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Thomas Ruttig

Life of Afghans, under fire and fury

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The Hindu, 10 September 2017 Also with a look at the US air war under Trump’s new strategy, the Indian daily quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig: However, with the increasing number of civilian casualties, the approach to the Afghan war is being reviewed with a critical eye and deep concerns. “The rules of engagement have been […]

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Trieste ricorda Vladimir Bartol, autore di ‘Alamut’: vi dice niente Assassin’s Creed?

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Diario di Trieste, 9 September 2017 AAN’s Fabrizio Foschini mentioned here, on an event in Trieste: Martedì 12 settembre, cinquantenario della scomparsa di Bartol – nato nel quartiere di San Giovanni, a Trieste, nel 1903 e morto a Lubiana, appunto, il 12 settembre del 1967 – se ne parlerà nel corso di un incontro con […]

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Den Kollaps aufhalten – Afghanistan: Die USA setzen mit dem Truppennachschub auf ein Patt gegenüber den Taliban

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Freitag, 36/2017 (8 September 2017) Op-ed by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the Trump strategy for Afghanistan and why it is so insufficient in lacking a clear policy on institution building, democratisation, rights and the country’s socio-economic problems (in German).

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Wahlkampf mit Afghanistan: Plant de Maizière neue Sammelabschiebungen?

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n-tv, 7 September 2017 Against the backdrop of new, planned German deportation flight with rejected Afghan asylum seekers, the private German TV station (on its website) refers to AAN’s Thomas Ruttig’s German blog Afghanistan Zhaghdablai with its regularly updated data on this and other Afghanistan-related issues: Der Afghanistan-Experte Thomas Ruttig hat auf seinem Blog die […]

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Taliban Carries Out ‘Revenge’ Attack on US-Afghan Airbase Over Leaflet

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Voice of America, 6 September 2017 A tweet of AAN’s Borhan Osman is quoted in this article about US military spreading an anti-Taleban leaflet in Afghanistan that is seen as offensive to Muslims in general: Borhan Osman, a researcher at the Kabul-based Afghanistan Analysts Network, noted that rage is building against the NATO-led Resolute Support, […]

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„Die Lage in Afghanistan ist zum Steinerweichen“

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Stuttgarter Zeitung, 6 September 2017 The Stuttgart-based daily’s long interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (in German) on the current situation in Afghanistan, on Trump’s Afghanistan strategy, recent reports of Kabul government-Taleban contacts and more.

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Afghan civilians count cost of renewed US air campaign

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The Guardian, 4 September 2017 The Guardian, exploring he question what impact an intensified US air campaign under Trump in Afghanistan will have on the population, among other quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig: “If civilian casualties continue rising, sooner or later at least sections of the population will not be happy about the government not being […]

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I due psicologi delle torture Cia

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Il Manifesto, 2 September 2017 The Italian left-wing daily covers Kate Clark’s report for AAN about the two CIA contractors who developed the torture programme used in Afghanistan and a court verdict now opening the chance for compensation for victims and their families (in Italian, behind pay wall).

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Femicide in Kandahar

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London Review of Books, 31 August 2017 May Jeong’s alternative look at assassinations of women in Kandahar: (…) millions (…) were spent on gender initiatives. (…) The money encouraged some women, mostly the daughters of already enlightened families, to go out into the world. A fifth of parliamentary seats were reserved for women. The police and the […]

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I Was a Mercenary. Trust Me: Erik Prince’s Plan Is Garbage.

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Politico, 31 August 2017 One from the horse’s mouth: Private warriors are just like T-shirts; they are cheaper in developing countries. Call it the globalization of private force. But do we want Filipino, Colombian and Ugandan mercenaries fighting our wars for us, their way? To them, military operations might involve massacring a village that could […]

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Taliban überschwemmen die Welt mit Heroin

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Rheinische Post (online), 29 August 2017 The German daily quotes AAN’s Jelena Bjelica in an article about Afghanistan’s drug economy (in German, behind a pay wall): Afghanistan bringt in diesem Jahr wohl die größte Opiumernte seiner Geschichte ein … sagt Jelena Bjelica vom Rechercheinstitut Afghanistan Analysts Network.

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AAN on Afghanistan podiums: Stuttgart 30/8, Berlin 4/9, 20/9

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It is general election campaign time in Germany (the new Bundestag is to be elected on 24 September) and Afghanistan’s situation is making it into the discussion again, mainly related to refugee movements and the internal security situation. Chancelor Angela Merkel has just told daily taz in an extensive interview: “We should not send the […]

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