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	29 DEC 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		CHAGHCHARAN, Afghanistan -- With machine guns rocking in their turrets, a convoy of Special Forces soldiers plowed into this mountain town in pursuit of enemy fighters one cold winter afternoon.
		Because no U.S. forces had been to the region, the team was ordered to report on the presence of armed militiaman, their loyalties and their weapons, and to divine the intentions of warlords and commanders who ostensibly backed the government of President Hamid Karzai.
		In Chaghcharan, a trading center made up of flimsy huts and muddy streets, the men set up a safe house in a dilapidated former Taliban guesthouse near a dirt airstrip, where they had a clear field of fire out the front.
	www.goodfellas.org /LATIMES.htm (4461 words)

	Ghowr Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The remains of their capital Firuzkuh, including UNESCO World Heritage site the Minaret of Jam, are located in the province.
		On June 17, 2004, hundreds of troops of Abdul Salaam Khan, whom had rejected the Afghan government's plan to disarm regional militias, attacked Chaghcharan and took over the city in an afternoon-long siege.
		Khan's troops left Chaghcharan on June 23, a day ahead of the arrival of a Afghan National Army battalion, led by Lieutenant-General Aminullah Paktiyanai, arrived with the support of about twenty U.S. soldiers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ghowr_Province (257 words)

	t r u t h o u t - The Untold War, Chasing Phantoms Across Afghanistan
		CHAGHCHARAN, Afghanistan -- CHAGHCHARAN, Afghanistan -- With machine guns rocking in their turrets, a convoy of Special Forces soldiers plowed into this mountain town in pursuit of enemy fighters one cold winter afternoon.
		Because no U.S. forces had been to the region, the team was ordered to report on the presence of armed militiamen, their loyalties and their weapons, and to divine the intentions of warlords and commanders who ostensibly backed the government of President Hamid Karzai.
		As they rolled toward Chaghcharan, they were on a "special reconnaissance mission" with "direct action" potential.
	www.truthout.org /docs_02/12.31D.afgh.phantoms.htm (4505 words)

	Karzai sends army to northwest: Factional fighting -DAWN - International; 25 June, 2004
		CHAGHCHARAN, June 24: Some 600 Afghan soldiers were deployed on Thursday to halt factional violence in the country's northwest that has added to nation wide security fears as Afghanistan heads for landmark polls.
		Security in poverty-stricken Chaghcharan was back to normal on Thursday, but hundreds of militiamen, loyal to ousted militia commander Ahmad Khan, remained in neighbouring districts, according to Ghor governor Mohammad Ibrahim Malakzad.
		Tired of fighting and the rule of militia commanders sometimes involved in extortion, Chaghcharan residents offered a warm welcome to the troops when they appeared on the dusty roads of the town.
	www.dawn.com /2004/06/25/int1.htm (502 words)

	The Agonist \| Renegade Afghan overruns provincial capital
		The upheaval in Chaghcharan, capital of the central province of Ghor, presents a fresh crisis for President Hamid Karzai and his efforts to impose his authority in the provinces by disarming regional militias seen as a threat to September elections.
		Karzai was forced to fly in hundreds of troops from the still small army in response to the unrest in Faryab and earlier in Herat, drawing some U.S. complaints that resources were being diverted from the war on Islamic militants in the south and east.
		Chaghcharan, capital of the remote central province of Ghor, was taken over on Friday by forces of commander Abdul Salaam Khan, who has been resisting a central government drive to disarm factional militias ahead of elections due in September.
	www.agonist.org:81 /story/2004/6/18/13145/5370 (1587 words)

	The Agonist \| Which is it?
		A battalion of troops would be sent to Chaghcharan, capital of Ghor province, from the western city of Herat on Tuesday, said Defence Ministry spokesman General Zahir Azimy said.
		Chaghcharan, capital of the remote central province of Ghor, was seized on Friday by forces of commander Abdul Salaam Khan, who has resisted the government's drive for militias to disarm.
		Chaghcharan, capital of the remote central province of Ghor, was seized on Friday by forces of commander Abdul Salaam Khan, who have resisted the government's drive for militias to disarm.
	www.agonist.org /story/2004/6/20/205712/136 (1759 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » The ill confront misery of medical care in remote Ghor Province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Chaghcharan, Afghanistan; 8 August 2003 (RFE/RL) -- The mullahs of Afghanistan's remote Ghor Province are in despair.
		The wounds of burn victims are often badly infected by the time the patients reach the hospital, and changing their dressings is difficult for the male nurses, who have little formal training.
		A sense of the medical challenge faced at the Chaghcharan hospital comes with the arrival of Mehman Gul, a 15-year-old girl, carried by her father from a village 30 kilometers away.
	reliefweb.int /w/rwb.nsf/0/072874aa224a819dc1256d800056712a?OpenDocu... (1115 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> Spotlight -> War against Terror -> Taleban claims to have retaken Ghor from Oppn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Ghor is not a vital province in the battle for control of Afghanistan but it was the only major area the Opposition had taken from the Taleban since the US launched its assault on the regime on October 7.
		Opposition forces said they had taken Chaghcharan on October 11 but Taleban Education Minister Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi said on October 21 the regime's forces had regained control of the city.
		Chaghcharan lies on a road network linking some of the western provinces, but not the main east-west road which loops south through the Taleban heartland of Kandahar.
	newsarchives.indiainfo.com /spotlight/usstrikes/21ghor.html (272 words)

