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• Rioting and violence continue in Iran, where much of the rioting and violence has been by the state itself.
• The U.S. is now officially on its own in Iraq.
• Daled Amos details how dishonest the mainstream media's reporting from Gaza has tended to be.
• Danish police stopped an al-Shabaab assassination attempt against cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, one of the Jyllands-Posten Mohammed cartoonists.
• A U.S. judge threw out charges against four Blackwater mercenaries accused of massacring Iraqi civilians. The prosecution had tried to use statements that the defendants made under duress.
• The P.L.O. is celebrating the anniversary of the January 1, 1965 bombing of Israel's main aqueduct as "the start of the Palestinian revolution."
• Duke University lists creative works that would have entered the public domain this year were it not for extensions to U.S. copyright law since the 1970s.
• Wired describes how the U.S. Department of Energy's algae biofuel program was neglected to the point that several strains of algae were lost.
• The U.S. Transportation Security Agency issued, and later retracted, subpoenas to two news reporters who received copies of a recently issued security memorandum.
• The U.S. has awarded International Business Machines Corporation a patent on the use of acronyms.
• The Wilson Center reminds us that Central Asia was once a major center of science and learning.
• The facts are light on this story, but there is room to suspect that a Canadian man was sentenced to 30 days in prison for what may have been no more than flying while Arab and otherwise acting like a normal human being.