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	Afghan Warrior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		People are concerned about the presence of the former commanders and jihadi leaders in parliament because people do not have a good impression from them.
		The first one is that the Afghan people know that their new Army is able to fight the enemies and the coalition forces are united with the Afghan Army.
		Some people that didn't vote said most candidates were former commanders and warlords so they don't want to elect them because of their bad past and they said we can not trust the new candidates because we don't know them very well.
	afghanwarrior.blogspot.com (2405 words)

	HISTORY OF MY PEOPLE: The Afghan Muslims of Guyana
		Little is known about the Afghan Muslims of Guyana, in fact, some maybe amazed to learn that Afghans made their way to Guyana among the Indian Muslims.
		Naturally, the strong and fierce Afghans mostly from the Pathan clan settled in the northern plains of India.
		The diet of the Pathan Afghan Guyanese was quite different from the Indian Muslims but eventually the authentic cuisine of the Afghans died as the sprinkle of Afghans interbred with non Afghan Muslims.
	www.afghan-network.net /Culture/afghan-guyana.htm (4031 words)

	United States Congratulates Afghan People on Successful Election - US Department of State
		Once again, the Afghan people have shown that they have seized the moment to establish democracy and secure their freedom.
		Afghan, coalition and the International Security Assistance Force should be congratulated for ensuring the safety of voters across the country, the statement says.
		Afghan, Coalition and ISAF forces should be congratulated for ensuring the safety of voters across the country.
	usinfo.state.gov /sa/Archive/2004/Oct/11-93134.html (1153 words)

	USAID Backgrounder: The U.S. Commitment to the Afghan People
		The United States is providing historic amounts of humanitarian aid to the Afghan people to help them prepare for the opening of school, and to recover from years of civil war, decades of drought and the effects of terrorist rule.
		Afghan refugees who fled in fear now wish to return to their homes, and the United States is doing everything it can to help these refugees in Pakistan, Iran and other neighboring countries re-enter their homeland.
		Afghans have received water purification tablets, soap, and drinking water as well as education on safe hygiene practices, sanitation and waste disposal.
	www.usaid.gov /press/releases/2002/fs020322_2.html (1036 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Asia / Bomb kills six people in Afghan mosque
		The attack occurred on the same day that the aid group Doctors Without Borders announced it was leaving the war-scarred nation, citing factors including deteriorating security and dissatisfaction with an ongoing investigation into the early June slaying of five of the group's staff members in northwest Afghanistan.
		The deaths yesterday resulted from the detonation of an improvised explosive device as employees from the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan were registering voters for the country's Oct. 9 presidential poll, the US-led military coalition said.
		The humanitarian group also said yesterday it was dissatisfied with the Afghan government's investigation into the shooting deaths of its staff members June 2.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2004/07/29/bomb_kills_six_people_in_afghan_mosque (473 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		Afghan media in general have been less enthusiastic about the aims and prospects of the new front.
		Jawed Ludin, a spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai, said that if Washington does make a formal request for permanent bases, any decision would first be discussed by the government and then voted on by the Afghan parliament that is due to be elected in September.
		Afghans claimed they attacked the Germans for taking photographs of women returning from a wedding party -- an act in contradiction with traditional Afghan culture -- while the Germans deny that claim.
	www.rferl.org /reports/afghan-report/2005/04/12-110405.asp (3950 words)

	AOP: Today's News on Afghanistan
		Afghan women suffer from some of the world’s highest levels of illiteracy, maternal mortality, and impoverishment.
		Over 1,300 people including rebels, Afghan and US troops as well as pro-government figures and even aid workers have been killed in Taliban-linked militancy since the beginning of this year.
		Some 40,000 people were killed in Pakistan and the Pakistani-administered region of Kashmir by the effects of the 8 October earthquake, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
	www.aopnews.com /today.html (3661 words)

	Afghan people hear America's side of story from flying radio station (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The broadcasts stress that the coalition campaign is not aimed at the Afghan people, but at the terrorists and their Taliban supporters.
		Another broadcast told the people of Afghanistan why the United States is attacking the Taliban and al Qaeda.
		The broadcast went on to explain that the attacks in New York and the Pentagon were on innocent people -- an act forbidden by the Muslim Koran.
	www.dcmilitary.com /airforce/beam/6_44/national_news/11742-1.html (496 words)

	Food Has Now Run Out for Many Afghan People - UN Security Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There are still thousands of people that can and must be reached by a significantly increased delivery of food into Afghanistan by land, and by air drops and lifts into secure zones.
		This suggests that the majority of people are still in their homes and may have even been joined by people fleeing the cities.
		Around 350,000 people in Badghis, Ghor, and Faryab are located in areas soon to be largely cut off by the onset of snows during November.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/afghan/2001/1101oxfam.htm (1153 words)

