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...were truly interested in averting more sectarian spectacles, it would go back to the Security Council and ask for the establishment of a U.N. tribunal for the members of Saddam's regime still awaiting trial. Then it would airlift all of those in custody out of the Green Zone and stick them in a secure facilities outside Iraq - perhaps in some of those "black sites" the CIA says it has vac ated. The Iraqis would howl, of course, but they lost their moral credibility with last week's lynching. The Bush Administration may try to avoid responsibility for what happened...
...Maliki's inaction against Sadr and his forces is only one of a long list of things he failed to do as he sat in the Green Zone. As violence worsened, electricity grew scarcer. Water supplies remained tight. Schools stayed shut. Oil revenues didn't materialize. With so many in Iraq wanting for so much, Maliki quickly became a sort of un-prime minister as people struggled to see any signs of meaningful accomplishments by his administration...
...work of small, crude devices, but the impact of the bombings felt outsized for a nation that depends heavily on tourism and foreign investment. Bangkok and its environs serve as a regional manufacturing hub, and part of the capital's attraction had been its reputation as a terror-free zone in a region where security threats are omnipresent. Complicating matters, the country's financial edge has been blunted lately by the new military-installed government, which is making foreign investment in Thailand more difficult-just as countries like China, India and even Vietnam are rolling out the red carpet...
...from a recent U.N. report. "Well then what are all these people doing here?" she said with a laugh. "Iraq has about 27 million people in it. Give it some time, and it will empty out," I said, keeping a straight face. "I live in Baghdad, outside the Green Zone, and it's not a happy place." Her smile vanished. "No," she said. "Not a happy place...
...list goes on. Iraq's judiciary clearly is not independent ? the Shi'a-led council of ministers has appointed and removed the tribunal's judges according to political whim. Saddam's trial was conducted inside the Green Zone, protected by American forces and paid for by American money. The U.S. Department of Justice was integral to the prosecution's investigation and training the tribunal's judges and lawyers...