I’ll happily defer to others more knowledgeable of this topic than I am (ahem, ahem, Noah) but what’s with the State Department claiming the Ferghana Valley is about to fall to Islamist terrorism? Not only is this not a particularly new story—various forms of it have been circulating for well over a decade—but Joshua Kucera noticed that the State Department was oddly silent on the same terrorist groups and human rights issues it worried about at length in 2007. What gives?
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Joshua Foust is a Fellow at the American Security Project and the author of Afghanistan Journal: Selections from Registan.net. His research focuses primarily on Central and South Asia. Joshua is a correspondent for The Atlantic and a columnist for PBS Need to Know. Joshua appears regularly on the BBC World News, Aljazeera, and international public radio. Joshua is also a regular contributor to Foreign Policy’s AfPak Channel, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Reuters, and the Christian Science Monitor.