For many people, the recent Marathon Bombing in Boston is a story of evil terrorists from faraway places. For others, it is a story about the heroism or the failures of the FBI, Homeland Security, or even President Obama. And for others still, it's about individual self-radicalization on the Internet, two boys gone wrong.
I want to tell a different story about a region of the world that has been engulfed in trauma for the past 23 years and for two centuries before that.
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