Blackwater Seeps Into the Campaign For The Nation, Jeremy Scahill writes, "Hillary Clinton has just become the most significant US political figure to come out in favor of banning Blackwater and other armed private security contractors from operating in Iraq."
The Kurdish Imbroglio Writing for Montreal's Le Devoir, Serge Truffaut evokes the concatenation of events that is mightily straining the Iraqi Kurds' relations with the outside world.