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Embedded With the Taliban

Posted on 16/05/201120/01/2013 by markbtaylor

The significance of a glimpse of the enemy in war should not be underestimated. Nor should it be exaggerated. LoR’s Mark Taylor reviewed Norwegian journalist Pål Refsdal’s short film Taliban: Behind the Masks for DOX, the European documentary film magazine. For a hundred years, through war after war, journalism, literature and film have repeatedly reached…

Merchant of Death, Jr.

Posted on 23/01/201127/11/2012 by markbtaylor

Everyone’s favourite bad-guy, Victor Bout, went on trial in New York this week, charged with attempting to sell arms to a listed terrorist organisation, namely Colombia’s FARC. Bout has pleaded not guilty. Bout’s lawyer’s first line of defense is to challenge the court’s jurisdiction, on the grounds that his arrest in Thailand as part of…