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A truce has been achieved between Al Maliki’s Iraqi government and Muqtada al-Sadr’s ‘faction’. More, and still more from Juan Cole @ Informed Comment:

A ceasefire was formally signed on Monday between the Al-Maliki government and the Sadr movement,, which allows Iraqi forces to search Sadr City in Baghdad for medium and heavy weapons. Arabic press reports suggest that the government will need a court-ordered warrant for such searches.
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Peace talks in Djibouti between the Islamic Court Union and the Somali Transitional Federal “Government”… if you can call a CIA mercenary cell a ‘government’. Details.

Chad closes it’s border with Sudan after Sudan accuses of Chad of allowing the training on it territory of the people who committed the attack on Khartoum the other day

Mohammed al-Qahtani, the 20th 9/11 hijacker has had ALL CHARGES DROPPED, but he’s still held at the American concentration camp @ Guantanamo.

More from al Jazzera:

The Pentagon has dropped charges against a man alleged to have been the “20th hijacker” in the September 11 attacks, his US military defence lawyer has said.

Mohammed al-Qahtani, who is being held at a US military jail at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was one of six men facing murder and war crimes charges for their alleged roles in the 2001 attacks.

Bryan Broyles, al-Qahtani’s military lawyer, said on Monday that Susan Crawford, the convening authority for military commissions, dismissed the charges against al-Qahtani on Friday.

The charges were dismissed “without prejudice,” meaning they could be filed again at some point in the future. In Full

A new take on the “Right to life” movement: One of the FLDS women in Texas has given birth, and the state takes the newborn. Hearings coming up soon unless the State of Texass stalls for time.

Further, from txwordpounder @ Prairie Fire Journal

The San Antonio Express-News reported that mental health workers from the Hill Country Community Mental Health-Mental Retardation Center, who worked in the San Angelo relocation camps, “expressed varying degrees of anger toward the state’s child welfare agency for removing the children from their community, separating them from their mothers or for the way CPS workers conducted themselves at the shelter.”

The Express-News said the mental health employees had to anonymously submit their reports to the Hill Country Community MHMR board of directors because the employees were required to sign a non-disclosure agreement with CPS concerning what they saw inside the camps.

Confiscated cell phones, denial of access to reporters, Gestapo tactics, sealed affidavits, secret evidence, and non-disclosure agreements. Now that sounds like a conspiracy of silence.

What is gradually coming to light concerning the camp conditions and CPS tactics is what many bloggers such as myself had long suspected. The knee-jerk reactionaries who have supported the criminal behavior of Texas officials are ducking for cover behind a constantly evolving excuse for the abduction.

It’s gone from the alleged abuse of one girl to a sweeping fishing expedition that has produced little more than the state declaring that the mere teaching of certain beliefs is grounds enough for the children’s removal. If the state can get away with that, then we have surrendered the right of free thought to the whims of the police state. There’s More @ Prairie Fire Journal… Texas FLDS case unravels and puts state on the defensive.

In China, the People’s Liberation Army is attempting to get into the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains. There are believed to be 18,000 dead and a similar number missing.

In Burma, the current cyclone casualty count is about 30,000 with 30,000 missing.

Phillip Cunningham @ Informed Comment Global Affairs on the West’s involvement in the relief efforts for these crises:

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
WHEN THE BEST IN THE WEST GET IT WRONG
BY PHILIP J CUNNINGHAM

The earthquake in China offers those in the Western press a chance to do what they do best –report the facts, but it may also turn out to be field day for those who like to hit a country when it is down. Some good old-fashioned reporting would be a good change of pace for certain US and European news outlets, especially the recently maligned CNN, to repair reputations tattered for sloppy reporting on Tibet.

Echoes of imperial prejudices and predilections as old as British colonialism itself could be heard in many Western reports that neatly played ethnic minority off ethnic majority. Really basic mistakes, like confusing Nepal with Tibet in photos and incorrect connecting of the dots went uncorrected too long, so hungry was the appetite for images that fit preconceived notions…
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It’s also a bit disappointing to see similar neo-colonial attitudes at work in some of the Western coverage of Burma’s great tragedy. US First Lady Laura Bush set the tone, wagging her finger, finding fault in a way that eluded her ken in the case of Katrina, making veiled threats at a supine country in great distress, almost guaranteeing that US offers of aid would be viewed with suspicion and subject to delay. In Full

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[May 13 2008] Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The Himalayan Mountains - An Environmental Disaster Oriented Travelogue/Overview

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