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	Afghanistan timeline 2000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		April 22 - Swarms of locusts descended on drought-hit wheat crops and fruit orchards in Baghlan province, Afghanistan.
		April 24 - In the Darra-e-Noor area of the Khewa district in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, dozens were killed in a clash between Taliban forces and supporters of Hazrat Ali, commander of the defunct Eastern Shoora.
		April 27 - The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan was not invited to the two-day summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) in Islamabad, Pakistan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afghanistan_timeline_February_2000 (2412 words)

	Afghanistan timeline January–June 2001 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		==April 17, 2001== The second of five rounds of polio immunizations to be held this year begins after the Taliban and the Afghan Northern Alliance agreed to a week-long ceasefire.
		The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan announced it was allowing all humanitarian organizations, including the United Nations, to continue their operations, except for the offices of United Nations Special Mission for Afghanistan.
		In Ghor province, Afghanistan, Taliban fighter planes bombed the Ghalmin district in support of a two-pronged infantry attack in which two opposition soldiers were wounded and six militia men killed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afghanistan_timeline_April_2001 (1536 words)

	Timeline 2000 March-April
		2000 Mar 7, In Kosovo 24 civilians and 16 French peacekeepers were wounded in a street battle that escalated from a fight between a Serb and Albanian in Mitrovica.
		2000 Mar 20, In Kashmir gunmen massacred 35 Sikhs in Chati Sionghpura Mattan.
		2000 Apr 19, In the Brittany region of France a bomb exploded in a McDonald’s restaurant in Dinan and one worker was killed.
	www.timelines.ws /20thcent/2000_B.HTML (13110 words)

	frontline: teacher center: teachers guide: roots of terrorism\| PBS
		Afghanistan's last king, Mohammad Zahir Shah, took the throne at the age of 18 after his father, Mohammad Nadir Shah, was assassinated.
		The new state of Pakistan to Afghanistan's south saw the Durand Line as its border, but the Afghan government disagreed, arguing that it had been established under British pressure and that it was inappropriate because it divided the Pushtun people between the two countries.
		The withdrawal of Britain from South Asia and the rise of the Cold War brought Afghanistan gradually under the shadow of the Soviet Union in the 1950s, as the United States government was unwilling to match Soviet influence in the country.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/teach/afghanistan/timeline.html (1896 words)

	Timeline Afghanistan
		The capital of Afghanistan was transferred from Kandahar to Kabul because of tribal opposition.
		2000 May 1, In Afghanistan fighting was halted from May 1 to 5 to allow UN workers to immunize some 4.5 million children under age 5 against polio.
		2000 Sep 1, The mine-clearing operations were scheduled to be cut by 50% after the UN reported lack of funds.
	timelines.ws /countries/AFGHANISTAN.HTML (14065 words)

	CBSNews.com
		Soviet troops invade Afghanistan and 600,000 flee to Pakistan.
		Heavy fighting between Taliban forces and the Northern Alliance and severe drought in Afghanistan drive 170,000 refugees to Pakistan by the end of the year.
		Seeking to reassure jittery allies that Afghanistan is safe for reconstruction, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld declares that major combat operations there are over.
	www.cbsnews.com /htdocs/afghanistan/timeline.html (236 words)

	Afghanistan
		The Soviet Union and Afghanistan, 1978-1989: Documents from the Russian and East German Archives is a collection of documents published by the Cold War International History Project, and Gorbachev's Statement on Afghanistan, 8 February 1988, announced the imminent Soviet troop withdrawal.
		Another essay, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Russia: A Triangle of Instability and Conflict by Howard Fienberg has some value, while the personal memoir by Mohammad Ismail Sloan, A Brief History of the in Afghanistan, is very interesting.
		The Afghanistan Educational Web Site contains a variety of sources of current events and information, including biographies and a chronology, while another good site for political information and current events is Political Resources on the Net - Afghanistan.
	novaonline.nvcc.edu /eli/evans/his135/Events/Afghanistan79.htm (1319 words)

	UN Involvement in Afghanistan - UN Security Council - Global Policy Forum
		Despite these initiatives, Afghanistan remains a “failed state.” The authority of President Hamid Karzai, victor in the presidential election of October 2004, barely extends beyond Kabul’s suburbs and warlords are once again in control of most of the country.
		Experts predict that Afghanistan's 2005 parliamentary elections will face more difficulties than the 2004 presidential election because "a real transfer of local power will be at stake." Security concerns and unresolved election boundaries pose significant problems for the elections.
		The absence of a strong central government in Afghanistan has rendered the voluntary disarmament of various groups in conflicts problematic, as they are reluctant to give up power amid instability and lawlessness in order to protect their own interests.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/afgindx.htm (2455 words)

