Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
By Sardar Ahmad, Agence France Presse, February 21, 2011
KABUL — A recent wave of deadly Afghan suicide attacks with mass civilian casualties shows that insurgents waging a war now in its tenth year are resorting to bombing "soft" targets, officials and experts say.
In the last three weeks more than 100 people, most of them innocent bystanders, have died in six suicide attacks.....
Also see:
Suicide attack in Afghanistan's north signals broader reach of Taliban
By Tom A. Peter, Christian Science Monitor, February 21, 2011
An Afghan Taliban suicide bomber killed at least 31 people today in Afghanistan's northern Kunduz Province. The north has long been devoid of the Taliban's influence.
And:
Midlevel Taliban Admit to a Rift With Top Leaders
By Carlotta Gall, New York Times, February 21, 2011
KANDAHAR— Recent defeats and general weariness after nine years of war are creating fissures between the Taliban’s top leadership based in Pakistan and midlevel field commanders, who have borne the brunt of the fighting and are reluctant to return to some battle zones, Taliban members said in interviews.
After suffering defeats with the influx of thousands of new American troops in the southern provinces of Kandahar and Helmand last year, many Taliban fighters retreated across the border to the safety of Pakistan. They are now coming under pressure from their leaders to return to Afghanistan to step up the fight again, a Taliban commander said. Many are hesitant to do so, at least for now.
“I have talked to some commanders, and they are reluctant to fight,” one 45-year-old commander who has been with the Taliban since its founding in 1994 said in an interview in this southern city. He spoke on condition he not be identified because he was in hiding from American and government forces....
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Jesus fucking christ. This is probably hand entered too.
by Saladin on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 3:07am
SPAM ALERT.
by artappraiser on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 5:33pm
[Sigh] I think that they're all hand-entered. I'm going to turn on the spam filter again as soon as I have a moment.
by Michael Wolraich on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 7:24pm
Personally I don't mind a small amount here and there especially on old threads. I just skip over it, sometimes it's even fun to see what the new shtick is in spam world. But I note it when I see for managers only because I know how it can grow and eat a website in short order. You don't even have to respond.
by artappraiser on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 7:36pm