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  Afghanistan timeline 2000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
April 25 - The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan foreign ministry accused the United Nations of being an enemy of Islam and of favoring the Northern Alliance.
April 27 - The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan was not invited to the two-day summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Mid-September - Although Afghanistan remains the world's biggest producer of opium, the UN drug control agency announces that the country's crop for 2000 appears to be 30% smaller than that harvested in 1999.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afghanistan_timeline_July_2000   (2412 words)

  
 Timeline 2000 November-December
2000 Nov 5, Haile Selassie (1892-1975), former ruler Ethiopia (1930-1974), was buried in a cathedral crypt.
2000 Nov 19, In Austria 4 skiers died in avalanches in the Tyrol.
2000 Dec 29, In Gaza a Palestinian police officer was killed in a shootout as Israeli soldiers bulldozed a grove of trees.
timelines.ws /20thcent/2000_F.HTML   (15119 words)

  
 Afghanistani - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Afghanistani   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Tajiks were traditionally sedentary cereal cultivators and traders and were the original inhabitants of Afghanistan.
In response to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan 1979, the Pathans, Tajiks, Turkomen, Hazara, Uzbek and other ethnic groups mounted a rebellion of Mujahedin (fighters in a holy war or jihad).
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Afghanistani   (260 words)

  
 Afghanistan War - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Afghanistan War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Three wars waged between Britain and Afghanistan to counter the threat to British India from expanding Russian influence in Afghanistan.
First Afghan War (1838–42): the British invaded Afghanistan to protect their own interests after Persia, encouraged by Russia, became involved in the region.
Although successful at first, a later Afghan rising drove them out of Afghanistan, and of the 4,000 British who formed the garrison of Kabul only one arrived safely at Jalalabad.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Afghanistan+War   (223 words)

  
 Afghanland.com Afghanistan Timeline since 1919
Soviet army invaded Afghanistan in a campaign to capture Ibrahim Beg a Uzbek rebel fining against the soviets in Uzbekistan.
Elections were held in Afghanistan and the PDPA members made inflammatory statements instead of pushing their agenda which resulted in scraping the idea of Constitutional Monarchy.
Karzai is elected as head of state of the new government of Afghanistan by the loya jirga.
www.afghanland.com /history/timeline/timeline.html   (2097 words)

  
 DAWN - Opinion; November 7, 2001
Rashid is therefore of the view that the fear of fragmentation of Afghanistan is a strong possibility — a Pushtun south under the Taliban and a non-Pushtun north divided by the Hindukush mountains.
A day later the same newspaper carried its main Afghanistan story under the title of “Strategy fails to splinter Taliban.” There was a palpable sense of disappointment in America at the failure of the anti-Taliban elements to coalesce into a viable alternative for the ruling group.
Henry Kissinger wrote recently that "military operations in Afghanistan should be limited to the shattering of the Taliban and the disintegration of the bin Laden network" and that the objective of nation-building though "desirable" was "not encouraged by the historical record”.
www.dawn.com /2001/11/07/op.htm   (5616 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.
Operation Avalanche involves some 2,000 soldiers and is intended to keep Taliban insurgents on the defensive during a historic constitutional council.
www.infoplease.com /spot/taliban-time.html   (1914 words)

  
 Center for Cooperative Research
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.
cooperativeresearch.org /timeline.jsp?...&startpos=100   (579 words)

  
 Mapleleafweb.com: Spolight - Military Update: Canada and Afghanistan - Timeline
Canada is approached by the international community for assistance in maintaining peace and security in Afghanistan under the United Nations mandate.
Canada begins transporting vehicles and equipment to be used by Canadian forces in Afghanistan to the region.
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai travels to Ottawa at the invitation of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.
www.mapleleafweb.com /education/spotlight/issue_43/timeline.html   (449 words)

  
 Timeline of US Torture in Guantanamo, Afghanistan, and Iraq : July/August 2004 : Peacework
This timeline is part of two lesson plans designed to help teachers create discussions about the prisoner of war torture revelations available at www.teachablemoment.org.
White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales in a memo advised President Bush to declare the prisoners in the "war on terror" to be outside the protections of the Geneva Conventions (for a description of the Geneva Conventions, please see the report at www.teachablemoment.org, American Treatment of Iraqi and Afghan Prisoners: An Introduction).
John D. Hutson, who was the Navy's judge advocate general from 1997 to 2000, said of the current investigations: "I think in a very narrow sense we'll see that justice was done for the seven low-level soldiers, or whatever number it ends up being.
www.afsc.org /pwork/0407/040712.htm   (1605 words)

