> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.opendemocracy.net/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Three months on, Baghdad still not secured - URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/security-briefs-6/ - Published: 2007-06-03T23:06:00.000Z - Updated: 2019-02-14T22:56:19.000Z - Author: terrorism.openDemocracy Terrorism.opendemocracy - Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 19:37 **Return of the prodigal daughter?** Former Pakistani prime minister [**Benazir Bhutto**](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/04/world/asia/04bhutto.html?ex=1338609600&en=e671214c09080e25&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&ref=opendemocracy.net) is poised to end her exile and return to engage in national politics. She is styling herself as the country's saviour as Pakistan slips further towards anarchy and the regime of President Pervez Musharraf looks increasingly unsteady. Kanishk Tharoor was less than impressed by Bhutto's [**playing to the gallery**](http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Playing%5Fto%5Fthe%5Fgallery/articleshow/1982077.cms?ref=opendemocracy.net) when she spoke in London in April. This is what he observed then. **History's manipulations** Le Monde Diplomatique explores the manipulations of history through the prism of [**Argentine-Iranian**](http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2007/03/KLICH/14500?ref=opendemocracy.net) relations. **Camp residents cut off** As fighting rages between Islamist militants and Lebanese soldiers in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, aid agencies have been unable to reach up to [**8,000 residents**](http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=72518&ref=opendemocracy.net) trapped by the ongoing clashes. **Security push in Baghdad falls short** American military commanders in Iraq are concerned that the intensified security surge in the capital [**Baghdad**](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/04/world/middleeast/04surge.html?ex=1338609600&en=74f08f5ec541678a&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&ref=opendemocracy.net) has fallen short of its targets. After three months, only a third of the city remains in US and Iraqi control. Shia tribal elders, clergy and other officials are setting up [**temporary schools**](http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=72517&ref=opendemocracy.net) across the south of Iraq so that school children don't lose yet another year to the instability of war. **Birth in captivity shocks Colombia** Colombia has been shaken by the news that a hostage gave birth to a baby while in [**FARC captivity**](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/world/americas/03colombia.html?ex=1338523200&en=ba2d94dd22dc4d0b&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&ref=opendemocracy.net). News of the three year-old Emmanuel leaked out when a policeman long held by FARC managed to escape from their custody recently. **Protest and violence in southern Thailand** The insistent protests of Muslims in a mosque have secured the establishment of an [**investigative panel**](http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007/06/04/headlines/headlines%5F30035962.php?ref=opendemocracy.net) to determine the extent of the harassment of Muslims by Thai soldiers in the restive south of the country. Suspected separatist Islamist militants have [**derailed**](http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007/06/04/headlines/headlines%5F30035953.php?ref=opendemocracy.net) a train in the southern province of Yala, injuring twenty people. **LRA a force to reckon with** UN officials point out that the Ugandan rebel group the [**Lord's Resistance Army**](http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=72471&ref=opendemocracy.net) has had a "massive impact" on the region, leaving lasting impressions well beyond Uganda's borders. **The northern Iraq obsession** Turkish journalists suspect that Ankara's concern with the infiltration of [**Kurdish rebel fighters**](http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=113043&ref=opendemocracy.net) across the Iraqi border will continue to dominate headlines in Turkey through the summer. Northern Iraq has become an inseparable part of Turkey's larger strategic [**security vision**](http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=113044&ref=opendemocracy.net). **Pirates execute hostage off Somali coast** Somali pirates have [**executed**](http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking%5Fnews/breaking%5Fnews%5F%5Fafrica/&articleid=310320&ref=opendemocracy.net) one of the hostages they've been holding since mid-May from a Taiwanese-flagged shipping vessel. [**Seven people**](http://www.dawn.com/2007/06/04/rss.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net#11) have been killed in ongoing violence in Mogadishu. **Foiled terror plot fallout continues** The hunt continues in the United States for the fourth member of an alleged [**bomb plot**](http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking%5Fnews/breaking%5Fnews%5F%5Finternational%5Fnews/&articleid=310298&ref=opendemocracy.net) to destroy a fuel pipeline leading into New York City. The conservative [**Counterterrorism blog**](http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/06/the%5Fthreat%5Fof%5Fhomegrowns.php?ref=opendemocracy.net) warns about the threat of "homegrowns" to US security. **UK needs better imams** As his time as prime minister draws to a close, Tony Blair is holding a conference on how to improve the quality of [**Islamic instruction in the United Kingdom**](http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,,2094977,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront&ref=opendemocracy.net).