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The Andijan massacre one year ago in Uzbekistan isn't really interpreted as such by the state media. An excerpt from the BBC story: On the first anniversary of the killings in the eastern Uzbek city of Andijan, the Uzbek broadcast media chose not to devote a great deal of airtime to the events. Uzbek TV's [...]
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The 'Ask The Pilot' columnist at Salon says yes. An excerpt: … “United 93″ succeeds where almost every other movie fails. For the record, I counted about 15 minor gaffes, ranging from poorly rendered air traffic control lingo to an errant shot of an Airbus A320 standing in as the United 757. But the reconstructions [...]
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The Toronto Star's Michelle Shephard reports from Pakistan's frontier province of North Waziristan, which some South Asian journalists call al Qaeda Central. In any event, the Taliban are powerful there — and North Waziristan isn't that far from where Canadian troops are operating in Afghanistan's Kandahar province. Some excerpts: Raising his voice to be heard [...]
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