Afghanistan Analysts Network – English

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NATO Counters Taliban

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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Anatomy of an Afghan war tragedy

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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ANALYSIS: Afghan police – civilians or combatants?

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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Afghanistan: UN Losing PR Battle in Kabul

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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‘Taleban surrenders’ not all they seem

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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