Newsweek Covers

Sam Seder on Air America Radio mentioned the current issues of Newsweek today: Here are the current Newsweek covers from the International editions and the U.S. version. Notice anything different? Man, that damn liberal media hiding what’s happening in Afghanistan. Bush must be pissed to see this. Not that I have anything against Annie Leibovitz and her life in pictures. I guess Newsweek knows where the American priorites are. The story is inside the US edition and online: The Rise of Jihadistan Five years after the Afghan invasion, the Taliban are fighting back hard, carving out a sanctuary where they—and Al Qaeda's leaders—can operate freely. By Ron Moreau, Sami Yousafzai and Michael Hirsh Newsweek Oct. 2, 2006 issue - You don't have to drive very far from Kabul these days to find the Taliban. In Ghazni province's Andar district, just over a two-hour trip from the capital on the main southern highway, a thin young man, dressed in brown and wearing a white prayer cap, stands by the roadside waiting for two NEWSWEEK correspondents. It is midday on the central Afghan plains, far from the jihadist-infested mountains to the east and west. Without speaking, the sentinel guides his visitors along a sandy horse trail toward a mud-brick village within sight of the highway. As they get closer a young Taliban fighter carrying a walkie-talkie and an AK-47 rifle pops out from behind a tree. He is manning an improvised explosive device, he explains, in case Afghan or U.S. troops try to enter the village. Read at Newsweek