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	Encyclopedia: 2001 U.S. Attack on Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The casualties were Afghans employed as security guards by the Afghan Technical Consultancy, the U.N. demining agency (Afghanistan is the most heavily mined country on the planet).
		At least one Afghan returned fire, some escaped, one was taken prisoner and the rest were killed, including commanders Abdul Qadoos and Sana Gul, killed by grenade.
		April 9, 2003 - Eleven Afghans were killed and one wounded when a stray U.S. laser-guided bomb hit a house on the outskirts of Shkin in Paktika province.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/2001-U.S.-Attack-on-Afghanistan (6774 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		Afghan media in general have been less enthusiastic about the aims and prospects of the new front.
		The independent Kabul daily "Cheragh" on 3 April commented that some believe that the JTM is "manufactured by the [Afghan] government and foreign elements" to have a symbolic opposition and also to "paralyze" the political parties represented in the front.
		AIP confirmed that Garanay was wounded in an attack and taken to the U.S. airfield in Kandahar for medical treatment.
	www.rferl.org /reports/afghan-report/2005/04/12-110405.asp (3948 words)

	CPJ Briefings: Press Freedom Reports
		A Peshawar-based Afghan woman journalist was reportedly jailed when she visited Afghanistan earlier this year, and two Pakistani reporters were detained on espionage charges after visiting opposition-held territories in northern Afghanistan.
		Recently, Afghan journalists held a conference in Peshawar to discuss ways to promote independent media in Afghanistan, including a national daily newspaper to be distributed inside the country.
		Afghan journalists often cite the case to underline the dangers they face.
	www.cpj.org /Briefings/1999/Taliban/Taliban15dec99.html (810 words)

	13 killed in Afghanistan -DAWN - Top Stories; 03 June, 2004
		A spokesman for the Afghan defence ministry said eight Taliban militiamen and two soldiers were killed in the two-hour gunfight in the Shajoi district.
		Earlier, Afghan Islamic Press had quoted an Afghan military commander as saying that at least three soldiers were killed and three injured in the clash.
		In a separate attack, three Afghan soldiers of a joint US-Afghan special unit were killed by an unidentified gunman late Tuesday in Latack village outside the eastern Afghan city of Khost, Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported on Wednesday.
	www.dawn.com /2004/06/03/top12.htm (215 words)

	AOP: Yesterday's Afghan News
		Under Afghan electoral law, one third of the Meshrano Jirga was to be chosen by Karzai, one third by provincial councils and one third by district councils.
		The singers are backed by traditional Afghan instruments such as the "rubab," a guitar-like instrument with eight strings that has a thick, round body like a butternut squash.
		Although Mirweis and his brother are wealthy by Afghan standards, the family house remains simple and typical of this poor country.
	www.aopnews.com /yest.html (3894 words)

	Print Message (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Afghan Islamic Press (AIP), based in Pakistan, said one man died and several people were wounded when a U.S. jet bombed a village near Jalalabad, close to the Pakistani border.
		Earlier the AIP said U.S. planes pounded the house of Maulvi Noor Mohammad in Perakheil village, 35 miles west of Jalalabad, after an overnight siege of the village by local Afghan authorities.
		According to AIP, Mohammad was in charge of the Dara-e-Noor district in the eastern Nangarhar province under Taliban rule, but later switched allegiance to the Afghan government which replaced the ousted Islamic militia.
	www.suite101.com /print_message.cfm/investing/68672/668790 (432 words)

	Civilian Victims of United States' Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan
		Yet another, wails about too much press coverage of civilian casualties by a media unable to understand that some civilian casualties must occur but that "what IS newsworthy is that so many bombs hit their targets".
		A 39 year old, Afghan refugee in a Quetta hospital, Rukia, who lost her family of five children on December 3rd when a U.S bomb was dropped upon her neighborhood in Kandahar, tells a typical story.
		Afghan civilians in proximity to alleged military installations will die, and must die, as 'collateral damage' of U.S air attacks aiming to destroy these installations in order to make future military operations in the sky or on the ground less likely to result in U.S military casualties.
	www.cursor.org /stories/civilian_deaths.htm (12427 words)

