... with the Taliban. The foreign military and especially the United States itself is going ahead with these negotiations," Karzai said during a speech in Kabul. "The peace negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban movement are not yet based on a certain agenda or physical meetings, there are contacts established" (Graham-Harrison). At first, U.S. officials were hesitant to acknowledge ... Caitlin Hayden, the White House National Security Council spokeswoman would not confirm Karzai's announcement (Graham-Harrison). "I can't confirm any specific interactions, but we continue...

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... Afghanistan the way they have misinterpreted the Islam and the Shira law is wrong, they do follow the Islam but the people have let the Afghan President "Hamid Karzai" to write the country's new constitution. The Afghan law scholars see this as a balanced document that treats men and women equally; this will not help Afghanistan at all, as it follows the 1964 ... ...

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... PDPA, and the Soviets that backed the Democratic Party. The war lasted roughly ten years, killing tons of soldiers on both sides, and tons of Afghan civilians. Then on February 15, 1989 after much pressure from the U.S. and the United Nations, the Soviet Union pulled its last troops out of Afghanistan ... They did this under the impression that the PDPA would still be the government, but they would have to make it more suitable for the Afghan people.4 Soon after the Soviets left Afghanistan, the PDPA collapsed leaving a vacancy for leadership in the country causing more fighting in Afgh...

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... them, understand them and use those mistakes to create something better. This is what must be done with modern Afghanistan to create a future for the Afghan people. The world has seen the trouble that the country has been through and now it must end. But how? The United Task Force has to ... interests, the British had, in India. Russia on the other hand wanted more territory. Both found the leadership in the country easy to manipulate due to Afghan's internal problems. Afghanistan is not made up of one ethnic group, but many. These groups have had internal problems with one another and st...

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... Abdul-Aziz University, both in Jeddah." It is possible to summarize some of the explanations on the causes of the 9/11 attacks. Radicalization resulting from the Afghan Jihad is a major concern. Following the Afghan war with the Soviet Union, the radicalization of Arab militants began. This led to the founding of Al Qaeda in 1988. This aimed to establish jihad in ... to believe that their kind of jihad was meant to protect Islam. Selective reading and interpretation of the Quran coupled this. In his book, Bernard Lewis argues that after the Afghan-USSR war, problems in the Middle East w...

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... of terrorists (Shahar 1). In other words bin Laden uses his money that he inherited from his dad to train, house, and protect young Muslim radicals. He funds terrorist acts from Afghan hideouts (Hosenball 52). He is teaching them how Allah, the Muslim God, called for the total destruction of Christians and Jews and that anyone opposing the Islam religion is the ... , Jerusalem, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, etc. - for young Muslims to come and help fight for the Islam religion. Osama paid for their transportation, and set up facilities to train them. The Afghan government loved it when Osama broug...

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... the terrorist were apart of this same religion, many U. S. citizens have begun to hate the religion. Not only do the American citizens have prejudice against Muslims but also against the Afghan people. Many believe that since one person from that country and religion has committed an evil act, than that country harbors citizens that will be just like that one. In ... other words, one bad apple ruins the whole bunch. People are also scared that Muslims and Afghan people living in America will become resentful of what the U. S. is doing to their home country. Then, we would have to deal w...

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... readers why maximizing welfare, respecting freedom, and cultivating virtue will assist people. On the other hand, there are examples of justice given in "The Runway Trolley" and "Afghan Brothers" topic. In "The Runway Trolley" topic, the author argues about the right thing to do in different perspectives. What would you do if you were the ... ). I believe that is a strong statement. This statement gives strength to the whole book by mentioning that doing the right thing is not always easy, which is very true. In "Afghan Brothers", if the soldiers had not let the goatherds leave, 16 soldi...

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... bin Laden. Born July 30, 1957, as the seventeenth of 20 sons of a (now deceased) Saudi construction magnate of Yemeni origin, gained prominence during the Afghan war against the Soviet Union. In 1989, after the Afghan war ended, he returned to Saudi Arabia to work in his family's business, the Bin laden construction group, although his radical Islamic contacts caused him to ... ...

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... and will cease their support for terrorists who wish to attack the U.S., Israel, or any other free nation. Nevertheless, there is one country and there is one man whom no Afghan adventure will ever deter from terrorism. Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is the most dangerous man in the world. While distanced from Islamic extremists, he has not stopped developing biological, chemical ... never be safe and the war on terrorism can never be won. Bin Laden and the Taliban make a nice showpiece of what U.S power coupled with resolve can do. But the Afghan war will be a hollow victory if we will ...

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... source of corruption for men who they are not related to. However, they can also be the demise of a man's downfall and that is one of the reasons why an Afghan woman is not allowed to show any part of her body. Not even her eyes. They treat women poorly and think of them as weak, frail beings and therefore cannot ... ...

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... Taliban and they would be charged with murder and be held accountable through the eyes of the media. When they find the bodies, the Taliban leaders will sing to the Afghan media. The media in the U.S.A. will latch on to it and write stuff about the brutish U.S. Armed Forces. Very shortly after that, well be charged with murder (203). The SEALs ... ...

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... training foreign forces how to fight the local opposition. One recent example that we can refer to is the ongoing battle in Afghanistan where the U.S. special forces have trained the Afghan Army against Usama bin Laden and his terrorist network. The special forces have to learn to be good leaders as well as communicators in order to successfully train aggressive local ... ...

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... missiles. As a result of these attacks the United States was able to damage the Taliban military headquarters and destroy a radar installation and control tower at the airport in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar (Espo 9A). Although, many innocent people in Afghanistan were killed, the United States was kind enough to drop food packages after the attacks. The packages were yellow ... ...

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... people of Kabul have nothing to be patient about except their own poverty and hunger." His comments could not have been more accurate. The obvious reason for this discrepancy in Afghan coverage is because Al-Jazeera was the only news organization allowed in the country but would the coverage have been different if U.S. news had been allowed within Afghanistan's borders? The ... ...

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... up a new government, we will in turn gain the support and blessing of those people to have reign over this pipleine. This taken from a conspiiracy theorist website "So the Third Afghan War obviously isn't about fighting terrorism - leading cynics to conclude that it must be about (yawwwwwwn!) oil. Bush and Cheney were both former oil company execs, after all, and National ... ...

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... together they formed the Mujahadin. With the aid of US weaponry, the Mujahadin were able to overcome the Soviet Union. However once the war was over, the US simply left Afghan to fend for itself. With so much weaponry and so many people still lusting for war. Many civil wars began and until now quite a number of Muslims believe that it ... ...

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... is gone. Show respect the Islamic faith, but not the Taliban and their doctrine of hatred. Rebuild and feed the masses. Get them on our side. Aside from the initial Afghan response to our tanks rolling in, I'm afraid this plan doesn't allow for much sizzle on CNN or Fox News, so it may not be acceptable. Nevertheless, it does have an ... ...

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... . Allied forces are still in Afghanistan but in the article it talks about Bin Laden being alive and well. He seems to have evaded the bombings which lit up the Afghan sky. He still has a group of followers close to his side as well and it seems to show that George Bush junior cannot kill or capture the man supposedly responsible ... ...

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... of the pre-September 11th period. The time when Muslims were simply butchered, tortured, disgraced, massacred, mortified and God knows what else. The hatred that started at the end of Afghan-Russia war, gained momentum by the events of Gulf war, fired by the massacres of Bosnia, increased by the destruction of Chechnya, fueled by the forced mass migrations of the ... ...

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