Seth Jones thinks we need to think about al Qaeda in Iran. Virtually unnoticed, since late 2001, Iran has held some of al Qaeda’s most senior leaders. Several of these operatives, such as Yasin al-Suri, an al Qaeda facilitator, have moved recruits and money from the Middle East to central al Qaeda in Pakistan. Others, such [...]
SNB Threatens Jizzakh Youth Activists
Dmitriy Nurullayev and Aziz Yuldashev, natives of Uzbekistan residing in the United States, returned to their hometown of Jizzakh in late December 2011 to visit family. Both are officers of Awareness Projects International, a non-profit engaging in human rights education work in Uzbekistan and elsewhere. On 2 January, Nurullayev was summoned to the local police [...]
The Uzbek “Military” Waiver
This B-52 is not a part of the “military aid” the U.S. will provide Uzbekistan. The Wall Street Journal reports: The Obama administration waived a ban on military assistance to Uzbekistan in a move to bolster ties with a nation that is part of a vital supply line to Afghanistan, but was cut off from [...]
How Twitter’s New Policy Rewards Elite Activism
On Thursday, Twitter announced that it would begin to selectively block tweets on a country by country basis. The decision prompted an immediate outcry from free speech advocates as well as a more measured response from scholars of social media, several of whom praised Twitter’s relative transparency while noting that it has no choice but [...]
