Georgia/Russia maneuvering looks ready to deteriorate, Tbilisi making moves on the international stage and Moscow becoming masters at peacekeeping politics in separatist Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Meanwhile, Chechnya's Russian Mandarin Kadyrov continues to drift from Moscow's influence.
From Somalian and American officials, Thursday's air strike kills feared and notorious Somali al Qaeda official. Karzai attack hatched partly in Pakistan's FATA, as once-applauded governing coalition begins to splinter and rift between government and military opens further. Work of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) is effectively shut down after Eritrean intransigence: evidence that peacekeeping is conditioned on stakeholders' political commitment, and a 'blow to blue helmets everywhere'.
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