Rolling Stone, 18 August 2014 Matthieu Aikins looking at how life has been developing for expats, and mainly journalists, in Kabul and how the are influenced by a string of killings. It has quotes from two AAN people, Kate Clark and Borhan Osman: “It’s very easy to kill foreign civilians in Kabul,” says Kate Clark, […]
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Christian Science Monitor, 14 August 2014 Article on the drawn-out Afghan elections extensively quotes from a recent AAN dispatch by Martine van Bijlert: … as with the first deal, it didn’t take long for the wheels to come off. Martine Van Biljert [sic], a long-time resident of Kabul and researcher of Afghan politics, saw it coming. She […]
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Christian Science Monitor, 14 August 2014 “But as with the first deal, it didn’t take long for the wheels to come off. Martine Van Biljert, a long-time resident of Kabul and researcher of Afghan politics, saw it coming. She wrote on August 9 that the slow recount process, deteriorating trust between the rival camps, and limited […]
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Washington Post (blog), 12 August 2014 An AAN dispatch is quoted in this article trying to answer the question in the headline: A report by the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) wrote that “timelines appear to have trumped transparency and rigor.” They conclude, “Interestingly, we have now reached the end of the first round, without a […]
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The Guardian, 12 August 2014 In this article, AAN’s Fabrizio Foschini widens the perspective of the still unresolved post-election audit stalemate: “If we can agree that delays, stalemates and obstructionism have been a recurrent theme of this electoral process, it does seem possible that this pattern extends to the political negotiations that will accompany the […]
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Stars and Stripes, 11 August 2014 AAN’s Martine van Bijlert, in this article related to the recent amnesty international report criticising western forces for not doing justice after causing civilian casualties, points out one of the key problems of the international engagement in Afghanistan: Afghans have long felt that they have no access to justice […]
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Frankfurter Rundschau, 11 August 2014 and Kölner Stadtanzeiger, 12 August 2014 In an article about the Ghani-Abdullah deal brokered by Secretary Kerry, author Willi Germund quotes from Martine van Bijlert’s AAN dispatch, her doubts that the audit can be finished as quickly as planned: “Martine van Bijlert von Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) rechnete auf der […]
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Tageszeitung (Berlin), 11 August 2014 Article by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the second Ghani-Abdullah agreement, brokered by US Secretary of State Kerry on 8 August. With details still held back, agreements about establishing new positions (quasi-prime ministerial CEO) and official leader of the opposition and government-opposition ‘parity’ in appointments, the deal looks like “haggling about […]
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Voice of America, 10 August 2014, and The Jewish Voice, 12 August 2014 In this article about the Kabul car bombing, a bridge is thrown to the issue of the ongoing post-election saga: Kabul-based Afghanistan Analysts Network, which is observing the process closely, blames the slow pace on wrangling over a small numbers of contested […]
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Reuters/ABC, Dawn and others, 9 August 2014 ANN’s Martine van Bijlert quotes commenting on the Kerry II agreement: “The audit was at a point where you could fairly easily predict that it was going to break down again,” said Martine van Bijlert, co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network in Kabul, adding that Mr Kerry appeared […]
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The Guardian, 8 August 2014 “Fabrizio Foschini, of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, said the visit by the US secretary of state was a sign of improving conditions. ‘It shows a high level of commitment from the international community,’ Foschini said. ‘It remains to be seen whether this risks becoming a pattern, however, where every time […]
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Washington Post, 7 August 2014 Article quotes AAN’s Martine van Bijlert: ““Symbolically this is very telling, but whether it is telling about the broader ability of the army and its international relations, I don’t think so,” van Bijlert said. Despite intensified screening efforts and other precautions, she pointed out, “you still can’t know the thoughts and […]
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