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	Gardez, Afghanistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gardez is the capital of Paktia Province, Afghanistan.
		The city is not far from the Tora Bora region of caves and tunnels, where it was believed that Osama bin Laden hid.
		Gardez is west of Khost and 60 miles south of Kabul.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gardez (114 words)

	DefendAmerica News - Afghanistan Update
		The cache was hidden in a school along the road between Khowst and Gardez and contained 40, 80 mm rockets, many mortar shells, anti-tank ammunition and fuses.
		Kandahar province, Afghanistan -- Task Force Devil Civil Affairs personnel and a 151st Romanian team conducted a village patrol to the medical clinics of Rawanay and Mandi Sar, south of Kandahar in Kandahar province yesterday.
		Joint civilian and military use of the Kandahar airport is a priority in the effort to assist in the economic growth and stability of Afghanistan.
	www.defendamerica.mil /afghanistan/update/jul2003/au071803.html (4009 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of cities in Afghanistan
		Jalalabad (Persian: Jalālābād) is the capital of Nangarhar province in Afghanistan, 150 km east of Kabul near the Khyber Pass.
		Bamiyan province is one of the thirty_four provinces of Afghanistan.
		Kandahar Kandahār (or Qandahār) is a city in southern Afghanistan, the capital of Kandahar province.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-cities-in-Afghanistan (406 words)

	Afghanistan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Afghanistan is bordered by Iran on the west, by Pakistan on the east and south, and by Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan on the north; a narrow strip, the Vakhan (Wakhan), extends in the northeast along Pakistan to the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China.
		In great-power relations, Afghanistan was neutral until the late 1970s, receiving aid from both the United States and the Soviet Union.
		The country was devastated by the Afghanistan War (1979–89), which took an enormous human and economic toll.
	www.bartleby.com /65/af/Afghanis.html (2936 words)

	Gardez
		Gardez is a town of 70,000 inhabitants along a river in a mountain valley at an elevation of about 7,600 feet (nearly a half-mile higher than Denver, Colo.).
		Gardez is the center of Paktia province, an area the size of South Carolina.
		To continue assisting the citizens of Gardez in rebuilding their community, US forces constantly meet with local officials and dignitaries to ensure progress is being maintained.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/afghanistan/gardez.htm (2085 words)

	Afghan, US Attack Repulsed By Up To 5,000 al-Qaeda/Taliban Fighters
		The battle, the heaviest reported fighting in Afghanistan for weeks, was taking place in Paktia province where the Pentagon says intelligence reports show pockets of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network and followers of deposed Taliban leader Mullah Omar are seeking to regroup.
		Gardez, about 150 km (95 miles) south of Kabul towards the Pakistan border, is seen as a likely hideout for the two leaders.
		Gardez was the scene of deadly clashes between rival militias last month.
	www.rense.com /general20/pu.htm (655 words)

	History of Afghanistan - The History Beat
		Afghanistan's history, internal political development, foreign relations, and very existence as an independent state have largely been determined by its geographic location at the crossroads of Central, West, and South Asia.
		It is estimated that in Afghanistan there are 1.5 million suffering from immediate starvation, as well as 7.5 million suffering as a result of the country's dire situation - the combination of civil war, drought-related famine, and, to a large extent, the Taliban's oppressive regime.
		Afghanistan is a mountainous country, although there are plains in the north and southwest.
	history.searchbeat.com /afghanistan.htm (4392 words)

	CNN.com - Karzai meeting targets Pashtun rivalries - February 3, 2002
		GARDEZ, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The special envoy of Afghanistan's interim leader, Hamid Karzai, is holding meetings in eastern Afghanistan amid an uneasy calm between two rival Pashtun forces in the provincial capital of Gardez.
		Gardez was the scene of fighting last week between shura forces and a rival Pashtun militia headed by Bacha Khan.
		The fighting between shura forces and Khan's fighters erupted against a backdrop of Pashtun tribes trying to regroup throughout Afghanistan -- and the interim administration's attempts to foster civil stability to avoid the type of tribal infighting that led to the ousted Taliban's rise to power.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/02/03/afghan.gardez (410 words)

	DefenseLINK News: The Alamo in Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Unless the world was ready for Afghanistan to slip back into anarchy, something had to be done to improve the lives of average Afghans.
		The population is overwhelmingly Pashtun, and Gardez was a stronghold of the Taliban.
		Soldiers stand in the shade of the entrance to the Provincial Reconstruction Team compound in Gardez, Afghanistan, July 30, during the visit by Joint Chiefs chairman Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers.
	www.defenselink.mil /news/Jul2003/n07312003_200307313.html (1337 words)

