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Foreign
UN truce implementation Syria rebels give 48-hour ultimatumDamascus—The rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) has given the government of President Bashar al-Assad a 48-hour deadline to observe a UN ceasefire plan. The FSA’s Colonel Qassim Saadeddine said if there was no response by Friday lunchtime the FSA would consider itself “no longer bound by the.. peace plan”. The plan calls on government forces to withdraw to barracks. On Wednesday, UN observers confirmed the discovery of 13 shooting victims near the city of Deir el-Zour.16 dead in Baghdad bombingsBaghdad—A spate of bombings in Baghdad on Thursday killed at least 16 people and wounded dozens more, shattering a relative calm with the capital’s deadliest violence in weeks. Roadside bombs and explosives-packed cars detonated across a half-dozen neighb ourhoods in the north, south and west of Baghdad, underlining persistent security concerns even as international energy companies met in the centre of the capital to bid on nationwide oil and gas exploration blocks.Shootings leave 6 dead in already jittery SeattleSeattle—A city already anxious about a recent spate of shootings was rattled further when a man walked into an arts cafe near a Seattle university and opened fire, fatally wounding four people. Police say he later killed a woman during a carjacking before shooting himself. As officers closed in during a widespread manhunt on Wednesday, the suspect put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. He died at a hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said.Reformed Islam: Between hatred and critical thinkingM. Syafi’i Anwar ARE Indonesian Muslims committed to a reformed Islam? This question arose during an informal discussion among Indonesian post-graduate students at Harvard’s Science Center cafe recently. It was not easy to answer that question as they had recently been following the Irshad Manji saga and the increasing threat of Muslim hard-liners in Indonesia.
Along with the hard-liners’ success in failing Lady Gaga’s planned concert in Jakarta, another crucial question was asked: Where is Indonesia heading? No one could answer that question.
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