NEWSRACK

Thomas at Newsrack Blog has got some great posts up; don't miss them. One is called "Sayyid Qutb's French Connection," which is a discussion of a recent article on the intellectual influences of French nobel prize winner Alexis Carrel on Sayyid Qutb, the intellectual grandfather of Al-Qaeda. And Thomas has got a couple of posts on German constitutional discussions on military force abroad, here and here. Good stuff.