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...marchers on Ashura the previous Sunday seemed to materialize spontaneously in Tehran and elsewhere in the country, much to the government's chagrin. They did not receive nourishment from the government, just blows - or worse. At least eight people were killed as a result of the confrontations on that day. Some oppositionists say the police opened fire on protesters - though the government denies that its forces were armed. Grainy video footage on YouTube and elsewhere apparently shows protesters crushed under the wheels of police vehicles. Other deaths were reportedly caused by falls from bridges or as a result of clashes...
...submitted to pat-downs and luggage searches, said goodbye to their in-flight Internet access and forfeited the ability to move about the cabin or rest pillows, blankets or personal belongings in their laps for the last hour aloft, among other inconveniences. But the crackdown was short-lived; by Sunday, Dec. 27, the rules had reportedly been eased, and on Dec. 30, less than a week after they were implemented, they are set to expire altogether. Should passengers be worried? (See pictures of terrorism suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab...
...make a live, on-camera comment about the near tragedy. (There is some evidence that Democratic partisans were privately pleading with the White House to say something after 24 hours.) Obama's cause was not helped by the comments of his Homeland Security chief, Janet Napolitano, who announced on Sunday, "Once the incident occurred, the system worked." Say what? Napolitano has eschewed the word terrorism for "man-caused disasters," explaining, "We want to move away from the politics of fear." That probably reflects the no-drama Obama team's desire to close the books on the George W. Bush...
...Sunday night, as he headed for dinner at swanky Alan Wong's, Obama's motorcade drove past Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children, the hospital where he was born, as well as the Baskin-Robbins where he held his first job as a teenager. Pool reports noted that Obama's motorcade was larger than normal, halting traffic along his route. Hawaii residents aren't used to visitors like this, but they coped with the disruption; in some cases motorists simply turned off their engines while waiting for the President to pass through...
Speaking near his wife's grave on Sunday, Dec. 27, Zardari railed against unnamed forces that were conspiring to derail his shaky and unpopular government and Pakistan's democracy. Writing in the Wall Street Journal the same day, Zardari said that "a litany of ancient charges of corruption - the modus operandi of past plots against every democratically elected government in Pakistan - now threatens to undermine the legitimacy of our government." The blame, he added, lies with those who refused to stand with him against terrorism and his opponents in the media...