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	European influence in Afghanistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		First was the Russian influence at the Iranian court, which prompted the Russians to support Iran in its attempt to take Herat, historically the western gateway to Afghanistan and northern India.
		The clearest manifestation that Abdur Rahman's had established control in Afghanistan was the peaceful successor of his eldest son, Habibullah Khan, to the throne on his father's death in October 1901.
		Consequently, the influence of religious leaders as well as that of Mahmoud Beg Tarzi, a cousin of the king, increased during his reign.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_influence_in_Afghanistan (4070 words)

	Encyclopedia: European-influence-in-Afghanistan
		In the early decades of the nineteenth century, it became clear to the British that the major threat to their interests in India would not come from the fragmented Afghan empire, the Iranians, or the French, but from the Russians, who had already begun a steady advance southward from the Caucasus.
		Bamiyan province is one of the thirty_four provinces of Afghanistan.
		Jalalabad (Persian: Jalālābād) is the capital of Nangarhar province in Afghanistan, 150 km east of Kabul near the Khyber Pass.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/European_influence_in_Afghanistan (6905 words)

	European influence in Afghanistan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		First was the Russian influence at the Iranian court, which prompted the Russians to support Iran in its attempt to take (A city in northwestern Afghanistan on the site of several ancient cities) Herat, historically the western gateway to Afghanistan and northern India.
		The clearest manifestation that Abdur Rahman's had established control in Afghanistan was the peaceful successor of his eldest son, (Click link for more info and facts about Habibullah Khan) Habibullah Khan, to the throne on his father's death in October 1901.
		The boundary with (A theocratic islamic republic in the Middle East in western Asia; Iran was the core of the ancient empire that was known as Persia until 1935; rich in oil; involved in state-sponsored terrorism) Iran was firmly delineated in 1904, replacing the ambiguous line made by a British commission in 1872.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/E/Eu/European_influence_in_Afghanistan.htm (4057 words)

	European influence in Afghanistan - Encyclopedia, History and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The British became the major power in the Indian sub-continent after the Treaty of Paris (1763) and had begun to show interest in Afghanistan as early as their 1809 treaty with Shah Shuja.
		The Great Game set in motion the confrontation of the British and Russian empires — whose spheres of influence moved steadily closer to one another until they met in Afghanistan.
		The line laid the foundation, not for peace between the border regions, but for heated disagreement between the governments of Afghanistan and British India, and later, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Afghan_state (4056 words)

	History of Afghanistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An often unacknowledged event that nevertheless played an important role in Afghanistan's history (and in the politics of Afghanistan's neighbors and the entire region up to the present) was the rise in the tenth century of a strong Sunni dynasty--the Ghaznavids.
		Afganistan became a clash of civilizations for a century, when Tang China (ruling from Korea to Afghanistan), Tibet and Arabia (ruling from Morocco to Afghanistan) fought for control in Central Asia.
		Afghanistan was divided in three parts in the 16th, 17th and early 18th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Afghanistan (2680 words)

	History of Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Many of these establishments formed terrorist groups in an attempted to reverse the modernisation of Afghanistan, usually resorting to violent means and sabotage of the country's industry and infrastructure.
		The government of Afghanistan responded to terrorist attacks with heavy handed intervention from the army.
		The Taliban took control of 90% of the country by 1998, limiting the opposition largely to a small largely Tajik corner in the northeast and the Panjshir valley.
	www.encyclopedia-1.com /h/hi/history_of_afghanistan.html (2290 words)

	Articles - Durrani Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		They were the first Pashtun rulers of Afghanistan, from the Sadozai line of the Abdali or Durrani group of clans.
		Even before the death of the Turko-Iranian ruler Nadir Shah, tribes in the Hindu Kush had been growing stronger and were beginning to take advantage of the waning power of their distant rulers.
		Afghanistan ceased to exist as a single nation, disintegrating for a brief time into a fragmented collection of small units.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Durrani_Empire (1731 words)

	While the Great Game may have confronted Afghanistan with the necessity of becoming a nation-state, it did not ...
		Although often laid at the door of colonialism, Afghanistan's extant difficulties with state-building and modernization in fact have their roots in geopolitical idiosyncrasies entrenched long before the Great Game.
		While the Great Game may have confronted Afghanistan with the necessity of becoming a nation-state, it did not fundamentally alter the rules of the game Afghanistan had played for centuries.
		Increasingly, the aid Afghanistan accepted was either in the form of military material and training, or was spent on arming the force the leaders used to keep their tribal subjects in check.
	www.wm.edu /so/monitor/spring2002/keister.htm (2255 words)

