As I heard a CNN debate yesterday about torture in the wake of the death of Osama Ben Laden, and the talk that water boarding of Khaled Sheik Muhammad led to the first tips of this successful mission, I couldn’t help but sense a level of radicalism portrayed by some of the guests defending water […]

In West Bank, corruption-busting teenagers shake up local government – CSMonitor.com. By Christa Case Bryant, Staff writer / September 18, 2010 Ramallah, West Bank Fatmeh Abu Afifeh doesn’t look like someone who could intimidate tough bureaucrats. Demure and only 17, she had never even spent a night away from her family until now.