From LA's NBC4-TV, Nov. 2:

FORT HUACHACA, Ariz. — The federal government has unveiled a new multimillion-dollar gadget to patrol and protect the U.S.-Mexican border.

From India's Daily News & Analysis (DNA), Nov. 2:

LAHORE: The October 30 pre-dawn air strike on a religious seminary in the Bajaur Agency on the Pak-Afghan border was carried out by US predator drones to sabotage the signing of yet a another peace deal between the Pakistan Army and the Taliban backed militants, which was to be inked a few hours later inside the compound of the Madrassa Ziaul Uloom where 82 people were killed as a result of the deadly missile attack.

From Raw Story, Nov. 1, emphasis added:

During an interview with conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh, US President George Bush expressed deep concerns about the possibility of the United States leaving the Middle East, raising fears that extremists could topple governments to "control oil resources."

From AP, Nov. 2:

BAGHDAD - An Iraqi journalist who was kidnapped last month was found dead nearly two weeks after his abduction, a media advocacy group said Thursday.

From AP, Nov. 2:

BAGHDAD - On a dangerous road north of Baghdad, Sunni militants took advantage of a traffic jam to carry off the latest in the series of sectarian crimes yesterday - abducting some 40 Shia based on a check of their identity cards.

Iran's Holocaust cartoon contest was an atrocious and juvenile tit-for-tat for the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten's almost equally stupid and insensitive Mohammed cartoon contest. But the cartoon they finally chose as winner sounds like it was making a legitimate point. Israel really does use the legacy of the Holocaust to mask and justify oppression and expropriation of the Palestinians. Is it verboten to point this out? From AP, Nov. 1:

From Turkey's Zaman, Nov. 2:

A 92-year-old retired Turkish archaeologist has been acquitted in a rights trial in which she was accused of "inciting hatred by insulting people based on their religion.”

In his first public appearance upon his arrival in Chihuahua City on his tour of northern Mexico, Subcommander Marcos announced the Zapatista rebels' total support for the people of Oaxaca "and their most diginifed representative, the Popular People's Assembly of Oaxaca (APPO)." Marcos said from the city's central Revolution Park, "As of today, the federales have killed at least three people, including a minor; left dozens injured, including several Oaxacan women; and detained dozens, who have been illegally held in military prisons." In a communique, the General Command of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) called for the immediate resignation of Oaxaca's Gov. Ulises Ruiz, the total withdrawal of all federal police forces, the unconditional release of all the detained, and the apprehension and punishment of the assassins." The statement said Zapatista militants would begin blocking roads in Chiapas to press these demands Nov. 1. (La Jornada, Oct. 31)