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		<title>Unending Troubles in the Sahel-Sahara</title>
		<link>http://the-war-diaries.com/?p=2984</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 19:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekhenryflood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetNew York- I have an article out today on the French-led external military intervention in central and northern Mali which began in mid-January. I woke up this morning excited to have a new piece out only to see that there had been a double suicide bombing in neighboring Niger. MUJAO spokesman Abu Walid Sahraoui claims to have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kachin Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 22:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekhenryflood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Burma]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetGuest blogger: Raymond Pagnucco Follow Raymond on Twitter at @RaymondPagnucco See Raymond’s site here New York- I&#8217;ve known Ray Pagnucco for some twenty years now. Ray is constantly on the move in Asia and Africa, often interested in uncovering the world&#8217;s lesser told e stories that strike his imagination. The following guest post stems from Ray&#8217;s most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guinea to Gambia the Hard Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 18:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekhenryflood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetGuest blogger: Jason Florio Follow Jason on Twitter at @floriophotoNYC See Jason&#8217;s online portfolio here New York- I&#8217;ve known photographer Jason Florio for nearly a dozen years now. Our paths have had this dramatic before-and-after symmetry. Jason shot in northern Afghanistan just before 9/11, I just after. He shot in Baghdad just before it fell, I, again, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TWD Chechnya/North Caucasus Reading List</title>
		<link>http://the-war-diaries.com/?p=2910</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekhenryflood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Caucasus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Dirty War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Politkovskaya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chechnya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fred Cuny]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetNew York- In the two weeks since the tragic double bombing of the Boston marathon with improvised explosive devices, the media has fixated on the ethnic and religious background of the Tsarnaev brothers of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Though various mass casualty attacked have been carried out in the United States in the past year, media outlets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abou Zeid and Mokhtar Belmokhtar</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 01:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekhenryflood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetNew York- The first images have seeped out of the Franco-Chadian battles in the Adrar des Ifoghas and the Adrar Tigharghar areas of northeastern Mali&#8217;s Kidal Region today. Both Chadian state television and al-Jazeera Arabic gained (or were given) access. Contained briefly in the al-Jazeera English version of the AJA report was this fleeting image of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twenty Years of al-Salafiyya-al-Jihadiyya</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 06:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekhenryflood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[9/11]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetNew York- It&#8217;s been twenty long years since Eyad Ismail, Ramzi Yousef and co drove that Ford Econoline Ryder rental van through the Holland Tunnel from Jersey City and parked a massive urea urea nitrate bomb in the parking garage of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Today was a quiet anniversary of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond 2014: Afghanistan, Pakistan, the West and the Rest</title>
		<link>http://the-war-diaries.com/?p=2860</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekhenryflood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetNew York- On February 5th, I participated in a Huffington Post Live discussion entitled &#8220;Engaging The Taliban&#8221; (featured below) after the trilateral meeting between David Cameron, Asif Ali Zardari, and Hamid Karzai at the British Prime Minister&#8217;s country residence outside London. The topic concerned the withdrawal of NATO and ISAF troops from Afghanistan at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mali, North Korea and the Confluence of Histories</title>
		<link>http://the-war-diaries.com/?p=2840</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 01:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekhenryflood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetNew York- I had a couple of long term projects published at the end of this past week. The first was an examination of the little known history conjoining Mali in West Africa with North Korea in Northeast Asia over at Asia Times Online. I discovered this newly built part of Bamako while riding around on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TWD Mali Media Offensive</title>
		<link>http://the-war-diaries.com/?p=2809</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekhenryflood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweet New York- In the wake of the French military intervention in Mali late last week, I felt like it was time for TWD to kick into high gear. On Monday, I appeared on BBC Arabic&#8217;s News Hour programme from the beeb&#8217;s Manhattan studio (which was actually the NYC AP bureau). The show was hosted by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Syria Has Changed</title>
		<link>http://the-war-diaries.com/?p=2790</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>derekhenryflood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TweetNew York- I have an article out this week in Asia Times Online based on my very different experiences in Syria from 2002-2012. Throughout the decade after 9/11, Syria&#8211;though absolutely central to the history and culture of the Arab realm&#8211;was viewed as a quiet backwater for both the West and it jihadi opponents. Syria&#8217;s mukhabarat intelligence services [...]]]></description>
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