by lundry | Aug 8, 2012 | Islam, Media, Monitor, Politics, Strategic Comm.
By Chris Lundry Once again, the Taliban has released comically inflated casualty reports from the conflict in Afghanistan. The latest post (which I accessed through Indonesian extremist site ar Rahmah) claims that 1114 ISAF “crusaders” were killed and 584 wounded in...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 24, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — one person’s shrine is another person’s ex-shrine ] . I was struck by this sentence in a blog post on Myanmar today: As for the Muslims, they have been force-converted, their places of worship, as in the case of mosques,...
by editor | May 27, 2008 | Government, Media, Military, Politics
by Mark Woodward* On May 3, 2008 Cyclone Nargis struck the Irrawaddy delta in Southern Burma with devastating force. Nargis was a killer. The Burma government did not warn people in the region that the storm was coming or how severe it would be, though they clearly...