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Coalition locks down Baghdad after Hussein war crimes verdict, but gradually learns lessons about the challenges of policing a hostile population in the long term. Verdict is interpreted as a nation-building milestone, but will go down as 'deeply flawed', and like everything else today in Iraq opinions on it divide strictly on sectarian lines. Here are some projections detailing the economics of military invasion and occupation. As Tajikistan's two-term President Rakhmonov has recently shown, in a fragile democracy the incumbent takes immense advantages to the polls. Lukashenka and Ahmadinead form an unsuprising coalition. Political corruption correlates directly with political instability.