Links 1-3 September 2011

• Polisario after Gaddafi: The Price of Patronage | Al Akhbar English
• How Libya Seems to Have Helped the CIA with Rendition of Terrorism Suspects - TIME
  Nice piece by Abigail Hauslohner here.
• Escaping Mumana'a and the US-Saudi Counter-Revolution: Syria, Yemen, and Visions of Democracy (Interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi)
  By Ahmed Shokr and Anjali Kamat.
• The CIA’s Islamist Cover Up by Ian Johnson | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
  Johnson once again paints Islamists with a broad stroke.
• Tony Blair has major, unheralded role in Mideast talks
  In trying to avert UNGA recognition of Palestine
• Files Note Close C.I.A. Ties to Qaddafi Spy Unit
• Yemen and the spin doctors | Brian Whitaker's blog
  Bell Pottinger as always.
• Tribunal Concealed Evidence Al-Qaeda Cell Killed Hariri - IPS
  Gareth Porter says.
• Senior Bush diplomat 'advised Gaddafi regime to the end' - Telegraph
  OH, David Welch…
• How not to prolong the Syrian agony - International Crisis Group
  Peter Harling.
• "friday-lunch-club": "The Assad regime is at the top of the suspect list," in terms of who tried to kill Jeffrey Feltman"
• The failed secretary - September 2011 - Armed Forces Journal
  On Robert Gates and civil-military relations.
• What to do about Al-Jazeera? - Le Monde diplomatique - English edition
  On Jazeera and Qatar's foreign policy.
• An Idea for Inexpensive Electricity: Concentrated Solar Power 12 Miles above the Earth
  Awesome
• AP Interview: Moussa says he warned Mubarak; predicts Assad fall in Syria, spread of democracy - The Washington Post
  What a liar.
• Egypt’s Israel Problem by Yasmine El Rashidi | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
• A Lifetime of Resistance in Syria | The Nation
  Profile of Syrian activist Haitham al-Maleh.
• Al-Jama’a al-Islamiya: The battle within | Al-Masry Al-Youm
  Good insights into the group.
• gulfnews : Egyptians don't want to migrate after revolution
  Good for them.
• Ramadan talk show questions Salafi dogmas | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today's News from Egypt
  About Ahmed Abu Haiba.
• Assad Regime in Syria Crucial to Iran - Carnegie
  Karim Sadjapour
• Full: Where the Wild Frontiers Are: America comes up short in South Asia - The National
  Review of book by Chapati Mystery author.
• .:Middle East Online::Remaking the Arab State:.
  Patrick Seale.
• The September Journey part 1: Why I’m heading off
  Yuval Ben-Ami of +972 goes on an Israeli-Palestinian road trip.
• ‘International community’ lines up for Libyan energy contracts - Thenews.pl
  Even the Poles.
• The race is on for Libya's oil, with Britain and France both staking a claim
  What it was always about for Sarko and Dave.
• What Can Israel Do About Tensions With Post-Mubarak Egypt? - Steven A. Cook
  Get ahead of the game by taking lead on revising Camp David, says Cook.
• Gaddafi called Algerian president -media report | Reuters
• Torture in Bahrain Becomes Routine With Help From Nokia Siemens - Bloomberg

And then some additional links all about Islamists and ex-jihadists's role in Libya:

• Ex-Jihadists in the New Libya - By Omar Ashour | The Middle East Channel
• Libya: Expel the Salafis! Asharq Alawsat Newspaper (English)
• As Qaddafi Forces Retreat, a Newly Freed Imam Encourages Forgiveness - NYTimes.com
• M of A - Abdelhakim Belhadj And Saif al-Islam Gaddhafi
• Libye : Al-Qaida derrière la victoire de Tripoli ? - LeMonde.fr