Saturday, September 19, 2009

Smuggling Swedes into Waziristan

Our Swedish correspondent CB alerted us to this video from Swedish television. It’s an interview with the author and journalist Ahmed Rashid about the situation in the Taliban-controlled areas of Pakistan. Interestingly enough, the same route used for smuggling drugs out of the region is used to smuggle “Swedes” in.

The interview is in English with Swedish subtitles:



Update: Many thanks to Steen for the YouTube version.

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1 comment:

Opus #6 said...

Interesting and educational.

9/19/2009 7:54 PM

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