Voice of America, 5 June 2014 Kate Clark, a long-time observer of Afghan affairs and a senior member of the Kabul-based Afghanistan Analysts Network, is skeptical about the effectiveness of the Taliban men freed from Guantanamo. “If they were extremely important people in 2001, we do not know what they are now, what sort of men […]
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ORF FM4 (Austrian radio), 5 June 2014 English-language audio of an interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig an the significance of the Afghan prisoner swap and the Taleban video reased of it.
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Tages-Anzeiger (Switzerland), 5 June 2014 Article (in German) about the Afghan prisoner swap between the US and the Taleban, with quotes of AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, saying, among other things that fears the Taleban could learn from their success with Bergdahl that it pays to abduct US soldiers are unrealistic, that the choice of Qatar as a […]
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The National Interest, 3 June 2014 On this right-wing website, AAN gets flak (via a quote on the ThinkProgress blog) for its suggestion that all Taleban prisoners must be released with the end of the US military involvement in Afghanistan, “demonstrating willful ignorance of the law of armed conflict”: “Let’s state this as plainly as possible: […]
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Think Progress (blog), 2 June 2014 This article uses the biographies of the five exchanged Taleban prisoners compiled by AAN as a background.
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Stars and Stripes, 2 June 2014 “I think (Karzai’s government is) very upset at the way that it has happened, in that they haven’t been consulted,” said Borhan Osman, an analyst with the Afghanistan Analysts Network. … He also elaborates about past attempts of an US-Taleban prisoner swap: The U.S. had been hoping to make such […]
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Die Welt (Germany), 1 June 2014 German-language article, with the help of anonymous Afghan reporters, about the new, internet-syvvy generation of the Taleban, with quotes from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig and Borhan Osman.
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AFP/Global Post, 1 June 2014 Short bios of the five Telaban prisoners from Guantanamo, swapped for Bowe Bergdahl, based on AAN material.
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Christian Science Monitor, 1 June 2014 The Monitor picks up AAN background material from 2013, on the “scant” proof available against four of the five now released Taleban prisoners on war crimes.
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CBS, 31 May 2014 As a background to the deal that freed US soldier Bowe Bergdahl from Taleban captivity, the TV station uses AAN material on the five Taleban leaders that were meant to be swapped in 2012. The five Taleban leaders now swapped have not officially been named yet.
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SRF (Swiss radio), 30 May 2014 Summary of an interview (with complete audio file of it), commenting on Obama’s announcement on the (still imcomplete) US troop drawdown till 2016.
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Reuters, 29 May 2014 “It’s a part of Afghan politics unfortunately, the current deal-making,” said Afghanistan Analyst Network researcher, Qayoom Suroush. “You don’t need to go to every each voter to convince them vote for you – you need to go to the elders, the tribal leaders and community leaders, and convince them to convince […]
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