NSN Daily Update 4/24/2009 Posted by The Editors

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What We’re Reading

Following a FOIA lawsuit filed by the ACLU, the Obama administration will release photographs of alleged abuse in U.S. prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan. The New York Times looks at the decision-making behind the release of the torture memos.

Problems have arisen in efforts to move a large group of Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen, where Obama administration officials are skeptical of rehabilitation and security efforts.

Two days of bombings in Iraq have killed more than 135.

Taliban militants leave the Buner district in northwest Pakistan the day after Pakistani politicians and American officials “question the government’s willingness to deal with insurgents.”

Head of the United Nations nuclear agency Mohamed ElBaradei announced that North Korea is a “fully fledged nuclear power.” Meanwhile, North Korea will try American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee for allegedly entering the country illegally and committing “hostile acts.”

International donors in Brussels pledge more than $250 million to Somalia to help with “law enforcement, humanitarian aid and possibly a coast guard,” as Kenya emerges as a possible location for a piracy criminal court.

US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice will serve as the keynote speaker for an international summit on Malaria, to take place on the eve of World Malaria Day, committing the US to becoming “a global leader in ending deaths from malaria by 2015.”

Commentary of the Day

Phillip Zelikow explains why torture may work, but also outlines the drawbacks.

Paul Krugman give his take on why the torture debate is about much more than national security policy.

The Washington Post discussed the trade offs of prosecuting crimes versus maintaining a tradition of not recriminating previous presidential administration’s policies.

The Financial Times explain why the memos justifying torture gave a victory to terrorists and how President Obama ought to fix the situation.

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