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	Afghanistan timeline \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Afghanistan's elections postponed to September, owing to insecurity and the UN's slow pace in registering voters.
		Afghanistan's rival factions agree on a new constitution, overcoming weeks of discord to set the country on the path to free elections.
		US-led forces in Afghanistan say they have driven back a large concentration of Taliban rebels in the south-east of the country after some of the fiercest fighting since the militia was overthrown almost two years ago.
	www.guardian.co.uk /afghanistan/subsection/0,1284,884042,00.html (924 words)

	Afghanistan timeline January 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the airfield in Kandahar, Afghanistan, a U.S. soldier was shot in the abdomen.
		The governor of Herat Province, Afghanistan, Ismail Khan, placed further restrictions on women's education by banning women being taught by men in privately run courses and by preventing women from attending classes in a building at the same time that men are being taught.
		In Keshende, Afghanistan, one person was killed and three were wounded in an armed clash between forces of Ustad Atta Mohammad and of Abdul Rashid Dostum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afghanistan_timeline_January_2003 (3575 words)

	Afghanistan
		The 1964 constitution proclaims Islam the "sacred religion of Afghanistan" and states that religious rites of the state shall be performed according to Hanafi doctrine.
		In January 2003, the Supreme Court banned cable television nationwide on religious grounds, but the ban was subsequently lifted when the government passed a law in April allowing the resumption of cable services.
		In the spring of 2003, Mariya Sazawar, a journalist in Mazar-e Sharif, was accused of having insulted Islam in an article she had written about the formation of Afghanistan’s next constitution.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2003/24467.htm (3978 words)

	UN Involvement in Afghanistan - UN Security Council - Global Policy Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		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.
		While Afghanistan faces its deadliest phase of violence since 2001, a UN Security Council mission report warns that growing insurgency, corruption, impunity, increased opium trade and weak governance cause “despondency and disillusionment” among Afghans.
		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 (2861 words)

	Independent Lens . AFGHANISTAN UNVEILED . Afghan Women's Rights \| PBS
		Afghanistan has the second highest maternity mortality rate in the world, with an estimated 15,000 women dying each year from pregnancy-related causes.
		With one third of Afghanistan’s population having fled the country during the 1980s Soviet occupation, Afghans now compose the world’s largest refugee population.
		In 2003, a coalition of Afghan and Afghan American women drafted an Afghan Women’s Bill of Rights, demanding mandatory education for girls, equal representation in the loya jirga, criminalization of sexual harassment and domestic violence and the right to marry and divorce according to Islamic law.
	www.pbs.org /independentlens/afghanistanunveiled/women.html (707 words)

	2003 - dKosopedia
		January 28: George W. Bush utters the infamous 16 words in his State of the Union Address.
		January: Democratic Governor of Maine John Balducci takes office and faces a current budget shortfall of $50 million and an expected revenue gap of $1 billion over the next two year period.
		December 31: German national Khalid Masri is kidnapped in Macedonia in an extraordinary rendition to a secret prison in Afghanistan by the CIA.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/2003 (1483 words)

	Iraq War Timeline : Resources : Wage Peace Campaign : AFSC
		To the contrary, he is deceiving.” He goes on to claim that the Iraqi leader “has shown utter contempt for the United Nations and the opinion of the world.” He announces he is ready to attack Iraq, even without a UN mandate.
		24, 2003- The United States, Great Britain, and Spain submit a proposed resolution to the UN Security Council stating, “ Iraq has failed to take the final opportunity afforded to it in Resolution 1441.” The resolution concludes it is time to authorize use of military force.
		July 13, 2003- Iraq's interim governing council, composed of 25 Iraqis appointed by U.S. and British officials, is inaugurated.
	www.afsc.org /iraq/guide/war-timeline.htm (1669 words)

	Afghanistan
		The area planted with poppies, used to make heroin and morphine, was 152,000 acres in 2003, compared with 76,900 acres in 2002 and 4,210 acres in 2001, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy said in a statement.
		Afghanistan produces 75% of the world's opium, says the UN During the 1990s, five or six provinces in Afghanistan were cultivating opium poppy.
		Oil and gas are not the direct causes of the war in Afghanistan, but understanding the motives of long-term US policy towards that country is important.
	www.oilempire.us /afghanistan.html (3708 words)

