VIDEO: "Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of
Death," ACFTV, February 4, 2003]
VIDEO: This is a rare and damning insight into what US forces are doing in
that other "war on terror." Away from the eyes of the media, humiliation and
brutalisation tactics similar to those of used at Abu Ghraib are practiced
here with impunity.--"Taliban
Country," 2004
Joe Stephens and David B. Ottaway, "A Rebuilding Plan Full of Cracks," Washington
Post, November 20, 2005
[The new Taliban are deploying tactics that have torn Iraq to shreds, and
Afghanistan is seeing a surge in the previously unknown practice of suicide
bombings 25 in four months. This is seen as the reintroduction of al-Qa'ida
into Afghanistan a devastating example of how over-extending the "war on
terror" into Iraq is rebounding on the West with vengeance.--Kim Sengupta,
"Remember
Afghanistan?," Independent, January 17, 2006]
[ . . . thousands of protesters rallied before his arrival, shouting "Death
to Bush"--"Bush
makes first visit to Afghanistan," Guardian, March 1, 2006]
Syed Saleem Shahzad, "Taliban's new
commander ready for a fight," Asia Times, May 20, 2006
Declan Walsh, "US
faces new challenge after riots in Kabul puncture illusion of calm,"
Guardian, May 30, 2006
M K Bhadrakumar, "The day that
changed Afghanistan," Asia Times, June 3, 2006
[Shouting "Death to America" and clutching Kalashnikovs, they brandished the
poster of an unlikely hero: Ahmed Shah Massoud, the assassinated
anti-Taliban commander who in death has been transformed into the symbol of
resistance to the US-backed government.--Antonia Francis, "Afghans
rally to the Lion to oust America," Sunday Times, June 4, 2006]
Declan Walsh, "Beaten, robbed and exiled: life on the frontline of someone else's war:
Villagers caught in crossfire between the Taliban and government forces,"
Guardian, June 20, 2006
Eric Margolis, "The
War in Afghanistan is Only Beginning," ericmargolis.com, July 4, 2006
Kate Clark, "Talking to the
Taliban," New Statesman, July 17, 2006
Sarah Chayes, "The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the
Taliban," Penguin Press HC (August 17, 2006)
[ . . . there were U.S. Special Forces that were embedded in a group, a kind
of tribal militia, which was directed to put pressure on Kandahar from the
south. President Karzai also had U.S. Special Forces with him. He was coming
down toward Kandahar from the north. The Taliban surrendered to him. They
left. Al-Qaeda left the city. The city was in the hands of President Karzai
and his chosen representative, and then these U.S. Special Forces urged this
warlord to take the city by force from President Karzai.--VIDEO Sarah Chayes
Interview: "Life in
Afghanistan After the Taliban and Why She Left NPR," democracynow.org,
October 10, 2006]