Foreign Affairs: Congress and the Presidency

--The (London) Sunday Times p. 1, "Afghan to hang for being Christian," by Miles Amoore: "Said Musa, 45, is being held in a prison in Kabul where he claims he has been tortured and sexually abused by fellow inmates and prison guards. Musa, whose left leg was blown off by a landmine in fighting in the 1990s, specialises in rehabilitating fellow landmine victims. He was detained eight months ago as he tried to seek asylum at the German embassy after an order by President Hamid Karzai to purge Christians. ... Musa's ordeal began last May when a television station broadcast pictures of other Afghans being baptised in Kabul. ... Karzai instructed the head of Afghanistan's spy service and his interior minister to 'take immediate and serious action to prevent this phenomenon,' according to Waheed Omar, his spokesman. ... In desperation, Musa wrote to human rights groups, embassies and US President Barack Obama ... Following pressure from the American embassy, the authorities moved Musa to another jail, where he now sleeps in the corridor outside the head guard's office to avoid further beatings. ... His requests for a Bible have been refused. ... Western groups have deliberately remained silent because they fear that any public campaign could further infuriate a government that increasingly blames foreign interference for the country's woes." (Behind pay wall)