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...Twenty boys is all we need to defend this base," he says with a glance around his embattled domain. "Plus a couple of rocket launchers and a machine gun. We can also call on fire support from tanks back at the second line." The boys come up for four or five days at a time, then rotate with a brother or cousin...
...take several hours to be admitted to the domain of Pakistan's Home Secretary for Baluchistan, the all-powerful and mercurial bureaucrat who decides which journalists are permitted to travel to the Afghan border. Along with two French photographers, I was finally allowed into his office. We weren't the only ones: aid workers, Japanese and Lebanese journalists, a senior civil servant from Islamabad, and a few tribal elders were all waiting, too. All of us were sitting in straight-backed chairs along the wall like humble supplicants in an Ottoman court, while the Home Secretary, Azmat Hanif Orakzai, fielded...
...campaign has registered 15 domain names with “porn-sounding names” and used technological tricks to place them high up on search engines, according to Sjönell, in order to trap “pussy hunters.” He says it takes several weeks for the search engines to register the sites, but by the end of this month he thinks the effects of the porn-blocking will “really start to show...
...Islam, bin Laden, like other Islamic radicals, foresees the overthrow of current regimes across the Muslim world and the establishment of one united government strictly enforcing Shari'a, or Islamic law. This vision harks back to the age of the caliphs, the successors to Muhammad who ruled Islam's domain from the 7th century to the 13th. What might a caliphate look like today? In bin Laden's view, it would look something like the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, which he has praised as "among the keenest to fulfill [Allah's] laws." Bin Laden may imagine himself...
...creating a certificate program for ethnic studies revolves around what some Faculty say is the nebulous nature of the field. Unlike other certificate programs, such as African Studies and Latin American Studies, whose courses are somewhat bounded by geography, the field of ethnic studies has a less concretely defined domain...