Jim: Don't mean to flog this particular slight drift to death; but surely some comparisons could be made between Taliban & some of the Cat & Prod terrorist organisations who have played so prominent a part in the events under discussion. In particular, is not Adams' formal membership or otherwise of {P}IRA one of the significant issues being canvassed? So mention of similar movements elsewhere could perhaps have as much relevance as of comparable forms of political intransigence in other places?

~M~