http://towhey.com/wordpress/?p=102 an unauthorized autobiographical dissembling of ideas, opinions and blatant observations Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:25:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 http://towhey.com/wordpress/?p=102#comment-164 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:18:46 +0000 http://towhey.com/wordpress/?p=102#comment-164 [...] An author from Coffee with Mark Towhey thinks that this kind of explosions happen more often in London than in Dushanbe: “The fact is that this type of explosion is extremely unusual for Dushanbe. Frankly, it happens more often in London than here. What’s very interesting about this bomb, and the few others that have happened over the years (from what my colleagues have told me) is that, although the government is very quick to pin them on “Islamist terrorists”, no group ever claims credit. Although it would be hard for such a group to claim credit in a Tajik newspaper — they are not exactly icons to journalistic freedom — it would be dead easy to drop an email to BBC or Reuters. Share This [...] […] An author from Coffee with Mark Towhey thinks that this kind of explosions happen more often in London than in Dushanbe: “The fact is that this type of explosion is extremely unusual for Dushanbe. Frankly, it happens more often in London than here. What’s very interesting about this bomb, and the few others that have happened over the years (from what my colleagues have told me) is that, although the government is very quick to pin them on “Islamist terrorists”, no group ever claims credit. Although it would be hard for such a group to claim credit in a Tajik newspaper — they are not exactly icons to journalistic freedom — it would be dead easy to drop an email to BBC or Reuters. Share This […]

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