Links 14-16 February 2012

A bunch of different things.

• Disarming Libya’s Militias - Sada
• Policing Reform & Reforming Police - SadaExum & Stuster advocate a US role in Egypt and Tunisia police reform.
• (Un)Historic Errors: Bahrain One Year On
• Assad calls vote on new 'democratic' constitution - The NationalPathetic.
• Jadaliyya Launches Syria Page
• Egypt on the Brink: An Exclusive Look at the Hunted Men Who Brought Growth and ReformJudith Miller paints a flattering portrait of YBG.
• Q&A: Nir Rosen on Syria's protest movement - Al Jazeera English
• AFP: US lawmakers warn US-Egypt ties nearing 'precipice'
• Egypt and the growing problem of global inflation - Term Sheet
• After surviving sectarian mob, Egyptian Christians expelled from village - CSMonitor.comBy Kristen Chick
• No Arab Spring for Egypt's Bedouin - Opinion - Al Jazeera EnglishOn Bedouins in Sinai.
• The Political Outlook for Syria | Chatham House
• Coptic evictions test Egyptian Islamists - FT.com
• Fayza Abul Naga Presses Inquiry Against U.S. in Egypt - NYTimes.comNYT gives perhaps too much power to F.A.N.
• The Dilemmas of Israeli Power - NYTimes.comCohen on Beinart's new book on Zionism.
• A paid killer in Syria describes his work - CNN.com
  A paid killer in Syria describes his work #cnn
• Direct negotiations: Recipe for prolonging the occupationNoam Sheizaf.
• L'Hôte: because policing the discourse is punk rock
  Best riposte I've seen to Spencer Ackerman's piece on Isr-1ers.
• Friends disappear as vengeance still stalks across Libya - The NationalMust-read on revenge killings in Libya.
• Report: Moroccan student sentenced to 3 years in prison for insulting king in online video - The Washington Post
• Egypt Cabinet Minister Says US Funded Nonprofits To Create Chaos | Fox NewsF.A.N. must go!
• Save Us from the Liberal Hawks - By David Rieff | Foreign PolicyWow.
• Freedom & Justice Party FJP
  Recommendations of The Committee on Defense and National Security
• Former Head of Algeria's Military Dies - ABC News
  Shadowy member of shadowy #Algeria military elite dies; created15,000-man anti-terrorism force