	The Debate: Did oil influence America's decision to invade Afghanistan? Were the true motives for war declared? Read ...
		The war on Afghanistan was sold to the public as a reaction to the attacks on 11 September 2001.
		Afghanistan is one of the world's poorest countries, where such an enormous sum sum of money would have had extraordinary value.
		The leader of the new US-controlled interim government in Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, was a key collaborator in the conspiracy to construct the major gas and oil pipe-line in the region, which was the hidden agenda of the US-led invasion.
	www.thedebate.org /thedebate/afghanistan.asp (2807 words)

	Heritage Timeline - Aga Khan - 2003
		2003, October 8: KARACHI: The Aga Khan University is establishing a faculty of arts and sciences on a new 550-acre campus in the outskirts of Karachi.
		Afghanistan has come a long way since the overthrow of the Taliban nearly two years ago but it remains far from achieving the stability needed to attract serious investment and wean itself off foreign aid.
		2003, June 26 - Damascus, Syria, A model of revitalisation, the Souq al Saghir project in Masyaf was inaugurated on June 26th 2003 under the patronage of the Governor of the Hama Province.
	ismaili.net /timeline/2003.html (12374 words)

	Taliban Timeline
		Munguia was the first foreign aid worker killed in Afghanistan since the Taliban was deposed.
		Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld claims that most of Afghanistan is now secure and that American forces had moved from major combat operations to stabilization and reconstruction projects.
		Between 70 and 100 Taliban fighters were killed during a week of clashes in Afghanistan's southeastern Zabul province.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/taliban-time.html (1948 words)

	Special report: Afghanistan \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		The disagreeable truth is that, though we are not losing the war in Afghanistan, we are not winning.
		November 28: When Britain and America went into Afghanistan in 2001, they claimed that the liberation of the country's burka-shrouded women was one of their top priorities.
		A chronology of events in Afghanistan, from January 28 2003 onwards.
	www.guardian.co.uk /afghanistan/0,,548335,00.html (1008 words)

	2003
		Feb 1, 2003 - Six Americans and one Israeli die in the Space Shuttle Columbia as it explodes at 200,000 feet over Texas as it was attempting re-entry and landing.
		The magnitude and timeline of what transpires with Iraq will dictate the number of troops that need to be deployed and the length of time it will take to deploy them.
		March 20, 2003 -- At approximately 02:30 UTC or about 90 minutes after the lapse of the 48-hour deadline, at 5:30 am local time, explosions were heard in Baghdad.
	www.indianamilitary.org /Timelines/2003.htm (10706 words)

	NationMaster - Statistics on Afghanistan. 860 facts and figures, stats and information on Afghan economy, crime, ...
		Timeline of U.S. attack on Afghanistan in December 2001
		Timeline of U.S. attack on Afghanistan in November 2001
		Timeline of U.S. attack on Afghanistan in January 2002
	www.nationmaster.com /country/af-afghanistan (439 words)

	January 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, two independent rebel groups in the west of the country, assisted by fighters from Liberia, have seized villages and the cocoa crops inside those villages, forcing residents to flee to the port of San Pédro with no possessions.
		The INS registration deadline for males in the United States aged 16 and older from Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Eritrea, Lebanon, Morocco, North Korea, Oman, Qatar, Somalia, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
		British humanitarian agency Care International warns that the security situation in Afghanistan is "urgent" and warns that coalition troops should not redirect resources from security to nation-building efforts, as this could enable factional forces to overthrow the internationally backed government in Kabul.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/January_2003 (3624 words)

	Think Progress » A TIMELINE OF THE IRAQ WAR
		The truth is that, for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason [to go to war].
		Violence returned to the streets of Baghdad with a vengeance yesterday when at least 11 people were killed in a massive car bomb explosion outside the Jordanian embassy, leading to fears that guerrilla fighters may now be turning their attention towards so-called soft targets.
		CIA officers in Iraq are warning that the country may be on a path to civil war, current and former U.S. officials said Wednesday, starkly contradicting the upbeat assessment that President Bush gave in his State of the Union address.
	thinkprogress.org /iraq-timeline (3692 words)

