Eggs Laid by Tigers
Friday, May 22, 2009
Strategic importance of Swat and Chitral to global security
This article, from Asia Times, has a clear explanation why Swat and Chiral, along with other nearby
districts, pay an important role in global security. The article is a bit hard to follow because many of the names re unfamiliar t o Western eyes. Study it if you like. Even my friends the Uighurs [pronounced WEE - gur] whom I would gladly see relocated from Guantanamo to Lower Kaimuki, play a role.
Here is a map.
Here are some pictures of the various districts mentioned in the article.
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Swat:
Upper Dir:
Lower Dir [guess who the local leading Talib is]:
Buner:It was the Taliban incursion into Buner that finally lead to Islamabad's decision to move troops against them.
Uighurs:
Te Uighurs [I was originally attracted to these folks by their name, which is pronounced WEE-girs] live net door to Chitral, in a vast desert in North-West China. We are holding Uighurs at Guantanamo, though they have done us no harm, because China is demanding them, we don't want to end them to China for fear it will torture them [to the paradoxical credit of Bushco], and no other country will accept them for fear of China's wrath. I want them to come live in Lower Kaimuki, where I think they would fit right in.
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