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Archive for October, 2008

Turkish Forces Continue Siege on Northern Iraq

Turkish forces continued to pound Northern Iraq today in a grand show of force against Kurdish forces after yesterday’s scandalous revelations by the Turkish daily Taraf that the army had [...]


ALERT: Somali Kidnappers Threaten to Kill Canadian and Australian Journalists

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Amanda Lindhout While I was in Afghanistan last summer I met a young, budding photojournalist named Amanda Lindhout.  She was kidnapped this past August in Somalia along with her Australian [...]


Turkish Forces Bomb Northern Iraq

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I take back what I said in my previous post, as the Turkish army has announced it bombed 31 targets inside northern Iraq since October 4. I guess I was [...]


And Now for Something Completely Different II

On my recent trip to London, I had the great fortune of spending some time with a few admired and celebrated poets from Africa who were on tour in the [...]