	CBSNews.com
		Shortly after the split, Abu Sayyaf conducts its first major terrorist attack in which two foreign women are killed by a grenade explosion.
		Abu Sabaya, a spokesman for the faction holding Schilling says his group is demanding the release of Ramzi Youssef, Sheikh Adel Omar Rahman and Abu Haidal from American jails.
		The remaining four Western hostages - two Finns, one French and one German - taken on April 23 from Sipadan are freed.
	www.cbsnews.com /htdocs/abu_sayyaf/timeline.html (856 words)

	Global Connections . Timeline \| PBS
		July 28, 2000: The leader of Afghanistan's Taliban regime bans the growing of opium poppy.
		He augments the ban with a religious edict declaring the crop to be contrary to the tenets of Islam.
		October 12, 2000: The USS Cole is attacked in a Yemeni harbor.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/timeline/text/quspolicy.html (2583 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation > America's War on Terror -- Padilla timeline
		–March 2000: Padilla joins the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, where he meets a Yemeni man, "the recruiter," and becomes interested in undergoing training in Afghanistan to become an al-Qaeda fighter.
		He later is turned over to the recruiter's associate, "the sponsor," who arranges to get Padilla into Afghanistan.
		–Late 2000: Atef gives Padilla $1,400 to return to Egypt to visit his family, with the understanding that he would return to Afghanistan.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/terror/20040601-1440-padilla-timeline.html (644 words)

	Center for Cooperative Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The timeline will provide a detailed account of how our health care system has become the most expensive and inefficient system in the industrialized world.
		The timeline on the United States’ use of incendiary weapons has been updated.
		The timeline on the forged documents has been updated to include recently reported information.
	www.cooperativeresearch.org /timeline.jsp?timeline=us_support_of_iraq_wmd (642 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Khadr
		There had been allegations that Abdullah ran an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan while he was a teenager in the 1990s.
		The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, which provokes the declaration of a holy war.
		Ahmed Said travels to Afghanistan to fight against Soviet forces as a volunteer.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/khadr/timeline.html (1438 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Osama bin Laden
		Qari Saifullah Akhtar, a top-level al-Qaeda member accused of running a training camp in Afghanistan is arrested in the United Arab Emirates.
		Six Yemenis are charged with planning the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole.
		Osama bin Laden founds an international group known as al-Qaeda, which in Arabic means "the base." It is formed primarily of mujahedeen, meaning holy warriors, and others fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/osamabinladen/alqaeda_timeline.html (1469 words)

	CBS
		CBS News Correspondent Jim Axelrod, embedded with the U.S. Army's Third Infantry Division, is believed to be the first journalist in Iraq to file a live report of ground troops engaged in combat.
		In April, Axelrod is the first journalist to send live images from the tarmac of the Baghdad airport moments after coalition forces take control.
		Data for this timeline were compiled from the CBS "Columbine" special history issue of 1974; The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946 to Present by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, copyright 2003; and As It Happened: A Memoir by William S. Paley, Famous First Facts (3rd Edition).
	www.cbs.com /specials/cbs_75/timeline/2000.shtml (2047 words)

	April
		Tribal leaders from the treacherous mountainous areas along the border with Afghanistan have an unambiguous message for American commanders who have suggested that they might enter the region in pursuit of Al Qaeda fighters: Don't.
		It has now been confirmed that the incident of Monday 15 April 2002, about which the Pentagon announced that four American soldiers had been killed and others were missing when ordnance they were defusing, blew up, was not an accident but a martyrdom operation by an Afghan Mujahid.
		Human intelligence sources in Venezuela and Washington told STRATFOR April 14 that the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. State Department may have been involved separately in the events that took place in Caracas between April 5 and April 13.
	darrendixon.supanet.com /april.htm (9874 words)

	US PREPARING FOR A WAR WITH AFGHANISTAN BEFORE 9/11, INCREASING CONTROL OF ASIA BEFORE AND SINCE
		In April, Tommy Franks, the commander of US forces in the Persian Gulf/South Asia area, testifies to Congress in April that his command's key mission is "access to [the region's] energy resources."
		He is later killed entering Afghanistan in October 2001, after his position is betrayed to the Taliban by the ISI (see October 25, 2001).
		At least 3,000 people are killed. A more detailed timeline focusing on the hours of this attack appears on a separate page.
	s3.amazonaws.com /911timeline/main/AAafghanwar.html (6979 words)

	US History Timeline: Cold War
		1949 April North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established.
		1965 April U.S. sends troops to the Dominican Republic.
		Aug. U.S. commits combat troops to South Vietnam.
	faculty.washington.edu /qtaylor/a_us_history/cold_war_timeline.htm (278 words)

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