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	<title>The Vigilante Journalist &#187; Afghanistan</title>
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		<title>The Face That Launched a Thousand Drones?</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/1738</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The much talked about August 9 Time magazine cover, unabashed in its aim to shore up support for the war effort in Afghanistan, has left many still shaking their ...]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Publication</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/207</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
© Anne Holmes

My work on Gino Strada's Emergency War Victim's hospital in Kabul was recently published in on an on-line magazine called War Shooter. You can see the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Protest by Fire</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/202</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[

by Anne Holmes

While I was in Afghanistan I met Hanifa, pictured above. She is nine years old. She was introduced to me by the doctor at Herat Regional Hospital ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Korean Hostages to be Freed</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/177</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks as though the Korean hostages may be freed today after a breakthrough in talks occurred yesterday between Taliban and South Korean officials. A five-point deal was struck, ...]]></description>
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		<title>Korean Hostage Crisis</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/167</link>
		<comments>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/167#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had dinner with a friend who has been covering the news here for three years. He had just come back from a story up north, and spent the ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>In Search of Bewaha</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/161</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[



By Anne Holmes

While I was waiting for my Afghan visa in Delhi, a friend of mine mentioned in passing something about a widow's village in Herat province in western ...]]></description>
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		<title>Self-immolation in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/158</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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by Anne Holmes

Amine, pictured above, is 16 years old. She was forced to marry at the age of 14 but has many problems with her husband and his family. ...]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Expulsion from Iran</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/156</link>
		<comments>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/156#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[deportees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illegal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
© Anne Holmes


I spent the day at the border with Iran near Herat in Western Afghanistan, observing the constant trickle of deportees arriving empty-handed. They were all men, mostly ...]]></description>
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		<title>South Korean Hostages</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/155</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Taliban abducted 23 South Korean aid workers, 18 of whom are women, last Thursday. The group reportedly boarded a local bus in Kandahar headed for Kabul, and were ...]]></description>
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		<title>Mine Victims</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/153</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
© Anne Holmes

I spent the last few days in hospitals around Kabul taking a visual survey of the types of war injuries the capital city treats. Many of them ...]]></description>
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		<title>Kabul</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/149</link>
		<comments>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/149#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The national Afghan football team practices at the infamous stadium where Taliban performed executions in Kabul. © Anne Holmes

I arrived in Kabul two days ago. My first impressions are ...]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Military Deletes AP Photos</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/146</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are the words of  Col. Victor Petrenko, chief of staff to the top U.S. commander in eastern Afghanistan, as quoted in Editor and Publisher:

""When untrained people take ...]]></description>
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