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  Afghanistan timeline October 2003 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Helmand province, Afghanistan, two Afghan military intelligence agents were killed and three others wounded when their pickup truck hit a landmine.
In Zabul province, Afghanistan, eight policemen were killed when around 100 suspected rebel fighters attacked government offices.
In the Nish area north of Kandahar, Afghanistan, ten Afghan National Army soldiers and two children were killed in their vehicles when they were ambushed by 16 rebels in two vehicles.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Afghanistan_timeline_October_2003   (2357 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Afghanistan timeline
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   (915 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)

  
 2003 - dKosopedia
October 4: Hanadi Jaradat, 27 year old apprentice lawyer and Palestinian suicide-bomber kills herself and 19 others in Haifa.
October 7: Arnold Schwarzenegger elected governor of California, replacing Gray Davis, who is recalled by the voters.
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   (835 words)

  
 A Timeline of Oil and Violence - Afghanistan
Afghanistan's interim ruler Hamid Karzai and the Pakistan president agreed to revive plans (47a) for a trans-Afghanistan pipeline..
Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai to hold talks with his Pakistani and Turkmenistan counterparts (47c) regarding a pipeline from Turkmenistan, through Afghanistan, and through Pakistan to the coast.
The annual US Government estimate for opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan was released Nov. 2004 (49): approximately 206,700 hectares of poppy were grown in 2004, representing a 239% increase in production over 2003 estimates.
www.ringnebula.com /Oil/Timeline.htm   (1675 words)

  
 Timeline Afghanistan
Plant remains at the foothill of the Hindu Kush mountains indicate, that North Afghanistan was one of the earliest places to domestic plants and animals.
The capital of Afghanistan was transferred from Kandahar to Kabul because of tribal opposition.
2001 Sep 9, In Afghanistan Ahmed Shah Masood (48), the opposition leader (Lion of Panjshir), was injured and a close aide killed from an explosion triggered by agents posing as journalists.
timelines.ws /countries/AFGHANISTAN.HTML   (14065 words)

  
 The Breadwinner
Men are forced to grow long beards, the national sport of Afghanistan is outlawed, all forms of political and religious dissent is absolutely forbidden, and so forth.
However, as of October 11, 2005, the Taliban still continue to launch attacks against their fellow Afghan citizens and against U.S. and U.K. forces.
In addition, Osama bin Laden still survives, and some people theorize he may still be hiding in the mountains of Afghanistan.
faculty.tamu-commerce.edu /kroggenkamp/AfghanistanTimeline.htm   (594 words)

  
 CBSNews.com
Soviet troops invade Afghanistan and 600,000 flee to Pakistan.
In 1984, 1986 and 1987, cross-border attacks between Afghanistan and refugee forces in Pakistan kill many refugees.
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.
www.cbsnews.com /htdocs/afghanistan/timeline.html   (236 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   (3821 words)

  
 October 2003 - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
Republic of Ireland: The Garda Síochána, the Irish police force, opens a criminal investigation following a hoax telephone call on 27 October from a woman claiming that she had abandoned her newborn baby in a derelict flat in Dublin.
Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The body of the Hamas militant killed in the attack on an Israeli military camp (that killed 3 Israeli soldiers) returns to his family in their refugee camp.
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, visiting Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, is whisked out of Kabul owing to reports of a rocket attack.
www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=6658   (6192 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
It argues that `post-conflict' peace and reconstruction in Afghanistan may depend on a dramatic expansion of institutionalized economic interdependence: this will not necessarily require obeisance to standard international policy paradigms and it will have to draw on existing patterns of interdependence, even though many of these are rooted in brutally exploitative war economy conditions.
Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S.; Establishment of a workable government; Election of the Loya Jirga, the country's legislative body.
As the war in Iraq seems to be ending, the war in Afghanistan seems to be horribly alive, particularly in the south of the country.
www.au.af.mil /au/aul/bibs/afgha03/afgha03.htm   (3898 words)

  
 Learn more about Timeline of Afghan history in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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www.onlineencyclopedia.org /t/ti/timeline_of_afghan_history.html   (103 words)

  
 CNN.com - Afghanistan wakes after night of intense bombings - October 7, 2001
CNN's Kamal Hyder, reporting from inside Afghanistan, said four waves of U.S.-British attacks struck at the heart of the southern city of Kandahar.
Northern Alliance commanders, citing the opposition group's intelligence sources inside Taliban-controlled areas of Afghanistan, said U.S. and British forces struck at least seven locations, including the airports in Kandahar and Kabul and the Taliban Ministry of Defense in Kabul.
Pentagon officials said Sunday the strikes in Afghanistan could continue for several days as the United States and Britain try to soften Taliban air defenses and damage key military infrastructure.
archives.cnn.com /2001/US/10/07/gen.america.under.attack   (1099 words)

  
 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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   (17715 words)

  
 Flashpoints USA . America at War . In Focus . Post-9/11 Timeline | PBS
The Justice Department publishes an interim regulation allowing non-citizens suspected of terrorism to be detained without charge for 48 hours or "an additional reasonable period of time" in the event of an "emergency or other extraordinary circumstance." The new rule is used to hold hundreds indefinitely until the USA Patriot Act passes in October.
One thousand soldiers from the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division are sent to the Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan, which borders Afghanistan.
Speaking at a Thanksgiving dinner for troops and their families at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, President Bush states, "Afghanistan is just the beginning on the war against terror.
www.pbs.org /flashpointsusa/20040629/infocus/topic_01/timeline_sep2001.html   (878 words)

  
 USAID Afghanistan: Chronology of Major Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
New USAID Mission Director for Afghanistan Sworn In (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)

  
 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.
Pakistani officials use DNA testing to confirm that Ahmed Said Khadr was killed in the raid the past October.
The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, which provokes the declaration of a holy war.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/khadr/timeline.html   (1438 words)

  
 Afghanistan, 2003 Timeline
Delegates from across Afghanistan have begun a meeting of grand assembly, to ratify a new constitution
Pakistan's home minister was saying that two men were arrested near the borders of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran
Local villagers have contradicted reports that the target of an air strike that killed 9 children also died in the raid
www.mapreport.com /years/2003/countries/afghanistan.html   (490 words)

  
 World, October 2003 Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Electorate recalls Democratic Gov. and choose actor-turned-politician as the state's next governor
Shirin Ebadi has won the 2003 Peace Prize for her focus on the struggle to improve the status of women and children
The space capsule carrying Yang Liwei touched made a 21-hour odyssey that took him around the world 14 times
www.mapreport.com /years/2003/october.html   (354 words)

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