Links 1-4 October 2012

I need to dump these more often. Will have another links dump tonight at this rate.

• US court orders Iran, others to pay $6 billion for 9/11
  Ridiculous.
• Can Riots Be Predicted? Experts Watch Food Prices : The Salt : NPR
• Two Minors Placed in Juvenile Detention as Blasphemy Cases Increase in Egypt | Atlantic Council
  Disgrace.
• INTERVIEW-Islamist governor shakes up Egypt province | Reuters
  Profile of Kafr al-Sheikh governor Saad al-Husseini
• $450M in the Balance and Egypt Without a Lobbyist - Influence Alley
• Campaign group accuses Hamas of abuses - FT.com
  HRW reports.
• Egypt Struggles to Pay Oil Bill - NYTimes.com
  $6-7bn owed to IOCs.
• Constituent Assembly opponents to draft alternative constitution | Egypt Independent
  This is a bit late, isn't it.
• Turkey bombs targets in Syria | The Raw Story
• Morsy to visit Rafah's Coptic residents Friday | Egypt Independent
  Good - but he should tell his party to stop minimizing the issue.
• Egypt’s Constitutional Racers Stagger Toward the Final Lap - By Nathan J. Brown
  Hope springs eternal.
• Who is arming Sudan? « LRB blog
  On Nuba mountains conflict.
• Abu Dhabi’s Most Expensive PR Project: Masdar City « REBEL ECONOMY
• Popular Arab cinema on show - Brian Whitaker's blog
• Le Figaro - Günter Grass le provocateur récidive contre Israël
  Tant mieux.
• Syrian State TV Lashes Out at Hamas Leader - NYT
• Iran Engaged in ‘Severe Clampdown’ on Critics, U.N. Says - NYT
• Qassim Suleimani, Iran’s Master of Iraq Chaos, Still Vexes the U.S. - NYT
  Does the head of the CIA get called "Master of Chaos"?
• Anatomy of a massacre that bodes ill for Syria's future - The National
• Egypt doctors strike for better wages, services
• Egypt Salafis Lured as IMF Aid Beats AA Debt: Islamic Finance - Bloomberg
• Analysts Say Video of American Held in Syria May Have Been Staged - NYTimes.com
  On Austin Tice.
• A Trans-Atlantic Trip Turns Kafkaesque - NYTimes.com
  A good piece in the declinist genre - and it's true AA sucks.
• Bringing BDS to Egypt | SocialistWorker.org
• Mitt Romney: A New Course for the Middle East - WSJ.com
  The return of PNAC.
• Eric Hobsbawm dies, aged 95 | Books | guardian.co.uk
  Alexandria-born.
• Liberal, secular 'infidels' must be prosecuted, says Brotherhood preacher | Egypt Independent
  He's being sued by ElBaradei now.
• Indebted and overstaffed, how can state-owned papers survive? | Egypt Independent
  Good piece.
• Egypt not mulling Arab intervention in Syria: Morsi spokesman - Ahram Online
  Nevermind then.
• Israeli paper: Morsy willing to meet Israeli president after US election | Egypt Independent
  Begad?
• Sudan and South Sudan: Deal or half a deal? | The Economist
  A deal between the presidents of Sudan and South Sudan removes the prospect of an all-out war between the countries
• Political forces sign on ElBaradei call for Constituent Assembly boycott - Ahram Online
  Principled or brinksmanship?
• Moderates and Liberals Double-down on the Constitution | Atlantic Council
  I share the pessimism.
• Sinai tribes demand representation in constitution | Egypt Independent
  Representation, yes, but their own judicial system?
• Syrian president’s sister in UAE - FT.com
  So the reports were right.
• Presidential adviser: Egypt ready for conditional Arab intervention in Syria | Egypt Independent
  Distinction btw. "Arab" and "foreign" intervention.
• Who are Tunisia’s Salafis?
  I know this one - is it "fundie bastards?"