I share the concerns and sadness of everybody else... but, having spent most of the last three days on Mudcat, I realised I had forgotten to look up my favourite international news sites. If you don't know www.thepaperboy.com , you might find it interesting, because you can get flavours of news coverage from all around the world, and I've just been reading the Afghan News Network there.

Apart from anything else, I was intrigued to discover that the leader of the Taliban has only met two non-Muslims in his entire life.

- IanB