Remembering 1960s Afghanistan, the photographs of Bill Podlich

Patrick Traylor The Denver Post 1/28/2013

In 1967, Dr. William Podlich took a two-year leave of absence from teaching at Arizona State University and began a stint with UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) to teach in the Higher Teachers College in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he served as the “Expert on Principles of […]

‘Can someone remind me just why we have spent the last 11 years over there sacrificing our own people?…’

…asked commenter #14 July 8, 2012 at 10:49 am “Ripped”

Taliban Executes Accused Adulteress in Front of Cheering Crowd in Afghanistan (Video)

Jim Hoft GatewayPundit 7/8/2012

Onlookers cheered as the Taliban tortured and executed a woman for adultry [sic] in the village of Qimchok in Shinwari district, about an hour’s drive from Kabul.

Reuters reported, […]

Insult to WWII heroes: Graves of British troops smashed and desecrated by Libyan Islamists in protest over U.S. soldiers’ Koran burning

The Daily Mail [UK] 25th February 2012

A furious mob has desecrated dozens of Commonwealth War Graves in a Libyan cemetery amid continuing fury in the Middle East over the burning of the Koran by U.S. soldiers.

Headstones commemorating British and Allied servicemen, killed during World War II campaigns in the Western Desert, lay smashed […]

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