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martyb
on Tuesday September 01 2015, @06:12PM
from the learn-from-history-or-be-doomed-to-repeat-it dept.
from the learn-from-history-or-be-doomed-to-repeat-it dept.
For two years, academics worked to digitize and translate a collection of Taliban documents as part of the Taliban Sources Project (page currently appears to be down, but exists in Google's cache). As the project comes to a close, they've sought an institution to make the digital archive available to researchers around the world. However, the British Library, after reviewing a catalogue of titles, declined to host the documents. Their statement noted that“The Terrorism Act places specific responsibilities on anyone in the UK who might provide access to terrorist publications, and the legal advice received jointly by the British Library and other similar institutions advises against making this type of material accessible.”
[Ed. note] I've had a report that it is available on Bing's cache.
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British Library Declines to Host Taliban Documents, Citing UK Terrorism Act
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @07:50PM
> There are no mysteries left as to how this comes about.
Hhhm. Can you explain how Afghanistan went from this 50 years ago [englishrussia.com] to the hell hole it is today? I bet you can do it with a one liner too, you scholar, you!
(Score: 3, Informative) by hemocyanin on Tuesday September 01 2015, @08:13PM
Well, one factor in de-westernizing Afghanistan was that the groups the US supported during the Soviet-Afghan war were religious dickheads who opened the door to other religious dickheads.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2015, @06:44AM
Due to the conservative Christian powers that be feeling that having a similiarly fundamentalist religious regime would be the best way to handle those 'Heather' Soviets and their Atheistic ways!
People often forget than Communism was also linked with a push against religion, which was often seen as controlling the masses in the same way television and consumer media does today.
(Score: 2) by tathra on Wednesday September 02 2015, @12:52PM
USSR invaded, US engaged in a proxy war against them by arming and training the Taliban and other fundie nutjob militia groups, Taliban took over the country with said arms and training and destroyed everything modern and of value, with the goal of putting the country's technology back to the time the Qu'ran was written.