NSN Daily Update 1/27/09 Posted by The National Security Network

See today's complete daily update, "A New Tone and Approach to the Muslim World," here.

What We’re Reading

The E.U. promises to help the U.S. close Guantanamo, but did not offer specifics such as whether nations would accept ex-detainees.  While attention has been on Guantanamo, Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan presents just as complicated a situation, if not more so.

Islamist forces captured Baidoa, the seat of the Somali parliament, only hours after Ethiopian peacekeeping troops withdrew from the city.

Diyala Province, Iraq, illustrates some of the challenges for the upcoming provincial elections on Saturday, January 31.

Over 70,000 lost their jobs yesterday in both the U.S. and abroad. Meanwhile, the head of the IMF rebuked China for undervaluing the Yuan.

Commentary of the Day

Richard Cohen argues for the creation of a blue-ribbon commission with subpoena power to investigate the Bush administration’s use of torture.

Mackubin Thomas Owens says we should develop a flexible military, planning for a combination of conventional and irregular warfare.

A Financial Times piece examines what a Eurozone crisis would look like and argues that "if the EU itself does not become the target of political unrest, some other part of the political system is bound to come under pressure.”

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