Taliban free speech
By Bill RoggioMarch 3, 2010 2:09 PM
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Were you aware that the Taliban are staunch defenders of freedom of speech and the press? Don’t believe, me just read the Taliban’s latest statement on the Afghan government’s proposed restrictions on press coverage of Taliban attacks. The statement, originally published at The Voice of Jihad, the Taliban’s website, and reprinted below, is a curious mix of concern over the erosion of civil liberties and press freedoms that could have been written by a panel of members of the American Civil Liberty Union and Reporters Without Frontiers, and the standard Taliban frothing at the mouth over “puppets” and “occupiers.”
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http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2010/03/taliban_free_speech_1.php
http://www.eurasiareview.com/2010/03/32154-al-qaedas-global-strategy-and.html
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Thanks for the ping, granny. I just got into your link (way back at post #26) to-a-link, to-another-link, etc., etc.
You know how that goes. I’ll try to catch up on more recent posts in this thread tomorrow.
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