[NYer]

T. David Curp is an assistant professor of history at Ohio University, where he teaches the contemporary history of Eastern Europe and the Balkans. He is currently finishing a book on ethnic cleansing in postwar Poland.

[Former Dodger]

Thanks for the ping NYer.

TROP: the TRUTH PING!

[takenoprisoner]

Great short order tour of Anatolia. The excerpts below demonstrates how little muslim tactics have changed since then and now: (Inserts mine)

"What made such raids all the more difficult to repel was their constant, yet ad hoc, character."
(Compare today's ad hoc homocide bomber.)

"Turkish raiding parties often operated independently." (Today's jihadist's also operate in small cliques of so called "extremists" and allegedly operate independently)

"Even treaties the Byzantines negotiated with Turkish princes or the caliph could not restrain raiders who thought of themselves as ghazis and who often had the verbal approval of their overlords to carry on their assaults."

(Compare today's peace treaties with palestinians and the "road map to peace"...where jihadists, again allegedly operatiing on the outside somehow manage to continue to kill maim and mutilate at will all the Jews they can.)

[joesnuffy]

Gee I could have sworn an expert told me today ONLY The Wahhabists are the ones we need concern ourselves with.

Hmmm... the things you learn here....

[appalachian_dweller]

BUMP for later read.

[eleni121]

Excellent editorial.

Here is another I received from AINA.

http://www.aina.org/guesteds/20051126120420.htm