	Current U.S. Food Shipments to the Afghan People
		Afghans in Kabul load food supplies from the WFP and the U.S. Agency for International Development onto a bicycle on October 2, 2001.
		Of the remaining 10 percent, 7 percent is lentils or beans needed to provide protein, and 3 percent is in vegetable oils necessary for a balanced meal.
		We are printing "Gift of the People of the United States" in Pashto and Dari and a large U.S. flag on each bag of food.
	www.usembassy.be /pamphlet/english/13.htm (518 words)

	Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Afghan people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article should probably be moved to Afghan (people) Falphin 21:33, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
		Actually, I was going to ask why English (people) isn't at English people, like Danish people, Norwegian people, Dutch people, Swedish people, etc. --Dmcdevit 21:38, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
		Keep as LONG as there is a mention that not all people in Afghanistan consider themselves Afghans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Afghan_people (402 words)

	Afghan People Are Victims, Too
		Miller fails to note the Taliban demonstrate a disturbing disregard for their own civilians, leading campaigns of terror against Afghan women, ethnic and religious minorities for years.
		Anne Brodsky is a psychologist who works with the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), a human rights organization, dedicated to involving Afghan women in the fight for democracy in Afghanistan.
		She visited Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan during July and August, 2001.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views01/0921-05.htm (764 words)

	Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		RAWA is the oldest political/social organization of Afghan women struggling for peace, freedom, democracy and women's rights in fundamentalism-blighted Afghanistan since 1977.
		Afghan Woman Accused of Being U.S. Spy Is Killed
		Afghan editor forced to flee to Canada: Target of religious law
	www.rawa.org (893 words)

	News from the Washington File
		The Taliban have made the Afghan people the unwilling hosts of foreign armed terrorists, who have exploited and endangered the Afghan people, and made Afghanistan a pariah in the world community.
		These restrictions are devastating for the thousands of Afghan war widows, who have reportedly been reduced to selling their possessions or begging to feed their families.
		-- They have looted and destroyed the historical and cultural patrimony of the Afghan people -- the Kabul Museum, formerly one of the finest museums in the region, is largely empty; the centuries-old Buddhist statues in Bamiyan have been reduced to rubble.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2001/10/mil-011017-usia14e.htm (1279 words)

	US Dept of State - Humanitarian Aid to the Afghan People
		This fact sheet outlines the efforts as of October 15, 2001, to provide relief assistance to the Afghan people while the United States and its allies conduct military operations against targets involving the Al Qaida terrorist network and the Taliban regime which shelters it in Afghanistan.
		Terrorists are our enemy, and the Afghan people have suffered greatly because of the terrorists in their midst.
		Millions of Afghans are facing imminent starvation due to four years of extreme drought, to continuing conflict, and to Taliban misrule and oppression.
	usinfo.state.gov /is/Archive_Index/Humanitarian_Aid_to_the_Afghan_People-4072c45bad525.html (805 words)

	Local man's journey aids Afghan people
		Although the new plant is located on a military base that will not serve the general public, such a project can help foster improved overall living conditions for the Afghan people - and that serves America's best interests, said Kevin Henry, advocacy director for CARE USA, a humanitarian group whose outreach includes Afghanistan.
		He estimates that 90 percent of the Afghan people lack access to potable water and decent sewage-disposal systems.
		Poynter observed: "People told me that, when the Taliban took over, they would take people to a soccer field in the middle of Kabul and they'd just behead them.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/2003/10/06/loc_wwwloc2kabul.html (664 words)

	CARE Reaches Across Borders to Help Afghan People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		CARE also is distributing food to 50,000 destitute people - widows and their families, who would otherwise be begging to survive.
		Another CARE project is providing water and sanitation services to tens of thousands of Afghans who fled their villages for the capital during fighting last spring.
		CARE has purchased tents for 10,000 people and tens of thousands of family kits, including blankets and warm clothing.
	careusa.org /newsroom/pressreleases/2001/oct/acrossborders101901.asp (546 words)

	Current U.S. Food Shipments to the Afghan People
		Nearly half the population, 12 million people, are drought affected, 5 to 7 million will need food aid to make it through the winter, and 1.5 million are at serious risk of starvation.
		The Afghan people are used to eating flat bread made from wheat flour, so about 90 percent of the food going in is wheat.
		The United States also will implement a public information campaign so that the Afghan people know the aid is on the way.
	www.usembassy.be /pamphlet/english/print/sbcurrent.htm (488 words)

	Afghanistan—Who's Who
		Karzai was named to head an interim Afghan government on Dec. 5, 2001, after eight days of discussions held in Bonn, Germany, between various Afghan factions.
		A founder of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan in 1964, he was elected to parliament in 1965 and 1969.
		An ayatollah (religious leader), Mazari was elected chairman of the Afghan Shi'ite Alliance in 1980, which was headquartered in Iran, and later Pakistan, during the Soviet occupation.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/afghanistan1.html (2057 words)