	News Headings
		Supporters of Commander Ahmad Shah Masood took hundreds of Taliban prisoners in capturing the capital city of Takhar province, which was lost to the Islamic militia in August, the private agency quoted Opposition sources saying.
		Afghan analysts described the developments as a great setback to the Taliban.
		Meanwhile, a high-level Taliban delegation headed by Islamic militia’s chief spokesman Wakil Ahma arrived here yesterday for talks with United Nations special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, an AFP report quoting the Afghan Islamic Press said.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1998/98oct18/head2.htm (309 words)

	Afghan Warlord Warns US of Many 'bin Laden's' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In a statement released to the Afghan Islamic Press, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said the war in Iraq triggered widespread Islamic hatred toward Americans that will be hard to wipe out.
		The Afghan rebel leader also said the U.S. victory in Iraq was the start of its attempts to control the entire Middle East.
		The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press said his five-page statement in Pashtu was sent from an unknown location.
	www.classbrain.com /artfree/publish/printer_153.shtml (314 words)

	AV Press: Taliban reject 'second chance' offer
		A military base in the northeastern part of Kandahar, the southern city where the Taliban have their headquarters, was also targeted in nighttime raids, the private Afghan Islamic Press reported in Islamabad, Pakistan.
		The Afghan Islamic Press reported Saturday that U.S. warplanes attacked Taliban positions at Pul-e-Khomri, in northern Baghlan province, which has changed hands several times.
		A radical Islamic leader, Abdullah Shah Mazar, was detained Saturday by authorities in the port city of Karachi, which has been hit by anti-U.S., pro-Taliban riots in recent days, and hundreds of his followers staged a sit-down strike in protest.
	www.avpress.com /n/sp/attack/sty215.hts (1048 words)

	Explosion reported at Taliban military base in Kabul, witnesses report casualties [Free Republic]
		But Afghan Islamic Press sources said three Taleban men were injured in the incident.
		The agency described the Darulaman district as a beautiful part of the city which was ruined during the infighting between ousted president Borhanoddin Rabbani and the leader of the Islamic party, Gulboddin Hekmatyar, but the district was now sparsely populated.
		They said the blast occurred at an arsenal in a camp believed to be used by Chechen and Pakistani Islamic militants at the Taj Beg Palace on the city's southern outskirts.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b4c8334534e.htm (747 words)

	[ www.azadiradio.org ]
		Under the previous Afghan banking system, Da Afghanistan Bank was part of the Finance Ministry and all commercial banks were state-run.
		Construction of the TAP pipeline project, which is to transit natural gas from Turkmenistan via Afghanistan to Pakistan and beyond, is expected to begin in the first quarter of 2004.
		New Delhi's participation in the project as a purchaser of gas is crucial to TAP's economic feasibility, as Pakistan alone is not a large enough market for Turkmen natural gas and Afghanistan is not a significant consumer of natural gas (see "RFE/RL Afghanistan Report," 27 February 2003 and "RFE/RL Newsline," 19 and 28 May 2003).
	www.azadiradio.org /en/dailyreport/2003/09/17.ASP (457 words)

	AV Press: Afghan leader: Omar will be tracked down
		The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press reported Sunday that U.S. forces and their Afghan allies, backed by airstrikes, were carrying out operations in the Spinghar mountain range of eastern Afghanistan near Jalalabad, where al-Qaida holdouts were suspected to be hiding.
		Visiting an orphanage in the Afghan capital of Kabul, Prime Minister Hamid Karzai told The Associated Press that Omar, America's most wanted man after Osama bin Laden, will be taken into custody when found.
		Zaeef probably was the best-known face of the Taliban, giving daily news conferences at his embassy in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, during the height of the U.S.-led bombing campaign in October and November to topple the extremist Islamic regime.
	www.avpress.com /n/sp/attack/sty520.hts (619 words)

