Waziristan Update

Pashtuns have a deep sense of honor, they have large, extended families, and if you kill one of their family members it’s worse than the Hatfields and McCoys. There’s no forgiveness, no matter the reason for the death

New Rumors of Bin Laden, or Old News?

The article appears to be a retread of a 2005 piece by Paul Williams that appeared at World Net Daily in August of 2005. Since then of course much has happened, including registration of foreigners and Afghan refugees, regulation of madrassashs and foreign students attending them, a mass migration of Afghan refugees in August last year (Expect more come Spring) and the Madrassah bombing.

Chinese Blogger Jailed Six Years

China has again silenced a blogger, this time with a six year prison term. From Shanghai Daily (courtesy PJM)
THE former editor-in-chief of a Chinese Website has been given a six-year prison term for subversion, the Ningbo Intermediate People’s Court in east China’s Zhejiang Province said.
The court ruled yesterday that Zhang Jianhong, former editor-in-chief of a Website [...]