by Marc Lynch | Jan 31, 2013 | Monitor
Or my Alt-Title: What We Talk About When We Talk About Supporting Egyptian Democracy. This post is simply to point my blog readers over to my weekly Thursday column, which is entitled "The Egyptian Treadmill: Why Washington Isn’t Panicking About...
by Robert Bunker | Jan 31, 2013 | Monitor
By: Robert Bunker Via Borderland Beat: "For more than 48 hours armed men held the entire town of Marcos Castellanos hostage, killing two people and kidnapping a police officer. After the attack most…
by Spencer Ackerman | Jan 31, 2013 | Monitor
If Chuck Hagel wins approval in the Senate to run the Pentagon, as President Obama desires, it’ll be despite his performance in his confirmation hearing on Thursday, not because of it. The former Nebraska Republican senator stumbled through questions ranging...
by The Long War Journal | Jan 31, 2013 | Monitor
Faqir Mohammed. Image courtesy of AfPax Insider. Faqir Mohammed, the former emir in Bajaur of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, has returned to the fold after his dismissal a year ago for conducting negotiations with the Pakistani government. Faqir is close to...
by Danielle Parillo | Jan 31, 2013 | Monitor
ASP: In case you missed it …. 31 January 2013 Iran ‘plans to upgrade enrichment equipment’ BBC Iran has told the UN nuclear agency it plans to upgrade uranium enrichment centrifuges at its Natanz plant, reports citing diplomats say. Egypt...