	GN Online: Afghan Taliban spurn Islamic scholars on statues
		Afghanistan's Taliban rulers yesterday rejected the arguments of leading Islamic scholars and protests from around the world and said they were obliterating the last traces of the country's ancient Buddhist statues.
		The Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) quoted a Taliban spokesman, Mullah Abdul Hayee Mutmaen, as saying in Kandahar that the Afghan ulema, or scholars, had rejected the call by the OIC's Islamic scholars to halt the campaign to destroy all the country's statues on the grounds they are un-Islamic.
		Hundreds of thousands of Afghans have been uprooted by war in the past year and hundreds have died of cold and malnutrition this winter.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=11823 (801 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| International \| The Afghan killing fields (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Undaunted by the presence of investigative reporters and Afghan eyewitnesses to the carnage, the Pentagon went all the way in its efforts to win the propaganda war.
		Asserting that the hospital was at a "considerable distance" from where the bomb landed, the bomb blast was "unlikely to have caused civilian deaths," said the Pentagon.
		Nevertheless, the Afghan Islamic Press, the Pakistan News Service, the Frontier Post, The Guardian, the Times of India, AFP and the UN all reported that an F-18 jet had dropped a 1,000 lb cluster bomb on the 200-bed military hospital and a neighbouring mosque, missing the military barrack by 500-1,000 metres.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2002/570/in4.htm (1455 words)

	FOREIGN AID WORKERS MAY STILL FACE EXECUTIONS
		It was unclear whether the conflicting statements were meant as psychological pressure on the foreigners' 16 Afghan colleagues to renounce their fate in Christ.
		The Taliban Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has reportedly said that any Afghan convicted of converting to Christianity would be spared the death penalty only "if they repented," within three days after the verdict.
		The United States is pressing the Taliban for diplomatic access to the trial, Voice of America radio said.
	www.assistnews.net /strategic/s0109015.htm (576 words)

	thebackpacker.com - trail talk - only in afghanistan - chapter 1
		ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - U.S. warplanes on Friday bombed a convoy of Afghan tribal elders on their way Kabul to attend the inauguration of the interim government, killing about 65 people, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) said.
		Fourteen vehicles in the convoy were completely destroyed by the bombing near Sato Kandau, near the provincial capital, Gardez, AIP said quoting a member of the provincial shura, or council, Sayed Yaqeen.
		Afghan officials say the fighters have used the porous border with Pakistan to enter the country, and have called on the Pakistani government to do more to stop them.
	www.thebackpacker.com /trailtalk/thread/11765,-1.php (1320 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
		The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press quoted Taliban spokesman Abdul Hai Mutamaen, saying that over three hours of talks between the sides had not resolved the key issue of turning over the multi-millionaire Islamic militant accused of involvement in the September 11 terror attacks on the USA.
		Pakistan is one of only three countries to recognise the Taliban government and was a key backer of the purist Islamic movement as it swept to power in the mid-1990s, taking most of the country and ending two decades of civil war.
		The decision to appeal for help from the OIC was taken at a special meeting of the Supreme Council of the Taliban convened in Kandahar late on Saturday with the reclusive Omar in the chair.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20010918/main1.htm (975 words)

	Afghan Islamic Press -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Afghan Islamic Press -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		During the existence of the (A fundamentalist Islamic militia; in 1995 the Taliban militia took over Afghanistan and in 1996 took Kabul and set up an Islamic government) Taleban it was often used by members to release statements.
		The agency was often used as a source during the 2001 (Click link for more info and facts about U.S. invasion of Afghanistan) U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/af/afghan_islamic_press.htm (74 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Front \| Back again
		In Islamabad, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) news agency reported that the predominantly foreign fighters loyal to Al-Qa'eda leader Osama Bin Laden -- believed to number around 1,000 -- insisted on being handed over to the United Nations, in the presence of diplomats from their respective countries.
		It was still not clear whether Bin Laden was in the Tora Bora region, although US officials told Agence France Presse (AFP) on Tuesday that there were "indications" he was "in the area" when a 7.5-ton (15,000- pound) Daisy Cutter bomb was dropped over entrances to the cave complex over the weekend.
		A defence ministry spokesman said that the dominant Northern Alliance favours an international force of 1,000 soldiers in Kabul to guard the premises of the new interim government, which is expected to take over on 22 December.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2001/564/fr2.htm (319 words)

