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Thomas Ruttig

USA bombet Leger Uten Grenser: Brant i hjel i sykesenga

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Klassekampen, 5 October 2015 The Norwegian daily extensively quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the US dropping bombs on an NGO-run clinic: – Det er ikke overraskende at Taliban forsøker et angrep på byen, men det er overraskende at de klarer å holde deler av byen i en uke. Det viser at Taliban er bedre organisert […]

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Przełomowe zwycięstwo talibów. Wielkie kłopoty przed Afganistanem

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Wirtualna Polska‎, 5 October 2015 The Polish website, in an extensive analysis on the situation in Afghanistan after the Kunduz events, quotes AAN’s Borhan Osman (but re-locates him to Berlin): – To nie tak, że Talibowie stali się dla mieszkańców atrakcyjni, ale prorządowe milicje i lokalna policja zachowują się tak skandalicznie, że sprawiły, że struktury państwa stały […]

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Afghanistan’s Ghani Treads With Caution As Pressure Mounts Over Kunduz Hospital Bombing

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Time, 5 October 2015 AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted in the online version of the magazine, on the situation in Kunduz: “I think a lot of people expected the Taliban to claim a symbolic victory of taking Kunduz and leave. But they haven’t — they’ve dug in. Unfortunately, they’ve held out much better than what […]

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Americký útok na nemocnicu v Kundúze sa nedá ospravedlniť, tvrdí OSN

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Pravda, 5 October 2015 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted again in the leading Slovak daily, here about the circumstances of the Taleban advance on Kunduz and the MSF bombing: “Útok na nemocnicu v Kundúze však môže mať vplyv na to, ako by Afganci vnímali, keby sa medzinárodné jednotky rozhodli predĺžiť a prípadne aj posilniť svoju prítomnosť […]

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US-Luftangriff auf Krankenhaus in Kundus: Barack Obama spricht von einer “Tragödie”

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Tagesspiegel, 4 October 2015 The Berlin-based daily quotes Thomas Ruttig (and links to the AAN website) about the airstrike that destroyed an NGO-run clinic in Kunduz (in German): Thomas Ruttig vom Afghanistan Analysts Network will denn auch nicht ausschließen, dass die Klinik, die größte, und die einzig verbliebene nicht-staatliche in Kundus, ein bewusst gewähltes Ziel war. Denkbar […]

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Nichts war erfolgreich in Afghanistan!

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Welt am Sonntag, 4 October 2014 In this analysis of the Kunduz events, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted (in German) as saying that he is surprised that the Afghan security forces were surprised by the Taleban attack and that the lack of coordination between the various elements of regular forces and militias as well as […]

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Klinik in Kunduz: Afghanistan wird uns noch lange beschäftigen

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Frankfurter Rundschau, 4 October 2015 Extensive interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (in German) about the situation in Kunduz and the air strike that hit the MSF clinic, including a discussion what this means for the current refugee crisis in Europe.

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„Die Schlinge immer enger gezogen“ – Taliban sind so stark wie seit Jahren nicht

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Focus, 2 October 2015 Germany’s second largest weekly news magazine briefly quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig indirectly from an interview with Swiss daily Tagesanzeiger (see there, both in German): „Trotz Kundus sind sie sicher noch nicht auf dem Level, wie damals, als sie in Afghanistan regierten“, so die Einschätzung des Afghanistan-Expertens Thomas Ruttig, die er in […]

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“Es ist im Grunde auch eine humanitäre Katastrophe in Kundus”

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MDR, 2 October 2015 Listen to the audio of an interview by the German station with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the Taleban attack on Kunduz and why this also is a humanitarian catastrophe (in German). Click the link, then go to 2.10. and 11.36am.

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Afghanische Armee: Mannschaftsstark und kampfschwach

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Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2 October 2015 The biggest Swiss daily quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the reasons for the Taleban success in Kunduz (in German). His main point: after the first Taleban attack on Kunduz in April, this one should have been predicted – it was an Afghan (and NATO) intelligence failure: Auch der Co-Direktor des […]

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US special forces in firefight with Taliban at Kunduz

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Stars and Stripes, 2 October 2015 The US-based daily, in its report about the involvement of US Special Forces in the Kunduz fighting, quotes AAN’s Borhan Osman about the relevance of the Taleban takeover there: “However the government wants to try to spin it, the fall of a provincial capital, even if short-lived, is a […]

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Taliban Atrocities Alleged in Kunduz

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Voice of America, 2 October 2015 In a report about alleged allegations of violence against the Taleban in Kunduz, the US radio station adds – based on information collected by AAN – that there are also such accusations against pro-government militias: The independent Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) has cited its own findings that even before […]

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