A recent assignment of mine covering Israel’s presumed links to the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh provoked some more thoughts about the New York Times reporter Ethan Bronner. He is the Jerusalem bureau chief who has been at the center of a...
Another Bureaucratic Paperweight
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published its first Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR) [.pdf]. The QHSR – patterned after the Department of Defense's Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) – was mandated by Congress and directed the secretary of DHS...
War Politics: Numb and Number
Guantánamo Deaths Deserve a Closer Look
Did three detainees at Guantánamo die of suicide or homicide? According to the Pentagon, three Guantánamo prisoners hung themselves in their individual cells on the night of June 9, 2006, in order to commit an act of "asymmetrical warfare." But that official...
Four Gitmo Prisoners Released to Albania, Spain
Thursday: 6 Iraqis Killed, 5 Wounded
What’s In a Name?
Swat Residents Try to Make Life as Normal as Possible
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Amid news of the Pakistani government's arrest of another Taliban leader and a suicide attack in the volatile Swat district this month, residents here are bent on making the most out of a life that has been returning to as close to normal as...