	America's Assistance to the Afghan People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Afghan relief workers, who are the ones running the program now, many of whom have worked for the NGOs and the U.N. for 20 years, are very dedicated Afghan relief workers and very capable people.
		People die of hunger in famines because of the skyrocketing price of food and sometimes a collapse of family income and the depletion of family assets.
		Three things that kill people in famines, particularly this kind of a famine, are, one, malnutrition obviously, but 90 percent of the people in famines do not die from actually starving to death, which usually in the last stage is kidney failure.
	commdocs.house.gov /committees/intlrel/hfa75926.000/hfa75926_0.htm (18623 words)

	CNN.com - Bush offers condolences to Afghan people - July 2, 2002
		WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush offered his condolences Tuesday to the Afghan people for the innocent civilians killed in Monday's incident during a military operation in central Afghanistan.
		"On behalf of the American people, the president extends his deep condolences for the loss of innocent life no matter what the cause is determined to be.
		In the meantime, we are consulting with Afghan authorities on the humanitarian needs of the people in the area.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/US/07/02/bush.afghan.deaths (283 words)

	Is America Helping Afghanistan? Essays and Articles at eNotes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In January 2004, the Afghan minister of foreign affairs, Abdullah Abdullah, said that the constitution was the first among Muslim countries in the region to marry respect for Islam with human rights for men, women, and members of ethnic minorities, and was a “source of inspiration for other Islamic countries.”
		Islamic fundamentalists are not the only Afghan people who are voicing their discontent with the U.S. presence in Afghanistan.
		When the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989, the United States and the international community abandoned the impoverished and war-weary Afghan people, who had lost more than a million of their compatriots during the superpower rivalries of the 1970s and 1980s.
	www.enotes.com /america-helping/65674/print (1809 words)

	Department of State Washington File: Text: Secretary Powell Congratulates Afghan People on Occasion of New Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He pointed out that more than 2.5 million Afghan refugees and internally displaced persons returned home in the past year, and said that Afghan leaders have demonstrated their commitment to building a democratic, constitutional government.
		The Afghan people are enjoying newfound freedoms, and for the first time in decades, the country is largely at peace.
		The World Bank estimates that the Afghan economy grew by ten percent last year, and the streets and markets of Afghanistan are bustling with new commercial activities and foreign investors are making their first inroads with the signing of an agreement to build a Hyatt hotel.
	adelaide.usvpp.gov /hyper/2003/0322/epf605.htm (615 words)

	DefenseLINK News: DoD Continues to Drop Rations, Info to Afghan People
		"This is bringing needed food to hungry Afghan people as well as a message of friendship from the American people," he said in a Pentagon press briefing.
		One flyer says, "The partnership of nations is here to help" with a picture of an American service member shaking an Afghan's hand on one side, and, "The partnership of nations is here to help the people of Afghanistan" on the other.
		"We're working to make clear to the Afghan people that we support them and we want to help free their nation from the grip of the Taliban and (the Taliban's) foreign terrorist allies," Rumsfeld said.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/Oct2001/n10152001_200110152.html (522 words)

	Report: 130 Afghan People Executed
		UNITED NATIONS –– Taliban soldiers executed Afghan civilians indiscriminately after taking over the strategic Yakoalong district this year, according to a U.N. report released Friday.
		Kamal Hossain, author of the report, said about 130 civilians were executed – most of them by firing squad – during three days of carnage after the Taliban took over Yakoalong from opposition forces in January.
		Fifty more people were reported killed later in January.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/aponline/20011026/aponline182059_000.htm (450 words)

	Salon.com News \| An Afghan-American speaks
		And when you think "the people of Afghanistan" think "the Jews in the concentration camps." It's not only that the Afghan people had nothing to do with this atrocity.
		These are a few of the reasons why the Afghan people have not overthrown the Taliban.
		When people speak of "having the belly to do what needs to be done" they're thinking in terms of having the belly to kill as many as needed.
	www.salon.com /news/feature/2001/09/14/afghanistan (835 words)

	Forgotten Coverage of Afghan "Freedom Fighters": The villains of today's news were heroes in the '80s
		The current war in Afghanistan is increasingly presented as a war for the human rights of the Afghan people, to liberate them from their oppressive Taliban rulers.
		Lohbeck was a partisan of the Mujahiddin and of one guerrilla leader in particular, Abdul Haq, for whom he served in effect as a publicist....
		U.S. and Afghan sources say furthermore that, while he was on contract for CBS, Lohbeck set up a press conference for the guerillas and coached them on how to address skeptical Western reporters.
	www.fair.org /extra/0201/afghanistan-80s.html (2559 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. drops food, aid to Afghan people - October 8, 2001
		U.S. aircraft dropped daily rations for 37,500 people in the regions of Afghanistan where displaced persons are at risk of starvation.
		EDT, two U.S. Air Force C-17 aircraft finished an airdrop of enough daily rations for 37,500 people in the regions of Afghanistan where displaced persons are at risk of starvation.
		This airdrop will assist the Afghan people who are coping with the growing humanitarian crisis.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/US/10/08/ret.air.drops.aid (275 words)

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