…there are fears that an island there could become the “next Afghanistan.” Digger’s Realm looks at this situation — and how the government has dealt with it (negotating with local terrorists and paying ransom to non-local terrorists).
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.