It's a busy Monday at the International Desk: we'll kick things off with wildfires in Greece. We have crews near Athens covering the devastation and we hope to connect with witnesses on the ground.

We will then go to London where there continues to be fall-out from the decision to release convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset Al Megrahi. In an emergency session of the Scottish Parliament, the Scottish Justice minister Ken MacAskill defended his decision to release the Libyan national back to his homeland.

Interestingly, MacAskill said that Libyan officials has assured him Megrahi would receive a "low-key" welcome. Instead, he was greeted by cheering crowds, flower petals and the son of the Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi.

Also in the show, yet another bombing in Iraq. This one again targetted Shiites in a town South of Baghdad. All this violence is testing the limits to which Iraq's sects can go without succumbing to the temptation of revenge attacks. So far, Shiites have shown considerable restraint, but will there be a Samarra-style breaking point that will reignite sectarian warfare?

Sepaking of the Shias, there is a new political alliance of Shias parties sans the party of current Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki. We'll go live to Baghdad for more on what this all means.

Probably the most interesting story today: the formation of a new terrorism suspect interrogation unit overseen by the White House. This means the methods and standards for interrogating suspects will be centralized and under the direct line of control of the White House. This announcement came on the same day details from Bush-era CIA interrogations were made public, including instances when detainees were waterboarded and threatened with guns and electric drills.

Is this the end of the CIA's involvement in terrorism interrogations? Not quite. We'll go to Dan Lothian, who will be live from the Obama family's vacation spot in Martha's Vineyard in Massachussetts.

PLus, as always, the latest world, sports and weather news.

It's off to work on teh rest of the show for me.

See you on TV!

Hala

Posted by: CNN Anchor, Hala Gorani
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