December 04, 2004 | 21 Shawwal 1425 Hijriah
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veiled4allah
Ukraine's Muslims, the Crimean Tatars, and the forgotten crimes of Stalin
Ukraine is very much in the news lately because of its disputed election. Much of the commentary on Ukraine's ethnic divisions concentrates on the Uniate Catholic ethnic Ukrainians of the western regions and the Orthodox Christian ethnic Russians of the...
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The Clipboard
Abuse at U.S. prisons in Iraq mirrored at jails in Afghanistan
A recent classified assessment of U.S. military detention facilities in Afghanistan found that they have been plagued by many of the problems that existed at military prisons in Iraq, including weak or nonexistent guidance for interrogators, creating what the assessment...
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veiled4allah
some terrorists are more equal than others
Juan Cole reflects on a bombing in Madrid by ETA, a Basque separatist group: I was struck at how little coverage US news organizations were giving this terrorist strike. If the Bush administration were serious about fighting terrorism, surely the...