When a luxury hotel in Kabul was attacked by the Taliban last night, one American wanted to get his house in order while the house was literally crumbling around him.
Never has “King to E4″ sounded so dramatic.
Guantanamo files revealed by Wikileaks shed light on 780 people who passed through the facility in Cuba, of which only 220 have been assessed by Americans to be dangerous international terrorists.
The secret peace talks between the Afghan government and Taliban leaders took a giant step backwards Monday. Turns out, Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, an alleged boss in the ranks of terror and the supposed key to negotiating a peaceful future, was a fake.
“Hmm. I do hope the Taliban don’t follow me on Twitter.” –New York Times columnist NICHOLAS KRISTOF via Twitter, after tweeting some less-than-complimentary things about the Islamic fundamentalists while on a visit to Afghanistan.
Sensitivity, or censorship?
U.S. Marines deployed to Afghanistan report that more children and teenagers are used by the Taliban in battle, some as young as 3 years old.
For five months, freedom never seemed fully tangible for Kosuke Tsuneoka. Leave it to social networking to break the brazen barricade of Taliban captivity.
Reports of compensation figures in wrongful death suits often shock us. After all, we like to think of our own lives as intangibly priceless, and no one wants to imagine that they are worth less than, say, a used car. But even compared to other figures, the amount the German government is providing the families [...]
