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...than was expected because it has alienated its Muslim supporters with its indiscriminate killing, and with its inattention to social problems such as poverty, unemployment, and education. America has a chance to defeat Al Qaeda by avoiding this mistake, by refocusing more of its efforts in the region on economic and social actions, less on air strikes...
Harvard Law School student Clara J. K. Long and her Boston-based film crew won a new international media award for their documentary series “Border Stories,” which strives to show the “human face” of the U.S.-Mexico border region. The team won the Public Prize—one of the Every Human Has Rights Media Awards—which the media development organization Internews created to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Long said that a trip to the U.S.-Mexico border and across...
...Both the U.S.’s diplomatic initiative at the UN and the EU’s military efforts will improve the security for transnational movements in the area. But that is not enough. The developed world must act to address not only the security concerns in the region, but also–and perhaps more importantly–the root of the problem: Somalia itself. The country fits squarely in the category of a failed state: It has no stable government with monopoly over the use of force, it is plagued with warlords struggling for supremacy...
...office, but not enough to put him in jail, since he enjoys - according to U.S. military sources - a close relationship with the Karzai government. Indeed, Akhundzada and Karzai's brother Ahmed Wali - who operates in Kandahar, the next province over - are considered the shadow rulers of the region (along with Mullah Omar). "You should understand," a British commander said, "the fight here isn't really about religion. It's about money...
...seeing growing numbers of European extremists turning up in the Afghan-Pakistan region again - often aided by networks created specially to help them get there," confides a French intelligence official. "This isn't a return to the pre-Sept. 11 situation, but it's certainly the closest to it we've seen since the fall of the Taliban...