Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

Month: May 2011

Covering Obama’s Secret War

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Columbia Journalism Review, May/June 2011 Articles discusses the difficulties of reporting on the secretive drone war and the questions that often get overlooked:

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AAN In The Media – May 2011

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Afghan president seeks to limit NATO airstrikes AP, 31 May 2011 AAN’s Kate Clark – misidentified as a freelance reporter here – is quoted as saying that President Karzai was clearly ‘completely furious’ at the civilian deaths caused by a recent NATO airstrike in Helmand. ‘It’s just the latest in a series of operations where […]

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Costly Afghanistan Road Project Is Marred by Unsavory Alliances

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New York Times, 1 May 2011 The long and winding story about a road important to Afghanistan, promised to be paved by the US in 2002, still not done and bogged down in a mash of bad contracting and bad contractors.

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