This is a very interesting website:

Birobidzhan: Stalin's Forgotten Zion

Here's a good article with lots of good background on the recent attacks in Nal'chik, Russia:

Religious Extremism Finds Fertile Ground
from The Moscow Times by Simon Saradzhyan (staff writer)
October 14, 2005 (Friday)

I've been doing lots of things that deserve blog space but the act of doing them has kept me from doing so. I'll fill you in soon.

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Government Can't Explain Increase in 2002 TSA Contract: Homeland Security Office Says It Lacks Documentation on $343 Million Change
Article by Scott Higham and Robert O'Harrow, Jr.
The Washington Post Sunday October 9, 2005