	Afghan Islamic Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Afghan militants to decide fate of UN hostages; US upbeat on release
		AFP - Mon Nov 15th 2004 at 5:20 am ET The head of the group that kidnapped the UN workers on October 28 said in an interview that Kabul would be responsible for anything that happened to the three after a new deadline for late Monday, the
		quoted Khaled as saying that a delegation of Afghan and UN officials was on its way to Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan for the meeting.
	afghan-islamic-press.political-news.org (1621 words)

	[ Afghan Elections 2004-2005 ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Media in neighboring Pakistan and Iran have focused this week on developments ahead of Afghanistan's parliamentary elections -- particularly in the context of the recent visit of Indian Prime Minister Manhoman Singh to Afghanistan and its impact on the Central and South Asia region.
		An ethnic Tajik and former mujahedin, Qanuni emerged as a major political force with his second-place finish in the presidential vote.
		His Islamic Unity Party of the People of Afghanistan is a member of Qanuni-led coalition and, as such, is expected to help form a powerful bloc in the National Assembly.
	www.azadiradio.org /en/specials/elections (301 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		ISLAMABAD, Tuesday (AFP) An Afghan security guard was injured when two rockets hit a United Nations office in eastern Afghanistan early Tuesday, an Afghan news agency said.
		The rockets hit the office of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in the eastern district of Jalalabad city, the Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press said.
		Ten rockets were fired at two US bases in the city of Khost on Sunday night, the Afghan Islamic Press reported earlier.
	www.dailynews.lk /2002/09/18/wor01.html (151 words)

	Pravda.RU US Troops Lifted To Kandahar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) agency headquartered in Pakistan reported that the USA had started lifting military hardware troops from its base in the province of Hilmend, 65 km away from Kandahar.
		Taliban leader Mullah Omar and his well-armed bodyguards are still hiding near Kandahar, the Northern Alliance's spokesman at the Afghan Embassy in Dushanbe Shamsulkhak Orienfar told a RIA Novosti correspondent on Monday.
		Hamid Karzai, the head of the Afghan provisional government, stated on Friday that Taliban troops had started leaving the cities of Kandahar and Spinbaldak, which is located 7 km away from the Pakistani border.
	english.pravda.ru /war/2001/12/10/23310.html (1721 words)

	Afghan Taleban threatens jihad against Uzbekistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This word has been in frequent use in the Western press over the past several years, explained directly or subtlety, to mean holy war.
		It does not have a counterpart in Islamic glossary, and Jihad is certainly not its translation.
		In its primary sense it is an inner thing, within self, to rid it from debased actions or inclinations, and exercise constancy and perseverance in achieving a higher moral standard.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/531045/posts (2004 words)

	Print Message (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Afghan province of Paktika, on Dec. 27 when U.S. planes attacked a
		interim government, confirmed the death to The Associated Press.
		Islamic Press that Ahmadullah's brother and two close associates were
	www.suite101.com /print_message.cfm/investing/68672/575807 (142 words)

	Pravda.RU Taleban Will Surrender Kandahar In 2 Days (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Afghan Islamic Press noted that Mullah Omar intended to discuss his decision with the Taleban leaders and the tribal elders.
		Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Vyacheslav Trubnikov and his Canadian counterpart Jim Wright, who is in Moscow in connection with a regular round of the Russian-Canadian consultations on strategic stability, discussed issues of joint struggle against terrorism, stepping up the world community's efforts to counteract new threats to international security and stability.
		An Il-76 aircraft of Russia's Ministry for Emergency Situations, carrying 35 tons of humanitarian aid for the Afghan population, made the first flight from Tajikistan's Dushanbe to the Bagram base in Afghanistan on Saturday.
	english.pravda.ru /war/2001/12/06/23099.html (1645 words)

	Shia News \| Asia \| US warns Taliban against any Osama attack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The United States Friday warned Taliban regime that it would be held responsible if Osama bin Laden attacked US interests, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported.
		US ambassador William B. Milam met with the Taliban envoy in Islamabad, Abdul Salam Zaeef, to convey US concerns over reports that Osama supporters were planning terrorist strikes on US interests worldwide, it said.
		AIP said this was the first time the US ambassador had visited the Taliban embassy in Pakistan, which is among only three countries to have recognised the Islamic militia.
	www.shianews.com /hi/asia/news_id/0001168.php (325 words)

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