FeedBurner Blues

So, I’ve had it up to … wher­ever with feedburner.com. It con­stantly sus­pends its ser­vice and thus stops updat­ing my feed, so you, dear read­ers, have no idea there’s a new post avail­able. So I’m dump­ing them like a sack of moldy pota­toes.
How­ever, this means you’ll have to update your feeds. I’m sorry about that. But at […]

'New' Group Claims Pearl Hotel Attack

Al Jazeera has a good report on Wednesday’s attack and UPI is report­ing that a new group call­ing itself the Abdul­lah Azzam Sha­heed Brigade has claimed credit for the attack, which killed 17 peo­ple. Abdul­lah Azzam was a Pales­tin­ian mil­i­tant who men­tored Osama bin Laden before being assas­si­nated in 1989. It’s not unusual for mil­i­tant groups such as the Tehrik-i-Taliban […]

Operation Rahi-i-Rast: One Month On

Yes­ter­day marked the one-month mark for the Pak­istani military’s offen­sive against the Tal­iban in the Swat region. How are things going? Let’s assess:
This week­end saw the begin­ning of the bat­tle for Min­gora, the valley’s admin­is­tra­tive seat. The mil­i­tary is reported to be in con­trol of about half of the city, but some Tal­iban fight­ers are […]

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