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Thomas Ruttig

Afghans question prisoner releases amid violent fighting season

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Stars and Stripes, 12 September 2014 AAN’s Kate Clark is quoted here on the many ways one can be arrested – and released – as a ‘terrorist’ in Afghanistan: “There are ways to release people if you’ve got money or influence. That’s always been the case,” said Kate Clark, a researcher with the Afghanistan Analysts […]

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Afghans back U.S. pact but worry it won’t end violence

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Los Angeles Times, 7 September 2014 AAN’s Obaid Ali is quoted here on Iran’s role in Afghanistan: Obaid Ali, an analyst for the Kabul-based Afghanistan Analysts Network, said Washington hopes the long-term agreement will signal to Iran that it should not attempt to destabilize Afghanistan, its neighbor to the east. “The Saudis and Pakistanis are […]

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Nog geen nieuwe president in Afghanistan

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Radio 1 (Netherlands), 4 September 2014 Listen to an 11:50 minute audio in Dutch on the Afghan elections stalemate, featuring AAN’s Martine van Bijlert and EU chief observer Thijs Berman.

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Afghan presidential election votes audit completed

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PanArmenian, 5 September 2014 The short item about the Afghan audit indirectly quotes an AAN information that “a few hundred boxes of votes have been completely invalidated so far but many more could be partly invalidated.”

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Die Taliban sind zum großen Sturm bereit

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Tageszeitung (Berlin), 4 September 2014 Guest article (in German) by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the security situation in Kunduz province, five years after a German PRT commander ordered an airstrike against alleged Taleban who turned out to be mostly civilians, not engaged in fighting. The strategic aim behind the German airstrike and later operations – […]

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Truck bombs in Afghanistan kill 33, wound scores more

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Los Angeles Times, 4 September 2014 Covering the truck bomb attack against Ghazni province’s intelligence HQ, correspondent Ali Latifi, a former AAN colleague, quotes AAN’s Borhan Osman: “Attacks of this nature are meant to send a message to the government that the opposition can infiltrate the centers of their security apparatus,” said Borhan Osman, a […]

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Snow [Might Prove] Profitable Resource in [Khost]

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IWPR, 3 September 2014 For hundreds of years, people in Afghanistan have stockpiled winter snows in specially-dug pits so they can use it during the scorching summer months. Now, residents and officials in the mountainous southeasterb province of Khost say storing and selling snow could provide a viable alternative to the illegal logging which has […]

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Das Nato-Projekt Afghanistan ist brüchig

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Hamburger Abendblatt and Die Welt, 3 September 2014 In this article reviewing the post-election situation, AAN’s Martine van Bijlert is extensively quoted on fraud (“part of the competition … on both sides” bur proof for “industrial scale” still lacking) and on the plans for a unity government (establishment of a prime minister/CEO and leader of o […]

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Afghanistan’s NATO coalition shrinking fast

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AP, 3 September 2014 Good overview at the eve of the NATO summit in Wales (which still cannot decide about post-ISAF NATO deployments due to the ongoing lack of the BSA) about which ISAF troop contributors are still there and which are leaving. Also see NATO’s ISAF troop “placemat” here.

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Umzingelung von Kunduz: Warum die Taliban wieder so erfolgreich sind.

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Nachtwei.de, 2 September 2014 Winnie Nachtwei, former long-term Green MP in Germany and still a regular Afghanistan watcher, summarises AAN’s latest Kunduz dispatch by Lola Cecchinel on his website (in German).

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Vorwärts in die Vergangenheit: Afghanistan und die Nato

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Tagesspiegel (Berlin), 2 September 2014 This is a first: an AAN dispatch is quoted by a newspaper from another newspaper (Frankfurter Allgemeine), about the deteriorating security situation in Kunduz.

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Des trésors contre des armes/Blutige Beute

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ARTE, 2 September 2014 Extremely interesting documentary film about illicit diggings for and the international trafficking of cultural artifacts in Afghanistans, how it is smuggled abroad and also the ‘end users’, here mainly art dealers in downtown Brussels. The movie shows amazing pieces that should be in Afghan museums (52 min., available till 9 September 2014 […]

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