  
 CNN.com - Search focuses on southern Afghanistan - November 27, 2001
Author Larry Goodson said the caves and tunnels of southern Afghanistan are unlikely to be destroyed strictly by aerial attack and could allow Taliban troops and al Qaeda operatives to move long distances without surfacing.
The October 2000 bombing of the destroyer USS Cole in Yemen was blamed on bin Laden.
The Taliban: A group of Islamic fundamentalists, mainly from Afghanistan's Pashtun ethnic group, which is the country's largest ethnic group.
archives.cnn.com /2001/US/11/27/ret.frontlines.facts/index.html   (694 words)

  
 The Gun Zone -- A 5.56 X 45mm "Timeline" 2000-2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
However, the introduction of the stocks is delayed from July 2000 until January 2001.
The MNS are intended for use by the USMC on M4, M16A2, and M16A4.
The Bayonet 2000 is intended to replace the M7 Bayonet throughout the Fleet Marine Force.
www.thegunzone.com /556dw-6.html   (11922 words)

  
 Det danske Fredsakademis kronologi over fredssagen og international politik november 2004 / Timeline November, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
And they will be tossed again in November 2004, efficiently, by computer--because HAVA and other bogus reform measures, stressing reform through complex computerization, do not address, and in fact worsen, the racial bias of the uncounted vote.
CAIRO, November 21 (IslamOnline.net) – Iraqi children are paying the silent cost of the US-led occupation with malnutrition rates exceeding by far those in the world’s poorest and disease-plagued countries, a leading US newspaper reported on Sunday, November 21.
The front page of the San Francisco Chronicle, November 8, 2004 has a photograph taken by N.Y. Times photographer Shawn Baldwin at the hospital showing the United States forces guarding a number of patients who are lying on the floor with their hands bound.
www.fredsakademiet.dk /tid/2000/2004/nov04.htm   (14975 words)

  
 Unocal and Bridas Woo the Taliban for Oil Pipeline Project
Timeline of Competition between Unocal and Bridas for the Afghanistan Pipeline
Turkmenisatn, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, and Afghanistan agree that Turkmenistan should name the consortium to build the pipeline.
This timeline owes a heavy debt to Ahmed Rashid's excellent study, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (Yale UP, 2000).
www.worldpress.org /specials/pp/pipeline_timeline.htm   (973 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.
Though connected in November, the link's inauguration by California's Governor and Mexico's President was not until March of 2001.
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)

  
 Timeline 1999 November
He was convicted of 1st degree murder in 2000 and sentenced to life in prison.
1999 Nov 18, In Afghanistan Taliban fighter planes bombed the opposition held Panjshir Valley and at least 13 people were killed and 64 wounded.
In 2000 Vicente Carillo Fuentes, believed to be in charge of all drug trafficking in Ciudad Juarez, was charged with killing 10 people in the area.
timelines.ws /20thcent/1999_11.HTML   (6171 words)

  
 actorsequity.org | timeline 2000's
The 2000 election between Al Gore and George W. Bush is the longest in over 100 years as the too-close-to-call vote count in Florida becomes a storm of recrimination and anxiety.
Equity donates $50,000 to The Actors’ Fund Special September 11th Campaign which was created to provide relief to show people affected by the attack.
In November, the U.N. Security Council unanimously passes Resolution 1441, calling for unfettered access for U.N. inspectors and Hussein's immediate disarmament.
www.actorsequity.org /AboutEquity/timeline/timeline_2000.html   (1546 words)

  
 New Millennium TimeLine - 1998 November
The mid-term elections earlier in November have strengthened the President.
After high level consultations at the White House, Washington was asking for the immediate withdrawal of all UN personnel from Iraq.
As Americans unravel the international network surrounding Osama bin Laden, the man they blame for the Nairobi and dar es Salaam embassy bombings, it becomes clear he was trained by an Egyptian who was clearly working for the US Government.
www.garfnet.org.uk /new_mill/timeline/199811.htm   (3914 words)

  
 NucNews - November 3, 2000
Endeavor, which is scheduled to launch on November 30, is to deliver what will be the largest solar energy collectors ever deployed in space.
The Clinton administration is quietly building a case for retaliation against terrorist leader Osama bin Laden and his supporters for the bombing of the USS Cole.
Some experts argue that the amount of C-4 used in the bombing, and the sophistication needed to attack a U.S. warship on a short port visit, indicated that the two men aboard the small boat that exploded alongside the Cole likely were backed by a government hostile to the United States.
nucnews.net /nucnews/2000nn/0011nn/001103nn.htm   (19414 words)