	Encyclopedia of Afghanistan ... AfghanCity Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The country was devastated by the Afghanistan War (1979–89), which took an enormous human and economic toll.
		In November, the United Nations imposed economic sanctions on Afghanistan; this action and the 1998 U.S. missile attacks were related to the Afghani refusal to turn over bin Laden.
		Assisted by U.S. air strikes, opposition forces ousted Taliban and Al Qaeda forces from Afghanistan's major urban areas in November and December, often aided by the defection of forces allied with the Taliban.
	www.afghancity.net /afghanistan.html (2998 words)

	Arms and influence: Afghanistan
		Rumsfeld himself declared the siege a success--in fact, he considered the entire Afghanistan campaign a vindication of his theories about a light, mobile US force, supported by local allies, as the new model for this type of operation.
		Afghanistan, therefore, became the justification for a smaller force than the US could have deployed in Iraq, with now-tragic consequences.
		Like the European balance of power during the 18th and 19th centuries, "the rules of the game" of clan politics are the one universal that all groups share.
	armsandinfluence.typepad.com /armsandinfluence/afghanistan (3727 words)

	Military skills key to European influence in U.S. - The Washington Times: World Briefings - July 18, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The report highlights the need for Europeans to retain the ability to work alongside U.S. military forces, which are becoming increasingly sophisticated technologically, because Europeans are not expected to undertake major military operations at the higher end of the conflict spectrum without the United States.
		European forces have more extensive experience than American forces in those tasks as a result of European colonialism and their recent nation-building efforts in the Balkans and elsewhere.
		European countries are developing military forces designed to enable them to keep up with the U.S. "revolution in military affairs," which uses digital technology to improve the battlefield assessments of military commanders.
	www.washtimes.com /world/20040717-111104-4142r.htm (1922 words)

	Great Game biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The British curbed their ambitions in Afghanistan following the humiliating retreat from Kabul and after the Indian Mutiny of 1857 successive British governments saw Afghanistan as a buffer state.
		They left Abdur Rahman Khan on the throne; he agreed to let the British maintain Afghanistan's foreign policy whilst he was left to consolidate his position on the throne.
		The Russians accepted that the politics of Afghanistan was solely under British control as long as the British guaranteed not to change the regime.
	the-great-game.biography.ms (878 words)

	HISTORY OF AFGHANISTAN
		In 2001, as part of a drive against relics of Afghanistan's pre-Islamic past, the Taliban destroyed two large statues of the Buddha outside of the city of Bamiyan and announced destruction of all pre-Islamic statues in Afghanistan, including the remaining holdings of the Kabul Museum.
		The US required the assistance of countries around Afghanistan to provide a route for the attack, but criticism increased as various mosques, aid agencies, hospitals, and other civilian buildings were damaged by US bombs.
		Current problems that exist for the administration include controlling bands of bandits roaming Afghanistan's rural sector, removing the debris (and in particular, unmapped buried land mines) from decades of civil war from the countryside, and rebuilding the Afghan economy.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/HISTORY+OF+AFGHANISTAN (3390 words)

	Detailed Country Profile: Afghanistan
		Southern European women hugely outnumber their menfolk amongst the unemployed.
		Afghanistan's recent history is a story of war and civil unrest.
		The Soviet Union invaded in 1979, but was forced to withdraw 10 years later by anti-Communist mujahidin forces.
	www.nationmaster.com /country/af (319 words)

	PolitInfo.com - Strong US Influence in Afghanistan Draws Criticism - Aug 24, 2004 Islamabad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As Afghanistan seeks to rebuild its place in the world after decades of war, foreign powers are seeking to gain influence inside the country.
		The U.S. presence in Afghanistan is everywhere: building roads, setting up an Internet network, training the new army or providing security for the coming elections.
		The United States is not alone in trying to influence Afghanistan's future.
	www.politinfo.com /articles/article_2004_08_24_4001.html (723 words)

