. Those campaigners who were among the loudest in calling for the resignation of the police commissioner, Major General Mohammed Hussein Ali, fear that his dismissal is merely an attempt by the government to paper over the problems that have plagued the police force for years. They say it may be part of a conspiracy to pre-empt demands for more radical reform that are expected to emerge in the coming days. (Read "Kenya's Unfinished Reckoning...
...fundamental problem with the government's attitude toward reform: aside from vague promises of change, no one seems to have acknowledged that several investigations - domestic and foreign - have found strong evidence that the police in Kenya are a law unto themselves, taking hostages, collecting bribes and killing with little fear of punishment. (Read "Kenya: Protesting Politics As Usual...
...suddenly worthless Lehman debt. London-based hedge funds that relied on Lehman for day-to-day financing found themselves unable to do business because their accounts with Lehman's U.K. subsidiary were frozen. Similar dislocations played out around the world. Before long, financial institutions were paralyzed by fear. They simply didn't trust each other anymore, and didn't want to lend to each other. The financial system proved too fragile to handle the stress. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...further U.S. involvement with the ICC and international law? The decision about the ICC treaty has to be made by the President of the U.S. In 2002, Congress passed the American Service Member's Protection Act that prohibited U.S. cooperation in the ICC in many areas. [There was a fear that U.S. soldiers could be targeted in politically motivated prosecutions.] But it also included a provision that U.S. authorities could cooperate to bring to trial individuals like [former Yugoslav President] Slobodan Milosevic. I think you can expect that the current Administration won't go back on what the second Bush...
...related but deeper fear is that Iran has the means to make life exceedingly unpleasant for Pakistan should it side with Tehran's enemies. Already struggling with a militant campaign that has ravaged the northwest and the tribal areas and terrorized major cities, Pakistan, analysts say, can ill-afford a revival of sectarian violence that plagued the country during the 1980s, when Saudi-backed Sunni militant groups clashed with Iranian-backed Shi'ite ones as part of a regional proxy war. Says Ayesha Siddiqa, an independent security analyst: "It isn't just Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan where Iran can create...