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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.

    EurasiaNet 2010

  • 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!

    Iran Election Live-Blogging (Tuesday June 16) The Huffington Post News Team 2009

  • 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!

    Iran Election Live-Blogging (Wednesday June 17) The Huffington Post News Team 2009

  • this happened in saadat abad, which is north east of tehran, I grow up in that neighberhood!

    Iran Election Live-Blogging (Tuesday June 16) The Huffington Post News Team 2009

  • this happened in saadat abad, which is north east of tehran, I grow up in that neighberhood!

    Iran Election Live-Blogging (Wednesday June 17) The Huffington Post News Team 2009

  • "abad" (ordinarily rendered to perish, to be destroyed) is not clear.

    A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Isaac Husik 1907

  • I saw a girl injured by gon shot (in Amir abad St.)! and there weren't enough ambulances.

    Iran Election Live-Blogging (Saturday June 20 Part II) The Huffington Post News Team 2009

  • 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 2010

  • 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 2010

  • 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 2010

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