The Andijan massacre one year ago in Uzbekistan isn't really interpreted as such by the state media.

The 'Ask The Pilot' columnist at Salon says yes.

The Toronto Star's Michelle Shephard reports from Pakistan's frontier province of North Waziristan, which some South Asian journalists call al Qaeda Central. In any event, the Taliban are powerful there -- and North Waziristan isn't that far from where Canadian troops are operating in Afghanistan's Kandahar province.