Links for 16-17 October 2010

• Arab elections: Not much of a choice | The Economist
  What a depressing bunch.
• Bahrain's pre-election jitters: Backward steps | The Economist
  Looking ugly.
• Clinton aide's idea: Let Iraq shoot down U.S. plane - Salon.com
  Probably that madwoman Madeleine Albright.
• An Ex-Jihadi in the Arctic
  Thomas Hegghammer on jihad in northern Norway.

• FT.com / Libyan investment stirs unease in Italy
  Uneasy about being bought, not about taking blood money.
• Arabie Saoudite : des Chinois expulsés pour avoir fait grève | RFI
  Chinese workers expelled for striking on Mecca.