	[ www.azadiradio.org ]
		However, on 22 June Ahmad Jawed, secretary of the Afghan National Army's corps commander in Herat, announced that the deployment had been delayed at least until 23 June because of "technical and logistical reasons." Ghor Province is in a remote, mountainous part of central Afghanistan.
		To reach Chaghcharan, soldiers from the Afghan National Army plan to travel overland from Herat using a route that is one of the most neglected and dilapidated roads in the country.
		"Anis" in a commentary on 20 June wrote that the capture of Chaghcharan is "not the first time that commanders have destabilized different provinces of Afghanistan." However, it said, the "collapse of a province at the hands of one rebel commander is unprecedented since the establishment" of the Transitional Administration in late 2001.
	www.azadiradio.org /en/weeklyreport/2004/06/23.asp (2700 words)

	GN Online: Chasing the phantoms of war across Afghanistan
		With machine guns rocking in their turrets, a convoy of Special Forces soldiers ploughed into this mountain town of Chaghcharan in pursuit of enemy fighters one cold winter afternoon.
		As the long trip wore on, the crowds of curious men and boys waiting to greet the convoy grew larger.
		The men were heartened by the news that Cameron had suffered only bruised ribs and a bruised spleen.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=74226 (2076 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| No sign of Afghan reconciliation
		The tiny town of Chaghcharan, at the heart of vast, remote and unruly province, seems to symbolise the problems Afghan President Hamid Karzai is having in bringing into his fold men who've borne weapons for, in some cases, decades.
		On Thursday, representatives of the two main feuding factions sat side by side in the massive stone-built Governor's office in Chaghcharan.
		Chaghcharan itself - little more than a village of mud houses - is, on the surface, calm.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/3836883.stm (579 words)

	Ann Marlowe in the Middle East: The Trip to Ghor
		From Herat to Chaghcharan was 308 miles, and the Minar was about 70 miles from Chaghcharan.
		The American soldiers I spoke with at the PRT (Provincial Reconstruction Team) in Herat gave me a green light for security, but they cautioned that Chaghcharan was a 12-hour trip with good luck.
		At 10 o’clock we pulled into a mountain chaikhana and the driver said we were stopping for the night.
	laweekly.blogs.com /ann_marlowe_in_afghanista/2004/10/trip_to_ghor.html (1774 words)

	In Brief
		Chaghcharan, Western Highlands: with 30,000 Afghan families in Chaghcharan inaccessible because of insecurity on roads from Quetta, Pakistan and Herat, west Afghanistan, WFP is trucking food from Turkmenistan
		Vehicles with 1,800 tonnes of food on board have already started the nine-day trip across treacherous terrain to Chaghcharan; the Agency plans to preposition 6,000 tonnes of food aid in this area - enough to feed the targeted families for three months
		With snow likely to block roads into Chaghcharan in the coming weeks, WFP has a fleet of Swedish trucks on standby to travel into the Central Highlands.
	www.wfp.org /newsroom/in_brief/afghanistan26_11.html (485 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Press briefing by Ariane Quentier, senior public information officer, and by ...
		An agreement was reached with all parties on April 30 th which enabled Afghanistan 's New Beginning's Programme (ANBP) to begin the DDR process with the 41 st division.
		Heavy rainfall over the last few days, particularly in the central and central highlands regions, has led to a number of reported flood-incidents – although generally speaking flood damage seems to be relatively light and so far there are no reported casualties.
		Reports from Ghor province, indicate heavy rain on Monday damaged houses in several villages (Barakhana, Karistan, Jarmatu) in Chaghcharan district, and that floods damaged agricultural land in Taiwara, Tulak, and Shahrak districts.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/HMYT-6C4JP7?OpenDocument (3279 words)

	ONLINE - International News Network
		Short of scamming a ride on a U.N., NGO or military flight, the options for getting to Chaghcharan are limited to a 30-hour ride over brutal roads from Kabul, or an hour flight to Herat, followed by a 14-hour drive by 4x4.
		For a political newcomer, Emami grasps that all politics are local and such a road might not transform Chaghcharan into a thriving metropolis but would bring a whiff of hope to an otherwise forlorn place.
		The villagers have literally never seen a Western foreigner before, and every man in the village, it seems, gathers around me as Abdullah explains just how remote the town is. "When the Taliban came to Ghowr, we fought them in Chaghcharan, not here," he recalls.
	www.onlinenews.com.pk /details.php?id=87349 (2541 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> Spotlight -> War against Terror -> Afghan Oppn claims to have captured airport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Islamabad: Afghan Opposition forces on October 8 claimed they had captured an airport in the central provincial capital of Chaghcharan following overnight strikes by US and British forces around the country.
		The spokesman said allied forces had not targeted Chaghcharan during their overnight attacks against Taleban facilities around the country, including the capital Kabul and the militia's southern heartland of Kandahar.
		In northern Samangan province, Nadeem said the Opposition had launched ground assaults towards the capital, backed by tanks and artillery.
	newsarchives.indiainfo.com /spotlight/usstrikes/08afghanopp.html (303 words)