	Military skills key to European influence in US
		For example, military experts often note that Europeans collectively spend about two-thirds as much as the United States on defense but have only about one-tenth of the U.S. capacity for force projection and only half of the latter forces can be deployed rapidly.
		Keohane explained in "A European Way of War," however, such concerns are largely misplaced: "The reality is the EU will not have its own army for decades to come -- if ever, nor will NATO's status as Europe's pre-eminent defense organization change any time soon.
		They also pointed out that NATO, rather than the EU, is currently providing the main impetus for reform of European military forces -- primarily through the NATO Response Force and the NATO command in Norfolk -- that promote trans-Atlantic military transformation.
	www.cer.org.uk /articles/washington_times_review_18july04.html (1854 words)

	Pravda.RU Yuri Razgulaev: Ethnic separatism strengthens Russian influence in Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		While Afghanistan’s “legitimate” leader Barhunaddin Rabbani, as well as Russia, are ready to completely exclude the “revolutionary students” from the new Afghanistan’s political life.
		So, there are only two variants: either partition of Afghanistan, or, as well-known Russian politologist Vladlen Sirotkin suggests, UN guardianship, entrance of peace-keeping forces.
		Opposition General Homayun Baha declares that if the Soviet Union did not conquer Afghanistan because it was not interested, and claims that the Communists were developing the country well before the Mujaheddin began the process which culminated in the Taleban.
	english.pravda.ru /main/2001/11/01/19794.html (2843 words)

	List Of Leaders Of Afghanistan Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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	popularityguide.com /encyclopedia/List_of_leaders_of_Afghanistan (731 words)

	RightOnAmerica :: The European Influence
		trial, said that “Europeans don’t care about the personal lives of pop stars like Americans do.” Apparently this is true even when part of the personal life of a pop star involves sleeping with young boys (at the very least) and even more serious child abuse (at the most).
		Because Europeans are exporting their secularist, non-evaluative brand of socialistic “we are all the same so don’t judge me even if I am evil” to
		The jury didn’t even find Michael Jackson guilty of giving alcoholic beverages to minors (for illegitimate purposes) even when it was evident that he had.
	righton.blogharbor.com /blog/_archives/2005/6/13/935443.html (707 words)

	Weapons of Mass Discussion: BBC: European "Influence" is Positive; France is Good
		BBC: European "Influence" is Positive; France is Good
		Although 55% of US citizens felt greater European influence would be a bad thing, 34% of Americans felt the opposite - a statistic which the report's authors claim reflects deep political divisions within the US.
		What it does reflect, is a deep resentment of European perfidy.
	massdiscussion.blogspot.com /2005/04/bbc-european-influence-is-positive.html (762 words)

	history of afghanistan information
		- HISTORY: For Ages, Afghanistan Is Not Easily Conquered, New York Times, 9/18/2001
		- Arnold Charles Fletcher, Afghanistan: Highway of Conquest
		- Vartan Gregorian, The Emergence of Modern Afghanistan: Politics of Reform and Modernization, 1840-1946
	www.global-terror.com /afghanistan/history-of-afghanistan.htm (2368 words)

	British Indian Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		During the days of British rule, the Indian Army proved a very useful adjunct to British forces not only in India but also in other places, particularly during World Wars I and II.
		see also The Great Game European influence in Afghanistan
		In World War I the Indian Army saw extensive service including:
	www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/British_Indian_Army (504 words)

	Articles - Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Another split, engineered by Yunus Khales, resulted in a second group using the name Hizb-e-Islami--a group that was somewhat more moderate than Hikmatyar's.
		Among the three groups in Peshawar, the most important was the Jebh-e-Nejat-e-Milli led by Sibghatullah Mojadeddi.
		Soviet Air Power: Tactics and Weapons Used in Afghanistan by Lieutenant Colonel Denny R. Nelson
	www.gaple.com /articles/Democratic_Republic_of_Afghanistan (8136 words)

	History Of Afghanistan articles and news from Start Learning Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		History Of Afghanistan articles and news from Start Learning Now
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	www.startlearningnow.com /History%20of%20Afghanistan.htm (137 words)

	Afghan Wars - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		A series of three wars between Britain and the Afghans in the 19th century and early 20th century was formerly called the Afghan Wars but is now referred to as the Anglo-Afghan wars perhaps to distinguish them from the civil strife in the 1980s.
		For more information on the Anglo-Afghan Wars, and the major conflicts in Afghanistan since then, see the following:
		Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (from 1979 to 1989)
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Afghan_Wars (109 words)

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