BoingBoing has a link to an research study just released by the RAND corp. looking at how terrorist groups have been defeated in the past (http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/29/to-destroy-al-qaeda.html).
According to the study only 7% of terrorist group that have been defeated since 1968 were stopped through military efforts. Effective policing and politics accounted for about 40% each in [...]
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Study finds wars are only 7% effective in stopping terrorism
Posted in Middle East, politics, tagged Afghanistan, Energy Policy, Iraq, Middle East, politics, terrorism, US policy, war, War On Terror on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Taliban in drag…
Posted in Middle East, Weird, politics, tagged Afghanistan, Humor, Hypocrisy, Middle East, Taliban, War On Terror, Weird on October 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In 2002, a journalist was walking through Kandahar and came across a photos shop that was selling a collection of photos of the Taliban. The whole thing is pretty far out – 50’s era looking washed out color photos of effeminate men holding hands and showing off their guns. When not posing for glamor shots, [...]
