During a speech on Sunday, Ahmadinejad ordered the head of Iran's Atomic Energy Agency to figure out how to enrich the country's uranium to a more easily weaponized level. Some doubt that Iran even has the capability to carry out such enrichment, but the country's leaders likely hope that Ahmadinejad's remarks will give them leverage in negotiations with the West.
ISAF has spent months hyping Operation Moshtarak as the mother of all battles. But why is the Taliban talking up the Marja offensive? To draw ISAF further into a battle that's likely to be expensive -- and unlikely to lead to any major strategic gains.
An Iraqi appeals court has overturned the de-Ba'athification commission decision that banned 766 candidates from Iraq's March 7 parliamentary election. The court's ruling does say that the once-banned candidates will be subject to judicial review -- for Ba'ath links -- if they win the election.
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