Quickhits - Catch up

(AFP) Don Rumsfeld is trying to squeeze troops for Iraq and Afghanistan out of "tiny Montenegro."

(BBC) "Fifty-six Kurdish mayors have gone on trial in Turkey, charged with aiding and abetting a terrorist organisation."

(AFP) Musharraf "war gamed" a conflict with the US before joining the "war on terror." (I think this is for his domestic consumption.)

(Washington Note) It looks like the Bolton nomination is really, finally dead unless Bolton opts to continue serving without pay.

Laura Rozen notes her source says that Manuchar Ghorbanifar in back in the intelligence stream probably to the Pentagon.

(And blogger is finicky today, so posting may be irregular and unedited.)