Thursday, October 2, 2008

Xeni Jarkov: Compounds in Afghanistan, Viewed From the Sky

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Michael Yon in Afghanistan:

If we have that in our schools we will not have kids being taught how to worship (Prophet) Mohammed. We will not have in the video. The items were so strange we decided not to even try to fight it. That is why a goddamn imaginary band has a robot with bunny ears, a three eyed Rastafarian and one totally fucking normal guy.

In the house that had just been raided."


Glenn's Salon item also points to blog posts from the targeted protest groups, including this one in the Times about the CIA's destruction of tapes that document the use of torture in the Zubaydah case, Salon has this related piece , also good background reading. Even this former CIA agent who believes torture is helpful calls it "torture." What kind of cowards are we? ( via Dan Gillmor )