al-Jazeera, 14 June 2014 In this article discussing Afghanistan’s post-election economic outlook, AAN’s Martine van Bijlert is quoted: “The withdrawal of the NATO forces will have an obvious impact on the Afghan economy,” according to Martine van Bijlert, co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, a Kabul-based research organisation. “What complicates the picture is that nobody really knows […]
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Stars and Stripes, 14 June 2014 Both candidates have already complained bitterly about unfair treatment and bias by the country’s main election bodies, which will decide which votes to count and which to reject.Pushing those arguments too far in the post-election period, though, could weaken the next government, said Kate Clark, analyst with the Kabul-based […]
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ORF (Austrian radio), 14 June 2014 Audio of a short interview in the context of the upcoming elections with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig (in German; you need to scroll down on the website).
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Foreign Policy Blogs, 12 June 2014 (Not to confuse with Foreign Policy magazine.) Anothe blogger picking up AAN material (and linking it) on the five Taleban swapped for Sgt Bergdahl: “According to the Afghanistan Analysts Network, some of the public assertions about them may have been exaggerated.”
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Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2014 A strait-forward statement by Borhan Osman, “an expert with the Afghanistan Analysts Network, a Kabul-based research organization, said, ‘This swap was not part of anything related to the peace process…. It was a stand-alone agreement. And as such it is of no help to future talks between the Taliban and […]
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20 Minuten, 11 June 2014 The Swiss news portal interviews AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the Pakistani Taleban’s attack on Karachi Airport and its implications in the region (in German).
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Counterpunch, 11 June 2014 The much-read website picks up Kste Clark’s information on the five released Taleban prisoners from Guantanamo in her AAN dispatch.
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Deutschlandradio Kultur, 10 June 2014 Listen to the audio file of a live interview (in German) with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the attack of Pakistani Taleban on Karachi Airport and its regional repercussions.
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Washington Post, 6 June 2014 The Post’s Fact Checker blog finds AAN’s 9 March 2012 report on the Guantanamo Five quite useful.
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Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2014 LAT’s Shashank Bengali quotes from Kate Clark’s AN dispatch: “Fazl is the only one of the five to face accusations of explicit war crimes and they are, indeed, extremely serious,” Kate Clark of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, a Kabul-based research group, wrote in a commentary published Wednesday.” Also featuring Rahimullah […]
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Himal (Kathmandu), 6 June 2014 A very clearly written piece by former the UN human rights chief in Kabul, Norah Niland, away from the overwhelming focus on the US perspective(s) elsewhere in many media, pointing out the shortcomings of the Guantanamo system, with its “common characteristic of the Bush and Obama administrations of equating suspicion of ‘terrorist’ activity […]
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De Nieuws BV (VARA Radio 1), 5 June 2014 As part of a series of interviews with Dutch people living abroad on how dangerous their country is (loosely based on the Foreign Policy magazine’s index) AAN’s Martine van Bijlert is interviewed about the situation in Afghanistan. She talks about how difficult and precarious life is for large […]
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