Posted by Becky @ 10:25 pm | 2 Comments Books: The Bookseller of Kabul
May 10, 2008 | Afghanistan, Books
I just finished reading The Bookseller of Kabul by Åsne Seierstad. Anyone else?
Clinton, Obama to discuss war on MTV tomorrow night
March 19, 2008 | 2008 campaign, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Iraq
I recently said I doubted Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., or Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., would end the war as president. Marking the fifth year of the war in Iraq, “experts” are now saying the war is probably not even at the halfway mark.
Clinton and Obama will appear on MTV on Thursday at 6 p.m. (EST) to answer questions from young war veterans.
Both spoke about the war today: Obama in North Carolina and Clinton in Washington, D.C.
Update: Hmm. Maybe not. It’s 6:10 p.m., and MTV is still playing Parental Control. I don’t see Clinton or Obama anywhere. Update: Hmm. I guess it would help if I realized that today is Wednesday.
Blackwater testifies before House committee
October 2, 2007 | Afghanistan, Death, Defense industry, Dignitary visits, Ethics, Iraq
Blackwater USA founder and owner Erik Prince testifies today before the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, starting at 10 a.m. (streaming live here).
I still want to know: Who were the U.S. diplomats being guarded by Blackwater employees on Sept. 16, 2007, and will they be required to testify before the committee?
Covering the war, part 5
July 26, 2007 | Afghanistan, Death, Ethics, Journalism, Military
A national newspaper in Norway ran this photograph of a flag-draped coffin of a Norwegian soldier who was killed in Afghanistan. (Photo credit: Torgeir Haugaard/Forsvarets Mediesenter/SCANPIX) This is how the newspaper covered it on the Norwegian pages.
This has not yet been mentioned in U.S. newspapers.
