Posted by Christopher Allbritton on April 9, 2009 at 6:13 am +0000 · 2 Comments
On Tuesday, the media arm of al Qaeda, as-Sahab Media, released an almost hour-long video featuring an interview with Mullah Nazzer Ahmad, aka Maulvi Nazir, who is the emir of South Waziristan. This is his first appearance in an as-Sahab video, according to IntelCenter, and is significant in that it ties the Pakistani Taliban leader […]
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Posted by Christopher Allbritton on March 11, 2009 at 8:26 am +0000 · 2 Comments
At the risk of making this a site about Ahmed Rashid, he spoke to the Knight fellowship today and he had more interesting things to discuss. Some was a repeat of what he mentioned to me at dinner a couple of nights back, as would be expected, but he got more deeply into the dilemma of Pakistan. The […]
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'Children of the Taliban' on Frontline Tonight
Posted by Christopher Allbritton on April 14, 2009 at 7:05 am +0000 · Leave a Comment
The Frontline report, “Children of the Taliban,” looks pretty good, and it’s anywhere near Frontline’s usual standards of excellence, it will be. From some of the promotional literature: “Have you seen the Taliban in your area?” The question is put to a 10-year-old Pakistani girl near the start of this Tuesday night’s broadcast of “Children of the […]
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