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Since the start of the hostage crisis last week, when 23 Korean Christian volunteers were captured by Taliban insurgents on a road south of Kabul, the Seoul government has had to ask Korean bloggers to back off from online attacks on the hostages. Critics were particularly incensed by photos posted of some of the young women missionaries posing in front of an Afghanistan travel advisory sign at Seoul's Incheon International Airport. Family members of the missionaries - as well as members of the Sammeul Community Church south of Seoul, which sent the mission - also issued public apologies for causing...
When the deaths of al-Huraisi and al-Bulawi hit the newspapers, Saudis were shocked, yet not entirely surprised. The morality police, whom Saudis sometimes derisively refer to as the "Taliban," are notorious for committing excesses in their fervor for enforcing the Kingdom's puritanical Wahhabi brand of Islam. Typically, squads of mutaween patrol streets and shopping malls, caning shopkeepers who fail to shutter their doors at prayer time, scolding women who allow flesh to show from under their mandatory black gowns, and lecturing adolescent boys caught following or talking to girls. By the commission's reckoning, its members "correct...
When General Pervez Musharraf seized power in 1999, he promised to bring law and order to Pakistan. Yet the country has been anything but orderly of late, with controversy in its Supreme Court and a deadly raid on Islamabad's pro-Taliban Red Mosque. The White House is pressing Musharraf, a longtime ally, to take a more forceful stand against al-Qaeda strongholds. Here are the four key players...
...Daniel Markey notes in Foreign Affairs, many Pakistani officers distrust the U.S. because we cut off aid in the 1990s. Threatening to do so again would probably push Islamabad into the arms of its other big ally, China, and make it even less helpful in the struggle against the Taliban and al-Qaeda...
...Pakistan, even Turkish-style democracy is a long way off. But the U.S. needs to help it get there. If Pakistan doesn't move in Turkey's direction, it will probably move in the Taliban's. And then America's choices will be truly ugly. Musharraf may always be a dictator, but he needs to become a better one. Because if he doesn't, what follows could be a lot worse...