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	<title>The Vigilante Journalist &#187; Afghanistan</title>
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		<title>The Face That Launched a Thousand Drones?</title>
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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 heads [...]]]></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>
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		<description><![CDATA[© Anne Holmes My work on Gino Strada&#8217;s Emergency War Victim&#8217;s hospital in Kabul was recently published in on an on-line magazine called War Shooter. You can see the spread [...]]]></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 17:44:32 +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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		<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>
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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, wherein [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Korean Hostage Crisis</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/167</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
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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 last [...]]]></description>
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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>
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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&#8217;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>
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		<description><![CDATA[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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		<title>Expulsion from Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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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 kidnapped [...]]]></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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
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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: &#8220;&#8221;When untrained people take photographs [...]]]></description>
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