Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington's Blog. May 9, 2008. The release of al-Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Haj last week made headlines. But few have mentioned the others prisoners freed from Guantánamo.
Andy Worthington, AlterNet. April 24, 2008. Alleged al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah has been held as a "high-value detainee" for over six years. His importance has been wildly exaggerated.
Nelofer Pazira, The Independent UK. February 15, 2008. A popular TV and radio host who survived Soviet tyranny has not been as lucky under Afghanistan's Western-backed "democracy."
Paul Staniland, MIT Center for International Studies. November 23, 2007. The conflicts on the Afghan border and within Musharraf's dictatorship could have a large rippling effect in neighboring countries and abroad.
Robert Scheer, Truthdig. November 7, 2007. So General Musharraf has turned out to be just another crummy dictator, but at least he was George Bush's dictator.
Scarecrow, AlterNet: PEEK. October 29, 2007. Scarecrow: There's a "macabre kind of calculus" about whether the "target" was "worth" the likely number of civilian deaths.
Adam Howard, AlterNet: Video. October 7, 2007. Al Qaeda is resurgent. Osama bin Laden and his number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, have not been captured. Suicide bombings have been used with increasing frequency and 750 civilians have been killed in 2007.
Bay Fang, Ms. Magazine. May 9, 2007. Throughout much of recent history, Iraq was one of the most progressive countries in the Middle East for women. Now women are under systematic attack.
