• British are going to a build training camp for Taliban fighters in Afghanistan
  

  Britain planned to build a Taliban training camp for 2,000 fighters in southern Afghanistan, as part of a top-secret deal to make them swap sides, intelligence sources in Kabul have revealed. The plans were discovered on a memory stick seized by Afghan secret police in December.

• Congress just provide as much as $75 million worth of equipment, supplies and training to “build the capacity” of the Pakistan Frontier Corps. Can you say “Mujahadeen”?

• Baghdad is drowning in sewage
  

  One of three sewage treatment plants is out of commission, one is working at stuttering capacity while a pipe blockage in the third means sewage is forming a foul lake so large it can be seen “as a big black spot on Google Earth,” said Tahseen Sheikhly, civilian spokesman for the Baghdad security plan.

and that’s just from this morning.