Pakistan cracks down, at least for the press, on Taliban living in northern Pakistan. They will be sent to Afghanistan for lack of identity papers.

I think this is a direct reaction to Sec. Rice and Afghan leaders and now Indian leaders suggesting that Pakistan needs to crack down on the terrorists in their midst. But, be aware that this has similarities to Israel's call for Hamas to be ousted from Palestine and Hezbollah to be ousted from Lebanon. This continues the W Doctrine of demanding that all terror organizations be chased all the way to their roots and destroyed.

A well written article suggests that "Greater Albania" may be a new terror problem in Southeast Europe. While the Balkans have settled down recently, militant groups are bored and want to carry the flag of creating a region dominated by Albanians. Why? In a society where tribe and nationality just don't matter a lot ... why do these terror groups want so badly to remake the world into a thousand small tribal wars? Kosovoreport gives a run-down day by day of the events leading up to July 24th meeting in Vienna where the Serbs and Kosovoan authorities meet to talk about independance for Kosovo.