Hope and Fear in Iraq: The political picture clears, but ...

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... life has become hazardous for women

By Bidisha Banerjee and David Wallace-Wells
Posted Monday, Feb. 28, 2005, at 3:24 PM PT

Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report, March 7
Iraqi politics. Women may have been better off under Saddam's regime than they are under the current political climate, argues Newsweek. In recent months, Sunni extremists have been assassinating outspoken, independent women. <snip>

Perception and reality in wartime. Even some Justice Department officials will admit that there isn't a solid case against Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, the 23-year-old U.S. citizen accused of plotting to assassinate President Bush, Newsweek claims. It goes on to make light of the evidence against the Abu Ali, pointing out that a subscription to the pro-Bush magazine Handguns is one of the strikes against him. <snip>

Mother Jones, March-April 2005
Slate's Emily Bazelon investigates torture charges in American prisons in Afghanistan: Hundreds of prisoners claim to have been sexually abused and harshly beaten during interrogation, and at least eight people have died in U.S. custody ("in at least two cases, the military ruled that these deaths were homicides"). <snip>

http://slate.msn.com/id/2114152/