Links 12 December 2010

Saddam Hussein and US Ambassador April Glaspie

• Blinkered View of Iraq: Diplomats Were Misled by Saddam's 'Cordial' Manner - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
  Revisiting the Saddam / April Glaspie pre-Kuwait invasion moment via Wikileaks - fascinating.
• Arab Media & Society
  There's a bunch of new articles at the always excellent Arab Media & Society.
• The Associated Press: Egypt's Mubarak says elections were fine
  NDP won elections because of superior organizational skill, says Mubarak.

• Hamza Hendawi named AP's Cairo bureau chief
  Mabrouk to Hamza Hendawi, AP's new Cairo bureau chief!
• On Nixon Tapes, Disparaging Remarks About Ethnic Groups - NYTimes.com
  Nixon: Irish mean drunks, Italians wonderful but stupid, Jews obnoxious, blacks inbred. What about Arabs ya baba Nixon?
• Al-Ahram Weekly | Region | Showdown in Khartoum
  Sudan: Bashir, the ICC indictment, and possibilities of a deal.
• The El-Masri Cable—By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine)
  Good overview of Wikileaks cables relating to the Khaled al-Masri case and US-German relations.
• Egypt’s Rigged Elections
  Typical neocon: only care about Egypt and democracy as a means to attack Obama.
• Pakistani Ambassador hosted fundraiser for neocon think-tank | The Middle East Channel
  Why is the Pakistani ambassador in US hosting neocon think tank FDD?