... building, firing sporadically (Rubin). Rocket-propelled grenades thrown from the roof were aimed at the first vice president's house (CNN). Afghan security forces searched for and fended off the attackers for hours (Rubin). NATO helicopters came to the aid of the Afghan security forces killing three suicide bombers on the roof. A fourth bomber was killed in the beginning of the attack, but ... forces do not know how the attackers could have penetrated the defenses. They believe six different attackers may have killed or injured as many as ten people (Rubin). "All the Afghan forces are n...

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... 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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... sold opium and heroin to help fund the war effort. The Iranian revolution of 1979 had a profound influence on the conduct of the Afghan War and the restructuring of U.S relations with political Islam. They say Iran as an Islamist regime that was both anti-communist and passionately ... nationalist. Reagan went to Saudi Arabia in an effort to match dollar-for-dollar, the funds going into the Afghan proxy. Through Saudi Arabia Reagan received the help of Osama bin Laden, a billionaire socialite and the funds he acquired from 'hob-knobbing ... continue. The intervention cost the Sovi...

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... , this is the life they lead every day. Since September of 1994, a political group called the Taliban has been committing acts of terrorism toward Afghan women ("The Taliban Story"). Every day, women in Afghanistan are beaten and raped by Taliban officials, in addition to being denied their basic rights (" ... that "Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses" ("The Universal Declaration"). The Taliban frequently kidnaps Afghan girls from their homes and forces them to marry Talib officials (Goodwin 300). This is clearly a violation of human...

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... to the CIA intervening, the Islamic world did not have, "an armed jihad for nearly a century." The CIA changed this by creating an Afghan jihad. The CIA even made Bin Laden the leader of this jihad. In United States camps, future jihadists were taught how to deal with explosives, ... and were taught, "deadly skills." Mamdani goes on to talk about a Los Angeles Times report that shows leaders of terrorist attacks after the Afghan War were actually veterans themselves. This of course includes Bin Laden, the leader of the jihad chosen by the United States just a short time before. In ... g...

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... were aware or concerned about the unbelievable human rights violations taking place in Afghanistan. These injustices are aimed most severely at Afghan women, who, since the Taliban came to power in 1996, have lost even the most basic rights. Prior to 1996 American women had ... receive adequate health care, until now it was unimaginable that these pursuits would be forbidden based on the sex of an individual. Before 1996 most Afghan women had finished high school and many had degrees or were enrolled in colleges. When the Taliban took over they abolished all schools for women and ... T...

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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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... emerged as a powerful organization in late 1994 when it worked for Pakistan protecting Pakistan's convoys. With Pakistan providing weapons, military training and financial support, the Taliban gained control over several Afghan cities only to eventually capture Kabul.50 Pakistani support for the Taliban is based on strong religious and ethnic bonds, especially on the North West frontier of Pakistan. Unlike Boko ... act upon forcing Sharia law is evident that they have the same mindset of Wahhabis who prefer being ruled by Sharia Law. Dr.Antonio Giustozzi is a researcher and author on Af...

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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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... to Afghanistan and enter to his first part of holy war. He helped to recruit young Muslims from all over Arab world, and set up facilities to train them. The Afghan government donated land and resources, while bin Ladin brought in experts from all over the world to fight against the Soviet. Within a little over a year, it was estimated that as ... departing of Soviet troops left behind the Afghanistan with well-organized and equipped modern army from a variety of Islamic countries. Under the leadership of Osama bin Ladin, he organized those Afghan war veterans and started to build his a...

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... US has resumed humanitarian aid food shipments to Afghanistan to help the millions of starving Afghans, and also to help show that the US efforts are not directed against the Afghan people. The long anticipated military response from the United States came on October 7th. American and British forces, in a powerful display, launched cruise missiles and long-range bombers against Afghanistan ... opened the route to Uzbekistan and bolstered the morale of Anti-Taliban forces, which were in pursuit of the retreating Taliban. By the 13th, Northern Alliance forces had taken the Afghan capital ...

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... president to vow "to wage war against terrorism, not simply those who were behind the assaults on New York City and Washington."1 Since Afghanistan sanctioned al Qaeda and Afghan leaders refused to "hand over the terrorists," they became "the prime target in America's war on terrorism."2 The United States believed that by bringing to justice ... ...

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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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Following a series of political assassinations of Afghanistan's political leaders, the United States' military officers have seen dramatic improvement in securing the country. Following the assassination of Osama bin Laden, President Obama announced the hasty drawdown of the extra "surge" troops he ordered to finish off the al-Qaeda regime. However, there have been several recent acts of violence that have some officials worried. Following the assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the president's half-brother, a suicide car bomber attacked a police headquarters, killing twelve policemen and a ch...

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... right for people to have a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury. The Taliban have a normal court system that would work fairly well but there is too much corruption. Afghan judges are independent and immune from arrest by the police and the official intelligence agency of the government. By the Taliban's own admission they are subject to the supreme ruler ... ...

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... forces in Yemen, the Philippines, and Uzbekistan. Many countries that were once banned from receiving American weapons and assistance are now getting military aid like Pakistan, India, and Jordan. The Afghan conflict is costing about $1 billion a month. Out of the money that is requested by president Bush, nearly half goes to the pentagon. Another billion goes the department of defense for ... ...

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... was very little chance they would comply. He feels that if they were going to turn him over they would have done it already. Bin Laden faxed a statement to the Afghan Islamic Press that denies responsibility for the attacks made on the U.S. in which he was quoted as saying "I am residing in Afghanistan I have taken an Oath of Allegiance (to Omar ... ...

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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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... year and plotting attacks in Southeast Asia on US and allied targets. The Times quoted an unnamed Indonesian general as saying it was likely that Hambali, a veteran of the Soviet-Afghan war, had been offered refuge by an extremist group in Pakistan. He said the Indonesian investigators would work with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency in their search for the ... ...

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