CNN, 5 May 2011 On the same day as the Global Post (see there under ‘recommended reading’) put some doubt on the story, CNN had a reporter ‘inside’ the escape tunnel and takes the story at face value.
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Columbia Journalism Review, May/June 2011 Articles discusses the difficulties of reporting on the secretive drone war and the questions that often get overlooked:
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New York Times, 1 May 2011 The long and winding story about a road important to Afghanistan, promised to be paved by the US in 2002, still not done and bogged down in a mash of bad contracting and bad contractors.
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The Diplomat, 20 April 2011 Even US military receive Taleban night letters. US Army Col. Johnny Isaak, commander of a military agricultural team in Logar: ‘I’ve had the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, which is the shadow government, send me letters, telling me … I didn’t have proper building permits, (so) I need to pay them […]
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Guardian, 11 April 2011 A few sentences of clarity by a journalist who once was optimistic that things in Afghanistan might change but saw that it did not happen.
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LA Times, 10 April 2011 ‘Combat by camera’ and the determination of drone pilots to see a threat where there was none. Released reports and transcripts of the 21 February 2010 US bombing of a civilian convoy in Daikondi show how “Technology can occasionally [sic] give you a false sense of security that you can […]
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IRIN, 7 April 2011 This author-less article of the UN news agency says that ‘discrepancies in the number of civilian casualties of war in Afghanistan and the varying levels of blame attributed to warring parties by the UN and human rights organizations could, in part, be due to different interpretations of the legal status of […]
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Guardian, 6 April 2011 A story about a number of night raids on former Taleban Zaeef and Arsala Rahmani’s houses in Kabul by foreign and NDS forces. It quotes another ex-Taleb and member of the HPC Mujahed as saying: ‘We get phoned up by HPC [High Peace Council] members all the time, complaining that their […]
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Eurasianet, 6 April 2011 In the light of the recent unrest in Mazar and the Afghan government’s letter to limit the Unama mandate, Aunohita Mojumdar says that the United Nations ‘is struggling to remain relevant in Afghanistan. At the heart of the UN’s challenge is a growing perception that it has lost the trust and […]
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IWPR, 4 April 2011 An interesting reality check of the reintegration programme: Sources interviewed by IWPR in northern Afghanistan say many of those coming over to the government are not insurgents at all but rather many of them originally part of the mujahedin who fought the Soviet-backed government in the 1980s, were supposed to have […]
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Financial Times, 1 April 2011 What many may thing is a joke on April fools’ day, is nothing but the truth: Momand was a cosmonaut in the Soviet space programme and boarded a Soyuz spaceship in 1988. He now lives in Germany.
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Guardian, 1 April 2011 Another piece where you would hope it is an 1 April joke: The Afghan government apparently has nothing better to do then regulating by a new law — wedding dresses, and even worse, strict gender segregation at wedding and, even worse, wants to send ‘committees’ to check whether the new law […]
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