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Experts Warn of Security Risks in Financial Downturn

Intelligence officials are warning that the deepening global financial crisis could weaken fragile governments in the world's most dangerous areas and undermine the ability of the United States and its allies to respond to a new wave of security threats.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-14-2008
Right Turn in July Put McCain on Unfamiliar Path

John McCain's campaign was meandering through the summer, one day focusing on the Everglades, the next on Iraq and hardly ever on Barack Obama, when a small group of top advisers took the candidate aside and told him to make a choice.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-05-2008
Safety in Numbers? Poll-Driven Press Goes Out on a Limb

The network maps are bathed in blue, the pundits contemplating a landslide, the conservative columnists preparing for the indignities of an Obama administration.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 10-19-2008
As Iraq's Oil Flows Freely, Profits Are Stuck in Bureaucracy

BAGHDAD -- Qassim Frez, a senior Iraqi civil servant, has a problem officials in Washington might envy. Iraq has piled up tens of billions of dollars from oil sales, and its bureaucrats are struggling to spend the windfall.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 10-16-2008
U.S. Military Plans Polls and Focus Groups in Iraq

The U.S. military is planning a large polling and focus-group operation in Iraq over the next three years to help "build robust and positive relations with the people of Iraq and to assist the Iraqi people in forming a new government," according to a proposal seeking private contractors for...

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 10-11-2008
Wall Street Greed? Not in This Neighborhood.

NEW DELHI -- With freshly cut keys to their new brick-and-cement homes, families in an impoverished settlement on the outskirts of India's capital honored a surprising hero this week: Richard S. Fuld Jr., head of the now-defunct Wall Street giant Lehman Brothers.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 10-10-2008
In Ordeal as Captive, Character Was Shaped

HANOI The lake into which John McCain parachuted after his Navy plane was shot down is now surrounded by chic restaurants, cellphone stores and motorcycle dealerships. The prison camp where he confessed to being a "black criminal" has been turned into a multiplex cinema showing garish American...

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 10-04-2008
U.S. to Fund Pro-American Publicity in Iraqi Media

The Defense Department will pay private U.S. contractors in Iraq up to $300 million over the next three years to produce news stories, entertainment programs and public service advertisements for the Iraqi media in an effort to "engage and inspire" the local population to support U.S. objectives...

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 10-02-2008
In U.N. Speech, Bush Focuses on Terrorism

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 23 -- On a day when other world leaders largely focused on the global economic crisis, President Bush sought to turn the attention of the United Nations to his core foreign policy goals of fighting terrorists and promoting freedom around the world.

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 09-23-2008
Economic Fears Give Obama Clear Lead Over McCain in Poll

Turmoil in the financial industry and growing pessimism about the economy have altered the shape of the presidential race, giving Democratic nominee Barack Obama the first clear lead of the general-election campaign over Republican John McCain, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News nat...

Posted to washingtonpost.com (Weblog) by washingtonpost.com on 09-23-2008

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