Sunday reading.......

(WaPo) "Almost eight years after al-Qaeda nearly sank the USS Cole with an explosives-stuffed motorboat, killing 17 sailors, all the defendants convicted in the attack have escaped from prison or been freed by Yemeni officials....."

(WaPo) Analysts Divided on Clinton's Arab Defense Plan. (And no real answer as to why, if it was an intentional policy statement, she surprisingly revealed it as part of a debate answer.)

In Iraq, 4 US soldiers killed in Anbar Thursday, no details released, and a US missile hit a building in Sadr City right next to a hospital that wounded many (McClatchy, NYTimes, and AP.)