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	<title>The Vigilante Journalist &#187; Middle East</title>
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		<title>British Parliamentarians Speak Out Against Gaza Offensive 1</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/478</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>British Parliamentarians Speak Out Against Gaza Offensive 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Propaganda Wars and the Gaza Offensive</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:31:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Anne Holmes

Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, who is working to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Gaza said yesterday that slanted coverage of the war mocks world opinion. ...]]></description>
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		<title>NYC Pro and Anti-Israeli Rallies</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/475</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:56:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Transcript from Democracy Now's coverage of a counter-protest held the next day on the same spot by New York Jews:

On Monday, a group called Jews Against the Occupation staged ...]]></description>
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		<title>Ending the War in Gaza</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/470</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[International Crisis Group
A war neither Israel nor Hamas truly wanted turned into a war both are willing to wage. The six-month ceasefire that expired on 19 December was far ...]]></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>Not News….But Good</title>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/205</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wish to feature my friend Raul Gallego Abellan's work in the Middle East. Here is a compilation of footage from Palestine and Iraq which I think merits attention:

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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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		<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 ...]]></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'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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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>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/156</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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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>
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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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