White House, in unusual move, gives names of 50 Gitmo prisoners cleared for release; riots at Foxconn factory in China....--French employees of Apple plan protests in support of Foxconn workers
--MEK is removed from State Dept. terrorist list, after lobbying by well-connected Beltway bandits of both parties; if the NDAA were invoked, these people would be locked up; NBC reports MEK has helped assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists
--UN General Assemly draws Iran's Ahmadinijad and Israel's Netanyahu, who is campaigning for Romney while in the US
--Gareth Porter breaks news: Iranian diplomat offered to stop uranium enrichment at 20% if sanctions are lifted
--60 Minutes interviews Romney and Obama in same show
--Ralph Reed, discredited evangelical activist, is redeemed and has $12 million to support Romney
--Sunday's NY Times has long recap of our exit from Iraq, reports we tried to dump Maliki for Allawi
--Prof. Juan Cole blogs criticism of Bill Maher's "blood libel" of Muslims, as PBC mentions news article where new Egyptian leader is labelled "Islamist"
--a letter from Gov. Don Siegelman in prison
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