	Rocinante (No cynicism required): NATION-BUILDING, AMERICAN-STYLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Sources close to Abdol Salam quote him as saying today that the town of Chaghcharan was in his (Abdol Salam) control and the situation is calm.
		A prominent commander of Ghowr (Province) says his forces have lost control of Chaghcharan (capital of Ghowr) and have retreated to the north of the city.
		He said: "We have retreated from Chaghcharan and forces loyal to Commander Abdol Salam have captured the city.
	blog.zmag.org /rocinante/archives/000663.html (2033 words)

	BALTIC SOLDIERS IN AFGHANISTAN - Eurasia Daily Monitor
		Colonel Gintautas Zenkevicius, commander of the Lithuanian-led Provincial Reconstruction Team in Chaghcharan, Ghor province, western Afghanistan, announced on July 14 that the PRT has reached its initial operating capacity, as part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force.
		ISAF is currently extending its operations in western Afghanistan in order to provide security ahead of the parliamentary elections scheduled for September and to buttress stability afterward.
		The group's vehicles, rented in Afghanistan, tend to break down and are scheduled to be replaced shortly with Toyota Land Cruiser jeeps.
	www.jamestown.org /edm/article.php?article_id=2370022 (743 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		On 24 June a battalion of the Afghan National Army (ANA) arrived from the western Afghan province of Herat to Chaghcharan, the provincial capital of Ghor, immediately east of Herat, the Peshawar-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported.
		ANA General Aminullah Patiani put the number of troops sent to Ghor at 600, AFP reported on 24 June.
		The minister adviser for tribal affairs, Taj Mohammad Wardak, who was in Chaghcharan to try to solve the current problems there, said on 24 June that after three days of talks no compromise has been reached between warlords Abdul Salam and Ahmad Khan, Radio Afghanistan reported.
	www.rferl.org /newsline/2004/06/6-SWA/swa-250604.asp (1286 words)

	iqexpand.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		September 24 (Online): -- When I tell an Afghan friend about my plans to travel to the Ghowr province, he laughs and says he'd once seen the provincial capital, Chaghcharan, from a plane.
		When I tell an Afghan friend about my plans to travel to the Ghowr province, he laughs and says he'd once seen the provincial capital, Chaghcharan, from a plane.
		Ghowr province HEL Helmand province HER Herat province JOW Jowzjan province KAB Kabul province KAN Kandahar province KAP Kapisa province KNR: Konar province KDZ Kondoz province LAG Laghman province LOW Lowgar...
	ghowr_province.iqexpand.com (509 words)

	Pakistan News PakTribune.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		He said the troops will leave from Herat for Ghor tomorrow.
		Forces loyal to a local commander overran Chaghcharan, the capital of Ghor province, last week.
		The ousted military commander of Ghor today promised a "river of blood" unless his factional rivals and the provincial governor are kicked out of power.
	paktribune.com /news/index.php?id=68589 (968 words)

	LOAN: AFG 37136-01 \| Regional Airports Rehabilitation Project Phase I
		Bamyan, Chaghcharan, Faizabad, Farah, Maimana, Qalai-Naw, and Zaranj
		The objective of the Project is to assist the Government in the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the country by rehabilitating regional airports damaged during two decades of conflict and neglect.
		In order to maximize the benefits of the proposed assistance to Afghanistan, the Mission will seek ADB Management's and Board's consideration for relaxation of eligibility criteria for procurement of bitumen from non-member countries in the Gulf region.
	www.adb.org /Documents/Profiles/LOAN/37136013.ASP (382 words)

	Hills, Mountain And Town By Hari Rud River, Chaghcharan, Afghanistan Photographic Print by Stephane Victor at Art.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
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		Hills, Mountain And Town By Hari Rud River, Chaghcharan, Afghanistan
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	ecoi.net - Focus countries » Afghanistan » Security (Ghor)
		15.07.2004 - Standard (Österreich): Ghor: UNO removes staff from Chaghcharan for security reasons
		22.06.2004 - BBC News: An Afghan militia commander whose forces attacked Chaghcharan, capital of central Ghor province, is prepared to disarm and work with the government
		18.06.2004 - BBC News: Ghor province: 17 people injured as renegade militia commander takes control of Chaghcharan; the governor and residents fleeing amid heavy fighting
	www.ecoi.net /doc/en/AF/content/9/1288-15460 (289 words)

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