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Thomas Ruttig

Afghanistan: Das Ende des künstlichen Wachstums

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Wochenzeitung (Zurich), 4 February 2015 Article by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig analysing the slow Afghan cabinet building and the socio-economic problems facing the new Afghan government. Read the article, in PDF format, here.

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The Afghanistan War Is Still Raging—but This Time It’s Being Waged by Contractors

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The Nation (weekly), 4 February 2015 This article looks at the company that recently lost two employees by a so-called green-on-blue killing in Kabul,  Praetorian Standard Inc. (PSI), of Fayetteveille, North Carolina, “overseeing maintenance work” on a fleet of Pilatus PC-12 surveillance and intelligence aircraft, “known by the US military as U-28s”  and “used extensively by US […]

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Partial Afghan cabinet starts work

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Journal of the Turkish Weekly, 3 February 2015 AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted here (via VoA news): Kate Clark of Kabul-based Afghanistan Analysts Network blames the delay on an internal power struggle among Afghanistan’s elite, who wanted either themselves or their people in the Cabinet. President Ghani had insisted the ministers were to have the […]

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“We must not turn our backs on Afghanistan”

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JK Alternative Viewpoints, 3 February 2015 Interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig by Giuliano Battiston, an English version of 16 january 2015 the one published in reset.it on  (see here).

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Partial Afghan Cabinet Starts Work

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Voice of America, 2 February 2015 An article about the cabinet formation dragging on, with a quote of AAN’s Kate Clark: Kate Clark of Kabul-based Afghanistan Analysts Network blames the delay on an internal power struggle among Afghanistan’s elite, who wanted either themselves or their people in the Cabinet. President Ghani had insisted the ministers […]

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The case for Australian troops staying on in Afghanistan

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Sydney Morning Herald, 1 February 2015 In this piece, following up on the Australian defence minister’s visit, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted (although slightly misquoted – and the request to be corrected has received no answer yet). The article says: Thomas Ruttig of the respected thinktank the Afghanistan Analysts Network, who supports a rethink of […]

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Living in a minefield: the refugee camp [in Khost] where Pakistanis are a step from death

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The Guardian, 29 January 2015 May Jeong’s reportage from the “Gulan refugee camp, home to Pakistanis fleeing North Waziristan, on the site of an Afghan battlefield.”

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Portrait Masume. Photo: Gervasio Sánchez.

Women Suffering, Women Looking for Ways Out: A photo exhibition in Barcelona

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 “A woman who wants to marry the man who raped her. . . . Brides ending up mutilated after their first sexual experience. . . . Women with university training and a career condemned to live with husbands they do not love because, if they divorce, they would lose their children.” These are captions to […]

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ISIS in Afghanistan is like the boogeyman under the bed

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The Week, 27 January 2015 The Week, the weekly to the Global Post, relaunches an article by Jean MacKenzie and Aziz Ahmad Tasal, reflecting on the reports of IS intrusions into the Af-Pak arena, quoting, among others, AAN’s Borhan Osman with a differentiated, cautioning statement. Osman, the authors write, has “debunked many of the myths that […]

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Fears of ‘Islamic State’ in Afghanistan

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Deutsche Welle, 26 January 2015 Another article about IS sightings in Afghanistan, with a brief – and cautioning quote – of AAN’s Borhan Osman: Borhan Osman, analyst at the Afghan [sic] Analysts Network is skeptical of the reports on “IS” in Afghanistan. “It is too early to judge whether ‘IS’ in Afghanistan is gaining ground.”

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Afghanistan-Mission unter falschen Vorzeichen

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Handelsblatt, 21 January 2015 Philipp Münch’s shorter German version of his January 2015 AAN discussion paper titled “Resolute Support Light” has been published as a guest article in the German economic daily.

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Afganistan. Kalifat pod Hindukuszem

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PAP/Gazeta Wyborcza, 20 January 2015 The Polish news agency, reprinted in one of the largest dailies of the country, publishes an article looking at reports of IS appearances in Afghanistan. It also quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, cautioning not take every appearing black flag automatically for that of the IS; considering that some commanders might use […]

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