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...Taliban claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings that killed a Canadian and a British soldier. Last week, just the day before Karzai declared the Taliban "defeated," five members of an Afghan nonprofit group were shot dead by suspected militants. In Spin Boldak, a dusty smugglers' crossroads in southeastern Afghanistan, the Taliban have launched four major ambushes from Pakistani hideouts against Afghan government outposts over the past nine months, killing dozens. Abdul Raziq, the pro-U.S. garrison commander in Spin Boldak, says he has received intelligence from tribal allies in border towns like Chaman that the Taliban are gearing...
...measly deployment of American peacekeepers in Afghanistan means that the country is being run mostly by local warlords and drug-runners. And to top it all off, al Qaeda may no longer be the official guest of the Afghan government, but it nevertheless has a continued presence in the southeastern provinces along the border with Pakistan. Of course, it goes without saying that Osama bin Laden remains at large (ignoring the popular conspiracy theory that we’ve already captured him and Bush is waiting to reveal that in November...
Actually, she hails from just about as far south as you can go: the southeastern edge of Africa. Maria Teresa Thierstein Simoes-Ferreira grew up in the capital of Mozambique, a city now called Maputo but then known as Lourenco Marques. The daughter of a Portuguese doctor, she was part of a pampered colonial class, playing tennis on the grass lawns of private clubs and spending her days sipping tea and coffee with her friends. One of the country's best-known painters, Malangatana Valente, recalls serving "Terezinha" when he worked as a waiter in a coffee shop...
...penetrating bedrooms across America. It's restraint on bedposts, it's spanking, it's fantasy play--and it's all fairly common," says Barnaby Barratt, president-elect of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists. In his quarter-century of private practice as a therapist in southeastern Michigan, Barratt says, "hundreds, if not thousands" of married couples have told him they want to bind, paddle or play teacher/pupil with each other...
With an official U.S. delegation by Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., denied entry by Iran’s government, the Boston-based team was among a small group of Americans who traveled to the remote southeastern city to care for the victims of the earthquake, which killed approximately...