	A Timeline of Failure -- In These Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Army acknowledges it is investigating at least thirty-five cases of abuse or torture of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan.
		The structure and the content of the questions from the moderators of the debates can certainly be called into question, but for the Kerry campaign to have allowed openings for Bush to effectively lie about his environmental policy because people forgot or never knew what is was, for example, is astounding.
		The issues the Timeline raises were/are critical ones, and if we get lucky this year and Bush finds himself pulling weeds in Crawford, then we must still raise every issue the Timeline poses, and push Kerry-Edwards so far to the Left to get the country centered once again.
	www.inthesetimes.com /site/main/article/1539 (4641 words)

	2003
		The dollar, now [2003?] a fiat currency, is at a 16-year trade-weighted high despite record US current-account deficits and the status of the US as the leading debtor nation.
		In addition, the use of DU in huge bombs which throw the deadly particles higher and wider in huge plumes of smoke means that billions of deadly particles have been carried high into the air-again and again and again as the bombs rained down-ready to be swept worldwide by the winds.
		Woodward told Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald that the official casually told him in mid June 2003 that Plame worked as a CIA analyst on weapons of mass destruction, and that he did not believe the information to be classified or sensitive, according to a statement Woodward released Tuesday [11/15/05].
	mirrorh.com /timeline2003.html (17676 words)

	USAID Afghanistan: Chronology of Major Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Weekly Activity Update for December 29, 2003 — January 08, 2004; Issue 42 (PDF)
		Afghanistan - Complex Emergency Situation Report #4 (FY 2003) (PDF)
		USAID Funds Ministry of Water and Electricity in Afghanistan
	www.usaid.gov /locations/asia_near_east/afghanistan/timeline.html (913 words)

	Pentagon's quietest calculation: the casualty count
		Yet when Iraqi forces had been destroyed or routed just four days into the ground war, 147 Americans had been killed in combat.
		Since then, there have been no losses to hostile action in the Balkans, and US combat deaths in Afghanistan total 26 so far.
		But some military officers worry that Americans may come to expect "sterile warfare," as one Army officer wounded during the 1983 US invasion of Grenada puts it.
	www.globalsecurity.org /org/news/2003/030127-casualties01.htm (995 words)

	Hobbes' Internet Timeline - the definitive ARPAnet & Internet history
		Permission is granted for use of this document in whole or in part for non-commercial purposes as long as this Copyright notice and a link to this document, at the archive listed at the end, is included.
		If you enjoy the Timeline or make use of it in some way, please consider a contribution.
		Hobbes' Internet Timeline was compiled from a number of sources, with some of the stand-outs being: Cerf, Vinton (as told to Bernard Aboba).
	www.zakon.org /robert/internet/timeline (8031 words)

	TIME Magazine: The CIA's Secret Army
		The agency pulls the plug on efforts to mobilize Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq, convinced that Saddam Hussein is on to the operation
		After the African embassy bombings, the CIA begins an urgent campaign against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
		From the February 3, 2003 issue of TIME Magazine.
	www.time.com /time/covers/1101030203/timeline/6.html (76 words)

	World, January 28, 2003 Timeline
		Prime Minister has hailed Likud Party's triumph as 'historic' and said he will seek to create a broad-based government
		See Sharon, 2003 Timeline ; World Vote Timeline ; Jerusalem Top Stories, 2003 Timeline ; Sharon on Google ; Jerusalem Vote Timeline ; Jerusalem on Google
		President is promising 'focus and clarity and courage'
	www.mapreport.com /years/2003/january/28.html (197 words)

	Congressional Budget Office - Iraq and Afghanistan
		Cost Analyses of Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan
		Additional Information About the Alternative Spending Path for Military Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and for the War on Terrorism
		Additional information on the alternative budget path for war spending that was included in Table 1-8 of The Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update, August 2006
	www.cbo.gov /publications/collections/iraq.cfm (217 words)

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