RAWA News: Examining a microcosm can shed light on the larger reality. I have chosen to analyze a small mountain hamlet, Chagoti Ghar (Chergotah), located some forty kilometers east of Khost city in eastern Afganistan in a time frame separated by eight and a third years – November 23rd 2001 and March 24th 2010....
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Bush, Obama and the Corporate Media: Eight Years of Immaculate Deception about America’s Afghan War
Recruit Afghan women to sell war to Europeans: CIA report
AFP: A CIA expert has called for recruiting Afgan women in a public relations bid to persuade skeptical Europeans to support the NATO-led war effort, according to a document leaked Friday. “Afgan women could serve as ideal messengers in humanizing” the mission for European...
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Criminal past of man asked to run liberated Marjah
Scotland on Sunday: THE man chosen as the fresh face of good governance in an Afgan town just seized from the Taliban has a violent criminal record in Germany. Records in Germany show Zahir served part of a prison sentence for stabbing his son...
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The Bloody Hands of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
UN Dispatch: During the first half of Afganistan’s civil war in the 1990’s, Hekmatyar’s forces committed atrocities that elsewhere in the world are met with international arrest warrants and...
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The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight
Newsweek: Mohammad Moqim watches in despair as his men struggle with their AK-47 automatic rifles, doing their best to hit man-size targets 50 meters away. A few of the...
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A Guantanamo Bay in Afghanistan?
Reuters: The United States is considering a proposal to hold foreign terrorism suspects at the Bagram military base in Afganistan, the Los Angeles Times reported this week, a...
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