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Thomas Ruttig

Afghanistan: Sicherheitslücke

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Tagesspiegel (Berlin, online), 7 January 2014 Reporting that the German ISAF forces had stopped reporting the number of insurgent attacks in northern Afghanistan, the Berlin-based daily asked AAN’s Thomas Ruttig for his assessment. Saying that the argument the Afghan forces were in the lead now and needed to take over the reporting sounded like a pretext. “ISAF […]

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Afghanistan After America: Series Introduction

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World Politics Review, 8 January 2014 WPR introduces a seven-part series “examining conditions in the last year of U.S. military operations there” (at least, under ISAF) and quotes and links to AAN’s Thomas Ruttig’s year-ender on AAN. “The Pentagon has assessed that ANSF casualties were up 62 percent in 2013 over the same period in 2012. Afghan civilian […]

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German Defense Ministry closes files on Afghan ‘security incidents’

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Deutsche Welle, 8 January 2014 Reporting that the German Bundeswehr (actually ISAF in general) does not give data about insurgent activity anymore, the website of German international radio quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig commenting: “For Thomas Ruttig, who co-directs the independent Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN), there’s also a political calculation behind the decision to no longer […]

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Auftrag und Verantwortung? Die afghanische Lektion

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HR2 (German radio), 7 January 2014 Listen to an hour-long special (in German) on Afghanistan, featuring women activists, a former Afghan Bundeswehr employee, the band Kabul Dreams and AAN’s Thomas Ruttig.

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Afghanistan vor den Präsidentschaftswahlen. Und vor islamistischer Welle?

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Das Blättchen (Berlin), 6 January 2014 The political online biweekly publishes an article (in German) by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the upcoming Afghan elections and Afghan islamists of all kinds strengthening their positions in the country.

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Some Things Got Better – How Much Got Good? A review of 12 years of international intervention in Afghanistan

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2013 marked the year in which the international community started to wrap up many of the initiatives to re-build Afghanistan – arguably the biggest international effort since the post-Word-War-II Marshal Plan. But where did this effort leave the country? For AAN’s year-end piece, co-director Thomas Ruttig has summarised what has happened, what has been achieved – […]

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V Afganistane nikde nie je úplne bezpečne

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Pravda (Slovakia), 27 December 2013 The Slovak daily newspaper prints a short interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, assessing the strength of the Taleban and the outlook for Afghanistan in 2014, after two Slovak soldiers were killed in an attack in Kabul – bringing the country’s number of casualties to 3.

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Blick auf Afghanistan 2013/2014

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Radio Eins (Germany), 27 December 2013 Listen to the audio of a year-ender interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, pointing to the meagre military and socio-economic balance of the Western intervention and looking forward to the 2014 presidential election (in German).

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“Ein Frieden mit den Taliban reicht nicht”

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Frankfurter Rundschau, 23 December 2013 On the occasion of Germany’s new defence minister’s first visit to Afghanistan, the Frankfurt-based daily interviewed AAN’s Thomas Ruttig. He started with criticising Ms van der Leyen for continuing her predecessor’s and chancellor Merkel’s approach of flying to Afghanistan without meeting President Karzai or their ministerial counterparts. He demands that […]

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The Incident at Coordinate 42S VF 8934 5219: German court rejects claim from Kunduz air strike victims

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A district court in the former West German capital Bonn has rejected a case in connection with a lethal airstrike ordered by the commander of the German PRT in Kunduz province four years ago. Families of some of the dozens of victims and a German lawyer of Afghan origin had wanted to sue the German […]

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Afghanistan wird immer gefährlicher für Hilfsorganisationen

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Deutschlandradio, 4 December 2013 The German quality radio station talks with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig after the killing og nine aid workers in Afghanistan last week and the UN spoke of growing risks and respect for humanitarian actors. Listen to the audio (in German) by going to the link and then clicking on the right headline.

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Karsai pokert hoch

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SRF4 (Swiss radio), 26 November 2013 Listen to a 5:17 min audio interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (in German) about President Karzai’s rejection to sign the US-Afghan BSA soon. “Kabul seems to believe that the US zero option is a bluff, but it might be wrong.”

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