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Afghan women protest the fundamentalist rule More than a hundred Afghan women activists of RAWA (Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan) together with some men and children demonstrated outside the U.N office in Islamabad on Tuesday to protest as they said, the rule of fundamentalists in Afghanistan....
Posted: Wed, Apr 28, 2004 4:38pm PDT
Afghan Poppy Crop Up 50 Percent This Year-USDA WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Afghan farmers are expected to harvest 50 percent more poppy plants this year, hindering the government's efforts to curb opium trade, a top U.S. Agriculture Department official said on Wednesday....
Posted: Wed, Apr 28, 2004 4:35pm PDT
Afghanistan: "First execution since fall of Taliban" Amnesty International today expressed shock at news of the first judicial execution known to have been carried out in Kabul since the fall of the Taliban. Abdullah Shah, a military commander from Paghman, was executed on approximately 19 April. Amnesty International urges President Karzai to declare a formal moratorium on executions in line with assurances given to Amnesty International in 2003....
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2004 9:20am PDT
Three killed by suspected Taliban in Afghanistan Suspected Taliban have shot dead two Afghan aid workers and one soldier and injured several others during raids in a district near the southern city of Kandahar, officials said....
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2004 9:19am PDT
Karzai 'grenade attempt foiled' as Taliban invited to join in Afghan poll Afghan police say are holding a man suspected of attempting to assassinate President Hamid Karzai on a trip to the former Taleban stronghold of Kandahar....
Posted: Sun, Apr 25, 2004 10:30am PDT
The Other War: A Look At the Role of Women in Post-9/11 Afghanistan While much of the world's attention focuses on Iraq, the people of Afghanistan, especially women, continue to suffer from President Bush's other war. The liberation of Afghan women - one of the Bush administration’s stated reasons for overthrowing the Taliban – has failed. Insecurity, sexual violence and oppression continue to dominate life for women in Afghanistan. We talk to KPFK's Sonali Kolhatkar...
Posted: Fri, Apr 23, 2004 12:58pm PDT
Afghanistan's opium poppy crop skyrockets WASHINGTON - Afghanistan's opium poppy cultivation has soared, and this year's harvest could be twice as large as last year's near-record crop unless eradication efforts are stepped-up immediately, a State Department official said Thursday....
Posted: Mon, Apr 12, 2004 10:13pm PDT
Unrest in north Afghanistan natural: United States KABUL: Violence in warlord-dominated northern Afghanistan was to be expected as the central government moved to extend its control over the region, a spokesman for the US-led military force hunting Al Qaeda in the country said Monday....
Posted: Mon, Apr 12, 2004 10:10pm PDT
The Rediff Interview/Mullah Omar Through the auspices of an influential jihadi leader, Mohammad Shehzad spoke with the Taliban supremo over the phone from Kabul. Shehzad, who had met Omar in a cave near Kandahar in October 2002, positively identified the voice....
Posted: Sun, Apr 11, 2004 10:38pm PDT
Suspected Taliban militants kidnap Afghan intelligence chief Suspected Taliban militants have kidnapped a high-ranking local government officer in south-central Afghanistan's Uruzgan province, an official said on Saturday....
Posted: Sun, Apr 11, 2004 4:22pm PDT
Rashid Dostum captures Afghan city KABUL, Afghanistan -- An Uzbek warlord's militia took over a city in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, even as newly trained Afghan National Army troops were being flown in from Kabul to quell the fighting....
Posted: Fri, Apr 9, 2004 6:07am PDT
The Other War: Pentagon's Own Report On Afghanistan Invasion Blasts U.S. War Strategy A report commissioned by the Pentagon on the invasion of Afghanistan was turned away after it concluded there was a wide gap between how the White House represented the war and what was actually taking place. We speak with the New Yorker's Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh who says, "It's a great trifecta for this administration. In three-and-a-half years of office, we have destroyed Afghanistan, destroyed Iraq and we are in the process of destroying the UN too."...
Posted: Wed, Apr 7, 2004 10:22am PDT
White House Admits Bush Lied in 2002 Over Al Qaeda Obtaining U.S. Nuke Plant Plans President Bush claimed in his 2002 State of the Union address that the U.S. discovered in Afghanistan detailed plans of U.S. nuclear plants. The Bush administration was forced to admit this week that the claim was not based on factual evidence after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said there was no evidence any such plans were found in Afghanistan....
Posted: Fri, Feb 13, 2004 5:35pm PST
Rising death toll undermines the White House’s rosy picture of Afghanistan A series of incidents in Afghanistan over the past week has highlighted the continuing resistance to the US-led occupation of the country and the mounting number of casualties. Far from being the “success story” that the Bush administration would like to claim, the country remains wracked by ongoing civil war, immense social problems and a lack of basic democratic rights....
Posted: Sun, Feb 1, 2004 3:50pm PST
Afghanistan Declared Islamic Republic 
TEHRAN, Jan. 27 (Mehr News Agency) -- On Monday the new Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan came into effect after it was signed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai....
Posted: Thu, Jan 29, 2004 8:19am PST
Afghanistan - AC130 Video Afghanistan isn't going so well ... the war there was planned before 9/11 and all kinds of munitions are being dumped on civilians .. today is no exception...
Posted: Tue, Dec 9, 2003 12:39am PST
British web-site reveals: Convoy of Death In Afghanistan, filmmaker Jamie Doran has uncovered evidence of a massacre: Taliban prisoners of war suffocated in containers, shot in the desert under the watch of American troops....
Posted: Sat, Oct 25, 2003 4:28pm PDT
BuzzFlash interview: Jamie Doran BUZZFLASH: In other words, the implication is well, because these are Taliban soldiers, there's no room or no place to put them -- no one can trust sending them somewhere else, or no other country wants them, so the last result is to kill them.
DORAN: Absolutely.
BUZZFLASH: And the Taliban fighters that were not from Afghanistan and were sold to their country's security agencies, the probability is that they were tortured for information?
DORAN: Of course -- automatically. And almost...
Posted: Wed, Oct 15, 2003 6:36am PDT
An 87 Billion Deception Dollar Message for Congress and Bush 
STOP the 9-11 Cover-Up Rally!
on the 2nd Anniversary of the U.S. air-strikes on Afghanistan...
Posted: Tue, Oct 7, 2003 8:55am PDT
ROBERT FISK: The Political Capital of 9/11 Who could ever have conceived of an American president calling the world to arms against "terrorism" in "Afghanistan, Iraq and Gaza"? Gaza? What do the miserable, crushed, cruelly imprisoned Palestinians of Gaza have to do with the international crimes against humanity...Nothing, of course. Neither does Iraq have anything to do with 11 September. Nor were there any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, any al-Qa'ida links with Iraq, any 45-minute timeline for the deployment...
Posted: Thu, Sep 11, 2003 11:02am PDT
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