Nuristan

• “Lake Oswego, Ore., died Dec. 5 in Nuristan, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device.”

  KIA KIA/BNR

• “By then I knew the level of fraud and corruption in Nuristan was going to hit the roof, and it did.”

  The Huffington Post: Ann Jones: Big Men, Big Money, Big Voting Scam: The American Midterm Election -- in Afghanistan

• “[T] he troops in Nuristan have also suffered from sheer isolation and the topography of the Hindu Kush.”

  Balloon Juice » 2007 » February

• “Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Video: Danger in Nuristan « - Blogs from CNN. com”

  Video: Danger in Nuristan

• “Thus the Western African Jihads and the jihad against the “Kafirs” of “Kafiristan” in Afghanistan “The land of Unbelievers” — after their forced conversion in the late 19th century, now known as Nuristan — the land of light were perfectly permissible.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Swiss vote to ban minarets

• “NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The province is called Nuristan, which means land of enlightenment.”

  CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2009

• “The province is called Nuristan, which means land of enlightenment.”

  CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2009

• “It was called the Nuristan-Kunar corridor, and American military planners fear that al-Qaeda is trying to revive it.”

  Into the Valley of Death

• “ROBERTSON: What's happening, the U.S. military is expending its influence into Nuristan, which is a very, very mountainous area, it's the Hindu Kush Mountains, very steeply sided valleys.”

  CNN Transcript Apr 22, 2007

• “KASURI: On the other side, there is Nuristan, which is a wooded area.”

  CNN Transcript Sep 17, 2006

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