Josh saw this on my personal weblog [peaceclog.com] and suggested that it belonged on Registan.net as well, so here it is, slightly edited for the target audience. I’d also like to point out that I’ve met someone that reads news on the region from various blogs, but avoids Registan.net as being “too American.” Well, it takes all kinds, and I hope that that’s not 100% insult. …
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http://www.registan.net/index.php/2008/07/06/putting-my-money-where-my-mouth-is/Blogging can bring about some amazing opportunities. Through my involvement with Global Voices I’ve had the opportunity to meet some extraordinary people working very hard for the basic right to speak their minds—something I routinely take for granted. It is humbling. But speech isn’t everything. …
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Meet Nasim Fekrat
http://www.registan.net/index.php/2008/07/05/meet-nasim-fekrat/My involvement with Global Voices is one of those things I am deeply proud of, yet rarely write about. I met some incredible writers and free speech activists from Central Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and South America at the Budapest Summit last week. …
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about : three fugitives
http://mahata.sakura.ne.jp/wp/?p=2322not Canada’s job as part of the International Security Assistance Force to hunt down escaped prisoners. “You can ask yourself the rhetorical question, what if we find 100 fugitives in the fields?” Gen. Thompson said. “What is (Quote from : 「O, Canada」) I’m almost late on getting this up, but this week’s America’s Most Wanted is, as always, a must see. You can catch it Sat. nights at 9pm on your local Fox station- or check them out on the web. Butcher of Mamaroneck: Police in New York are
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Latest Labyrinth Review
http://oilandglory.com/2008/07/latest-labyrinth-review.htmlreviewed
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Dave Lucas
http://dave-lucas.blogspot.comBlogged Tries To Make A Human-Powered Techmeme For Everything: Blogged, the blog directory that we introduced last February, has launched a news portal that aspires to hand-pick the most interesting stories from across... Joshua Foust notes the irony of forcing the Marine Corps into doing social work in southern Afghanistan.
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Paradigm Intelligence: NEW automatedTaliban section
http://paradigmintel.blogspot.comFundamentals: Be Careful Who We Arm - Jul 3, 2008 - Joshua Foust Why Did She Bother? - Jul 3, 2008 - Joshua Foust Taliban abducts 140 soldiers (Pakistan) - Jul 3, 2008 - islamoscope Mike mullen
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A Second Hand Conjecture
http://asecondhandconjecture.comthis has resulted in a steady erosion of civil liberties, health indicators, rural development, and stalled overall GDP growth, his popularity even after relinquishing the Presidency remains as high as ever. Why is this? Anna Politkovskaya—one of the many journalists whose murder in Russia will never be solved—pondered this in her 2004 opus Putin’s Russia; four years later, Steve LeVine uses her book as a sort of jumping off point to more fully investigate the depths to which Russia has sunk.
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Afghanistan: Marine Corps Goes Social
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/07/02/afghanistan-marine-...Joshua Foust notes the irony of forcing the Marine Corps into doing social work in southern Afghanistan.
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Silence Like a Cancer Grows | The Agonist
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Khost, COIN, and America’s Forgotten War
http://themoderatevoice.com/war/afghanistan/20759/khost-coin...worth the read. He notes that despite optimistic accounts from the likes of Ann Marlowe and David Ignatius, the Department of Defense recently revealed that attacks have risen 40% in eastern Afghanistan over the last year. Even Khost province, what some have called the “crown jewel in the American counterinsurgency,” isn’t quite the peaceful Switzerland that it’s been made it out to be. As Rubin writes: My source reports 269 attacks so far this year in Khost, up 22 percent from last year
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Khost, COIN, and America's Forgotten War
http://fpwatch.blogspot.com/2008/06/outside-of-kabul.htmlworth the read. He notes that despite optimistic assessments from the likes of Ann Marlowe and David Ignatius, the Department of Defense recently revealed that attacks have risen 40% in eastern Afghanistan over the last year. Even Khost province, what some have called the "crown jewel in the American counterinsurgency," isn't quite the peaceful Switzerland that it's been made it out to be. As Rubin writes: My source reports 269 attacks so far this year in Khost, up 22 percent from last year's total of 220. So the
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Rubin: Counter-Insurgency in Afghanistan -- Not a Khost of a Chance
http://icga.blogspot.com/2008/06/rubin-counter-insurgency-in...As I have chronicled in this space, administration apologists such as Ann Marlowe and David Ignatius have been claiming Eastern Afghanistan in general and the tiny province of Khost in particular as proof of U.S. success in Afghanistan. (And Registan.net has been dogging their steps.) Marlowe, whose work has been featured in the Washington Post, National Review, Weekly Standard, and Wall Street Journal, claimed in in May that, far from being resurgent, "in the 14 provinces that make up Regional Command
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