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Thomas Ruttig

Taliban på hemmelig fredskurs i Norge

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Dagbladet, 25 March 2015 The Norwegian daily also picks up the story of Taleban (and Kabul government) representatives taking part in a peace building course in Oslo organised by the Norwegian government – with a quote of AAN’s Kate Clark: Interessant. Hvis Taliban og afghanske myndigheter var på dette kurset, er det fascinerende, sier Kate […]

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26 personer arrestert etter at Farkhunda (27) ble slått, sparket og brent i hjel

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Aftenposten, 24 March 2015 AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted in the Norwegian daily about the lynching of an Afghan women in Kabul that sparked widespread protests: Vold, overgrep og undertrykking er en del av hverdagen til afghanske kvinner, og det vil ta lang tid før situasjonen blir bedre, mener journalist og analytiker Kate Clark. – […]

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Lynchmord in Afghanistan: “Die Polizei hat tatenlos zugesehen”

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Deutschlandradio-Kultur, 21 March 2015 Full transcript plus audio of an interview (in German) with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the killing of a young woman – who allegedly had burnt a Quran, an accusation later denied by the ministry of religious affairs – by  a lynch mob. That the police did not do its job, and […]

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The Islamic State Threat in Central Asia: Reality or Spin?

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Jamestown Terrorism Monitor, 20 March 2015 Finally, a non-alarmist analysis of the IS threat emanating from Afghanistan to Central Asia, by Ryskeldi Satke, Casey Michel and Sertac Canalp Korkmaz, which also quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig: At present, the threat from Islamist extremism in Central Asia appears significantly more modest than is painted by both regional […]

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The Islamic State Threat in Central Asia: Reality or Spin?

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Jamestown Terrorism Monitor, 20 March 2015 Finally, another non-alarmist take on the IS presence in Afghanistan and Central Asia, by Ryskeldi Satke, Casey Michel and Sertaç Canalp Korkmaz.  

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Afghan Leader Said to Be Centralizing Power as Unity Government Plan Stalls

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New York Times, 20 March 2015 The Times looks at the “tumultuous” (and not fully completed) first six months of the Ghani-Abdullah government, mainly looking at the former one, who “rather than decentralizing [his] post’s powers, as he had vowed, he has instead been quietly creating an even more dominant presidency, according to a range […]

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America’s Warlords in Afghanistan

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The American Conservative, 20 March 2015 “To fight the Taliban, the United States created a new generation of abusive strongmen that are now running rampant”, the article says and refers to the latest under-covered HRW watch report. “What has been put into this (HRW) report, everyone knew for years,” said Thomas Ruttig, a co-director of […]

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Vacuum to follow hit on Oruzgan warlord backed by Australian Diggers

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The Australian, 20 March 2015 A short quote by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the assassination of Uruzgan police chief and ‘strongman’ Matiullah in Kabul: Thomas Ruttig from the ­Afghan Analyst’s Network said his assassination reflected a possible weakening of Karzai’s once-all powerful Popalzai tribe (to which Khan belonged). (I also said, but this was not […]

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Situating the Emergence of the Islamic State of Khorasan

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CTC Sentinel, 19 March 2015 In another analysis of IS inroads in the AfPak region, Don Rassler from the Combating Terrorism Center at the US Military Academy at West Point quotes AAN’s Borhan Osman several times: As noted by researcher Borhan Osman, the challenges ISK has faced in setting up shop in Afghanistan are best reflected […]

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China, the United States, and the question of Afghanistan

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Testimony before the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, 18 March 2015 One of the most detailed looks at China’s role and interests in Afghanistan and Central Asia, byAndrew Small, Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States.    

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Afghan Militia Leaders, Empowered by U.S. to Fight Taliban, Inspire Fear in Villages

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New York Times, 17 March 2015 The pros-and-cons discussion about the so-called ‘uprising militais’ continues: A case study from Ghazni, featuring statements by local villagers like: “We are shivering with fear.” “For God’s sake, take these people away from us. We cannot stand their brutality.” “These uprisers, they are like roundworms in your stomach. They […]

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