It may be a new war for America, but for the people of Central Asia it’s simply more of the same. Over the past two decades there have been wars in: Iran, Iraq. Kuwait, and From 19, November 2001 — Afghanistan. While media attention has focussed on technological gee wizardry and to a lesser extent, the geopolitical context of the region, the real story is being ignored. Thousands of Afghanis have been displaced by two decades of war. Those numbers have been dramatically increased, thanks to America’s “New War” and there are indications that even when the Taliban do fall many Afghanis have nothing to go home to.
Year: 2007
Gorilla Radio with Chris Cook – Christopher Ketcham and Jon Elmer February 26, 2007
Gorilla Radio for Monday February 26, 2007
by C. L. Cook
How, after five and a half years, is it possible that the truth behind the greatest criminal act of the young 21st Century, the 9/11 attacks, could still remain shrouded in doubt and mystery? How is it, that the greatest nation the world has ever known, with all its mighty resources at hand, has done no better at answering the myriad questions that lay still unresolved than to reiterate the original narrative of what happened on that fateful day in September: The hijackings were the work of a handful of Osama bin Laden devotees, that somehow managed to plan and pull off their scheme entirely undetected?