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Examples
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It was difficult to take Asanov's warning at face value, given the sense of calm on the leafy streets of Jalal-abad, which is situated in the Ferghana Valley not far from the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border.
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Just after finishing the note directly below, I received this email from reader Keivan -- one sign, at least, of people seeing through the "rioter" PR strategy: this is a video that show the aftermath of security forces breaking into a residential parking. the camera man keeps asking the women who did this, and she explains that it was the special security forces. he asks "so it wasn't the protesters?" she explains why would our kids break our cars? she says at least 3 or 4 times that it was the security force that broke in and smashed all the windows. this happened in saadat abad, which is north east of tehran, I grow up in that neighberhood!
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Just after finishing the note directly below, I received this email from reader Keivan -- one sign, at least, of people seeing through the "rioter" PR strategy: this is a video that show the aftermath of security forces breaking into a residential parking. the camera man keeps asking the women who did this, and she explains that it was the special security forces. he asks "so it wasn't the protesters?" she explains why would our kids break our cars? she says at least 3 or 4 times that it was the security force that broke in and smashed all the windows. this happened in saadat abad, which is north east of tehran, I grow up in that neighberhood!
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this happened in saadat abad, which is north east of tehran, I grow up in that neighberhood!
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this happened in saadat abad, which is north east of tehran, I grow up in that neighberhood!
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"abad" (ordinarily rendered to perish, to be destroyed) is not clear.
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I saw a girl injured by gon shot (in Amir abad St.)! and there weren't enough ambulances.
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Afghanistan has more substance than "X amount of people killed again in Blank-abad Province," and a cliched reference to Alexander the Great and the Soviet invasion.
Seema Jilani: Weaving Our Stories Into the Carpets of Afghanistan
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Afghanistan has more substance than "X amount of people killed again in Blank-abad Province," and a cliched reference to Alexander the Great and the Soviet invasion.
Seema Jilani: Weaving Our Stories Into the Carpets of Afghanistan
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Afghanistan has more substance than "X amount of people killed again in Blank-abad Province," and a cliched reference to Alexander the Great and the Soviet invasion.
Seema Jilani: Weaving Our Stories Into the Carpets of Afghanistan
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