April 2011
44 posts
WikiLeaks comes to Turtle Bay - By Colum Lynch |... →
WikiLeaks has provided unprecedented insights into the way America conducts its diplomacy behind closed doors through its disclosure of secret and confidential U.S. diplomatic cables. But, in doing…
Failing Grades - An FP Slide Show | Foreign Policy →
The real schools of Afghanistan and Pakistan look nothing like the fantasy peddled by Greg Mortenson.
An Oscar Nominee's Book of 'Infidel' Photographs -... →
Oscar-nominated filmmaker and photographer Tim Hetherington discusses his work in Afghanistan and the making of his latest book, Infidel.
BBC News - Greg Mortenson's Three Cups of Tea... →
The best-selling book Three Cups of Tea, which follows the author Greg Mortenson’s mission to build schools across Central Asia, is filled with inaccuracies, a US documentary says. The CBS 60 Minutes…
Here's an Unlike.ly Tale: Gadhafi Does Swimming.ly... →
Where have the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the U.S. Air Force directed Twitter followers to learn more about military action in Libya? To an Internet domain controlled…
Red Cross aid hasn't reached Japan quake victims -... →
Japan’s Red Cross has collected more than $1 billion in the first three weeks after the massive earthquake and tsunami but has yet to distribute any funds directly to victims, prompting Chief Cabinet…
Inside the Massacre at Afghan Compound - WSJ.com →
Officials are painting the weekend killings at the United Nations mission in northern Afghanistan’s largest city—which sparked cascading violence across the nation—as the handiwork of a small band of…
UN envoy: UN workers killed running from bunker -... →
Fearing for their lives, the U.N. workers dashed into a dark bunker hoping to escape the mob of Afghan protesters angry over the burning of a Quran by a Florida church.Hope wasn’t enough for three of…
UN Massacre in Mazar - By Anna Badkhen | Foreign... →
The death count from the sprawling United Nations compound in Mazar-e-Sharif trickled like an arsenic IV drip. Seven U.N. workers dead — no, eight — no, twelve. Some foreigners, some Afghans, all…
Afghan Mob Kills 10 United Nations Workers -... →
Protesters angered by the burning of a Koran by a fringe American pastor in Florida mobbed offices of the United Nations in northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing ten foreign staff members and…
Lynsey Addario: 'It's What I Do' — Why She Will... →
Lynsey Addario: “I was reading the feedback to the account that Anthony, Tyler, Steve and I wrote. Some comments said: “How dare a woman go to a war zone?” and “How could The New York Times let a…
March 2011
84 posts