  
 New Millennium TimeLine - 2000-12
Foxhunting supporters in the South vowed to battle on today after a potential ban on the blood sport moved a step closer.  A bill that could outlaw hunting with hounds cleared its first major hurdle after MPs voted to give it a second reading.
The Australian military faced demands for the expansion of an inquiry into the army after claims that three neo-Nazis had been members of a battalion in which assault and illegal punishment have been alleged.
A £1.7 million package to restart mine clearance in Afghanistan that has about 3,000 landmine victims a year was announced by the UN yesterday.
www.garfnet.org.uk /new_mill/timeline/200012.htm   (2532 words)

  
 F-16.net :: F-16 Timeline - Events in 2000
Scott Baldwin lands his F-16C safely with the engine stuck in full mil power, earning him the 2000 Semper Viper award.
Maiden flight of the F-16 "power-by-wire" technology demonstrator,it the first aircraft to fly with all-electric flight-control actuation and no mechanical backup.
Craig Marion leads an 8-hour combat flight over Afghanistan to defend an Army convoy, earning him the 2001 Semper Viper award.
www.f-16.net /f-16_timeline_year-2000.html   (157 words)

  
 U.S. Army - Timeline of Terrorism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In Kabul, Afghanistan, an assailant detonated a bomb on Chicken Street, a shopping area for tourists, killing two civilians (1 American, 1 Afghan) and wounding three Icelandic soldiers and five Afghan civilians.
In the Shari-I-Naw area near Kabul, Afghanistan, an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded, killing ten people (3 American, 3 Nepalese, 4 Afghan) and wounding twenty-two others (1 American, 2 Nepalese, 19 Afghan).
On 1 May in Makeni, Sierra Leone, Revolutionary United Front (RUF) militants kidnapped at least 20 members of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) and surrounded and opened fire on a UNAMSIL facility, according to press reports.
www.army.mil /terrorism/2004-2000/index.html   (3974 words)

  
 THE COMPLETE 9/11 TIMELINE, PART 1: 1979 - Dec. 2000
Several of the bombers were trained by the CIA to fight in the Afghan war, and the CIA later concludes in internal documents that it was "partly culpable" for this bombing attempt.
Spring 1995: In the wake of the uncovering of the Operation Bojinka plot, a letter written by the terrorists who planned the failed 1993 WTC bombing (see February 26, 1993) is found on a computer disk in the Philippines.
In 1996, Ariana Airlines, the national airline of Afghanistan, is essentially taken over by al-Qaeda and becomes the transportation for an illegal trade network.
s3.amazonaws.com /911timeline/main/timelinebefore2001.html   (12194 words)

  
 CNN.com - Lucas van den Broeck: Food aid to Afghanistan - November 1, 2001
For the moderately malnourished child, we usually give 2000 calories per day, plus a quarter to half of that more in addition.
The ration is exactly what the US drops, and the content is correct, 10% proteins, 30% fats, and the rest carbohydrates.
This is an edited transcript of the chat which took place on Thursday, November 1, 2001.
edition.cnn.com /2001/COMMUNITY/11/01/broeck   (1319 words)

  
 Al-Qaida timeline: Plots and attacks - Hunt for Al-Qaida - MSNBC.com
After two months of planning, Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing, travels to Karachi, the hometown of Benazir Bhutto, then former prime minister of Pakistan, who is seeking to regain her old job.
He and two others are in the process of planting a remote control bomb on the road when the ageing Soviet detonator he obtained in Afghanistan explodes in his face, ending the plot.
Financing for the bombing comes from radical Islamic groups in Pakistan, according to Bhutto.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4677978   (647 words)

  
 India - Timeline Year 2000
External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh says in Parliament that there was triangular coordination between Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan-based terrorist organisations and Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban, in the hijack of flight IC-814, in December 1999.
Police in Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, unearth an illegal bomb-manufacturing unit and seize at least 20 country made bombs.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) says there is no need for the Union Government to enact the Prevention of Terrorism Bill, 2000 or any similar law.
www.satp.org /satporgtp/countries/india/timeline/2000.htm   (1632 words)

  
 UN, 2000 Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Last effort to agree a deal on practical measures to deal with global warming
See World Environment Timeline ; UN, 2000 Timeline ; Netherlands, 2000 Timeline ; Netherlands Environment Timeline ; Climate conference on Google ; Netherlands on Google
Mary Robinson, human rights chief accuses Israel of using excessive force
www.mapreport.com /years/2000/countries/un.html   (236 words)

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