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...weighing up the likelihood of a successful prosecution against the costs to the taxpayer falls to Baroness Scotland, Britain's Attorney General. That process could itself take weeks, with any resulting case unlikely to come before a judge until next year. "Going the route of formal prosecution is certainly not an easy cut-and-dried process for the SFO," Howard Wheeldon, a senior strategist and aerospace expert at BGC Partners in London, wrote in a note to clients Thursday. Moreover, he suspects, "if BAE allows it to come to court they feel they have a pretty good chance of success...
...spokesman Jeff A. Neal wrote in an e-mailed statement that the groups have no set deadline for the recommendations, though he expects that the process will continue into next semester “if necessary.” In contrast, a timeline posted on the FAS planning Web site in June designated the end of October as the deadline for working groups to draft recommendations for FAS’ top academic deans...
...Zazi take this step? "It's sometimes difficult to determine exactly at what point it was that somebody becomes radicalized and then decides to become a terrorist," a senior Obama Administration official tells TIME. "Usually it's an evolutionary process." And what does it mean to have an Afghan immigrant take up al-Qaeda's cause? The worst-case scenario, according to experts, is that Zazi may represent an effort by the Taliban to expand its attacks on U.S. interests. Robert Grenier, a former CIA station chief in Pakistan, believes the Taliban's worldview has changed since...
Given Polanski's decision to fight his extradition and the fact that three countries are involved in the process, he most likely will not set foot on U.S. soil for some time. Polanski is currently being held by Swiss authorities, although his lawyers filed a motion for his release - the first in what will probably be a long legal battle with a lot of paperwork...
...this week's talks, Iran's representatives are likely to subtly hint of cooperation to come - but only if talks continue. However, such gestures do not mean Iran is prepared to offer meaningful concessions and impose any restraints on its nuclear ambitions." And the most distasteful aspect of the process may be that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad uses the talks to burnish the legitimacy of a regime at odds with millions of its own people...