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Archive: Afghanistan

A collection of 15 posts

Knowledge: Media Literacy

Missing: 50 million Indian girls (IHT)

Swami Agnivesh, Rama Mani and Angelika KÃ¶ster-Lossack International Herald Tribune FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2005 ROHTAK, India In recent years, the world has been shocked by the Taliban’s ruthless suppression of women in Afghanistan, the practice of female genital mutilation in parts of Africa and the abuse of female

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Mock tribunal to try Bush for crimes in Afghanistan

From the archive (2002): a Japanese citizens’ mock tribunal — civil society improvising accountability where formal institutions would not act.

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The Slaughterhouse of Herat

From the archive (2002): Christina Lamb at the Herat camps — what the war meant at ground level, reported by someone who went.

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Russia re-occupies Afgh - Margolis

From the archive (2002): Margolis on Russia’s quiet gains in Afghanistan — great-power analysis that asks who benefits, not who announces.

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Did the US go to war for oil? Yes and No, Eric Margolis

From the archive (2001): Eric Margolis on oil and the Afghan war — the questions independent columnists asked from the start, preserved as part of the record.

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Usama bin Laden's statement on Nov. 3, 2001

From the archive (2001): a primary-source translation published so readers could judge the words themselves — archival practice before it was standard.

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AlJazeera - US planes attack civilians and fleeing refugees

From the archive (2001): translated AlJazeera reporting on air strikes and fleeing refugees — real-time documentation from a translation series this site ran during the Afghan war.

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AlJazeera - UN confirms hospital casualties - 93 more casualties

From the archive (2001): translated AlJazeera reporting on civilian casualties in Afghanistan — part of an early translation series documenting what larger outlets did not.

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As feared, U.S. attacks on Afghanistan appear to become more aimless

From the archive (2001): a real-time assessment that the Afghan campaign was drifting — outside-the-consensus analysis written while events were still deniable.

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Taliban Leader Omar and his fight with the U.S.

From the archive (2001): a profile of Mullah Omar when coverage looked only at bin Laden — primary-source curiosity over received framing.

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Geologist asked by U.S. to guess location of bin Ladin from video

From the archive (2001): a geologist asked to place bin Laden from video terrain — open-source intelligence before the term existed, and a note on analytical capability as power.

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Spare Afghanistan from U.S. ''Nation-building''

From the archive (2001): against imposed nation-building in Afghanistan, written before the project began — institutions are grown from within, not installed.

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A vacation in Afghanistan ....!

From the archive (2001): a mock travel brochure for wartime Kabul — dark satire as the processing of the unprocessable, preserved as an artefact.

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the 9/11 Retaliation: the Corporate War:

From the archive (2001): a real-time response to the first days of the Afghanistan war and the language used to report it — an early case study in narrative power and who holds it.

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Law Professor: Say what you want, but this war is illegal

From the archive (2001): law professor Michael Mandel’s case that the Afghan war was illegal — the legality question raised precisely, from the first weeks.