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...Australian and Dutch troops responsible for security in Uruzgan are using an "ink blot" counterinsurgency strategy, securing small areas and steadily expanding them. Outside the secure zones, they aim to disrupt the enemy with regular attacks and win people's trust with aid projects. The Taliban are reading from the same playbook, even installing governors and Sharia judges in areas they control. But while the ISAF operates under strict rules of engagement, the Taliban visit savage retribution on anyone they suspect of collaborating with the ISAF or Afghan government forces. Thousands of families face an impossible choice: cooperate with...
...Tribal elder Haji Obeidullah claims the Dutch troops should have arrived much sooner and came only when the situation turned critical. "It was only when the tribes came to [local police chief Toor Abdullah's] aid that he was saved," he says. "People are calling the Dutch cowards." It's not the first time the Dutch have heard such criticism. But it's unfounded, says Lieutenant Colonel Wilfred Rietdijk, leader of the Provincial Reconstruction Team. "For months we've been fighting every week - planned and forced," he says. "We've heard all kinds of things: other coalition troops come here...
...perfectly suited to devoting himself to "helping evicted and displaced persons." He also cheerfully declared his aim of "hyping" his way to fame so he would "never go back to selling vegetables." Traveling on a shoestring budget and relying on donations from admirers and the people to whose aid he came, Zhou preached the digital gospel, educating his pupils in the arts of establishing a blog, posting, taking digital photos and videos, using instant-messaging tools and sites like Flickr, Twitter and Skype - often working with people who had never even turned on a computer before. Isaac Mao, co-founder...
...enemy combatant and faced years of alleged abuse, including stress positions and extreme sleep deprivation, in the isolation of a Navy brig in Charleston, S.C. Eventually, a legal challenge made the government drop Padilla's enemy-combatant status, and he was permitted to face charges?conspiracy and providing aid to foreign terrorists?in federal court...
Some Palestinians craved food?goats were a hot item for purchase on the Egyptian side?and medicine because Israel had blocked all but basic "humanitarian aid" from Gaza. Businessmen and students streamed over, as did scores of brides-to-be, caught on the Egyptian side, who scurried across to be united with their future bridegrooms in Gaza. And some, like teacher Abu Bakr, stepped through a blast hole into Egypt simply "to enjoy the air of freedom...