Saturday, 2 June 2012
Sultan Al Qassemi @SultanAlQassemi
Celebratory shots outside courthouse following life sentence to Mubarak
Friday, 1 June 2012
Dronestock (2/6/12 Northcote Uniting Church Melbourne)
OK - I am outta here for a while...out'n'about w/ Spaceboy tomorrow followed by Dronestock just up the hill. Maybe I will see you there or across the road at The Wesley Anne between bands?
Managed to have a really great cold instead...*sigh*
An edit of a live recording of Seaworthy performing at the Northcote Uniting Church, Victoria, in October 2010 as posted on live music blog The Occasional Archivist
The Great Taliban Jailbreak
When the stranger unbolted the cell door and whispered for them to
hurry, Rahim assumed that somewhere in the prison a fight must have
broken out. It was the middle of the night, and normally the heavy metal
door remained locked until the morning call to prayer. For the past
five months, Rahim had shared this cell, in Kandahar's Sarposa Prison,
with five other captured insurgents, two of whom he'd fought alongside
in the fiercely contested district of Panjwai. Now, from where they lay
on old blankets and cushions on the floor, all five gazed uncertainly at
the man standing in their doorway. "We are your friends," the man said.
"There is a tunnel over here. Come quickly and get inside it."
Rahim and his cellmates stepped into the prison's dimly lit lime green corridor. At the passageway's far end, a metal gate sealed the cell-block entrance. Every ten feet or so, solid black doors led to more communal cells. Nearly 500 Taliban occupied this part of Sarposa, called the political block. Some were military commanders and shadow-government officials, others hardened foot soldiers and young recruits. Their arrests represented years of effort by coalition forces to quell a resuscitated insurgency and impose some semblance of law in one of the least stable regions in Afghanistan. Following the stranger down the long hall, Rahim noticed that most of the cells were now empty...
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Rahim and his cellmates stepped into the prison's dimly lit lime green corridor. At the passageway's far end, a metal gate sealed the cell-block entrance. Every ten feet or so, solid black doors led to more communal cells. Nearly 500 Taliban occupied this part of Sarposa, called the political block. Some were military commanders and shadow-government officials, others hardened foot soldiers and young recruits. Their arrests represented years of effort by coalition forces to quell a resuscitated insurgency and impose some semblance of law in one of the least stable regions in Afghanistan. Following the stranger down the long hall, Rahim noticed that most of the cells were now empty...
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