	Feuding among warlords turns eastern Afghanistan into war zone, residents angry at U.S. and interim regime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bitter feuding among warlords turned eastern Afghanistan into a war zone this weekend, leaving as many as 25 people dead and furious residents accusing the interim regime of being weak, and the United States of being uncaring.
		On Sunday, residents in Gardez began to emerge from shuttered dwellings to bury their dead killed in the previous day's rocket assault.
		The U.S. military spokesman said Sunday that the U.S. forces deployed in Afghanistan are quietly doing what they can to halt factional fighting in the east of the country, but negotiating an end to local feuds is not their primary objective.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/04/28/international1649EDT0531.DTL&type=printable (930 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Courting Afghanistan Brick by Brick
		GARDEZ, Afghanistan -- While U.S. combat troops were storming mountain caves and scouring ghost villages in search of enemy fighters, another group of American soldiers plodded away all year at a less glamorous mission in violence-plagued Paktia province.
		A coalition of private aid agencies operating in Afghanistan criticized the expansion of the U.S. military civic action program this past week, calling it "risky and premature" and suggesting that uniformed troops taking a major role in providing aid might undermine their efforts to bring about stability and development.
		In Gardez last week, a few residents voiced skepticism on other grounds, acknowledging that U.S. military teams have helped secure and rebuild the city, but worrying that if their presence becomes wider and more entrenched, it could turn into a full-fledged occupation like the Soviet army takeover of Afghanistan in the 1980s.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A24768-2002Dec7?language=printer (1476 words)

	Afghan warlords battle for control of Paktia province
		GARDEZ, Afghanistan: Heavy fighting erupted here on Wednesday as rival warlords battled for control of eastern Paktia province, fuelling fears that Afghanistan could descend into factional chaos.
		US warplanes were seen circling over Gardez as mortar and small arms fire rocked the rural town of some 50,000 people, and residents fled on foot and in trucks.
		Whereas a member of the Gardez tribal council claimed about 300 fighters -- both Taliban and members of al-Qaeda -- are poised to launch an assault to the west of Gardez, in the Shahi Koot region of Zormat district.
	www.rawa.org /gardez.htm (698 words)

	CNN.com - Afghan leader offers to help resolve Pashtun conflict - February 2, 2002
		Gardez remained calm for a second day Saturday, following two days of fighting between shura, or council, forces and a rival Pashtun force headed by Bacha Khan, who has been appointed acting governor of Paktia province by the Afghanistan interim administration.
		The shura, a council representing all of the clans and tribes of Paktia province, remained in control in Gardez.
		Gailani, who is in the region in an attempt to establish peace between the rival Pashtun factions, requested the militia commanders in Gardez release the elderly and injured in their custody as a gesture of goodwill.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/02/02/afghanistan.gardez (422 words)

	PRTs: The Public Face Of Special Ops
		GARDEZ, Afghanistan — In a war fought mostly by secret warriors from Special Forces units, Provincial Reconstruction Teams are the friendly public face of the U.S. Special Operations Command in Afghanistan.
		An expanding effort to bring stability to Afghanistan's wild, impoverished regions is one piece of a two-part strategy to defeat the bad guys, said reconstruction team soldiers, officers and civilians in remote Gardez.
		Gardez was the first of six PRTs, said Col. David Bennett, Civil Affairs spokesman in Afghanistan.
	www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,FL_ops_021204,00.html (1028 words)

	Latest News - U.S. Probing Alleged Abuse Of Afghans
		The case of the "Gardez 7," as CID officials dubbed it, was filed away as unfounded because investigators had no records, victims' names or witnesses, said Christopher E. Coffey, an Army detective based at Bagram air base in Afghanistan.
		Gardez police held the men for a month and a half with as many as 13 other inmates in a "secret detention room" built for five prisoners, according to the attorney general's report.
		Gardez Police Chief Mujahid told military prosecutors that when the men arrived at his jail from the American compound, many had injuries that appeared to be the result of severe impacts.
	www.november.org /stayinfo/breaking2/AfghanAbuse.html (3876 words)

	Operation Blind Fury. War in Afghanistan. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A convoy of soldiers was ambushed in eastern Afghanistan by unidentified gunmen hitting one in upper left thigh.
		The soldier was riding in a convoy of four pickup trucks near the town of Gardez on Wednesday afternoon when as many as six gunmen in civilian clothes shot at them with Kalashnikov rifles, spokesman Col. Roger King said.
		Late Thursday, he was flown to U.S. military headquarters in Afghanistan at Bagram, north of the capital of Kabul, where he was conscious and in stable condition, King said.
	www.aeronautics.ru /archive/vif2_project/news_0109.htm (465 words)

	CNN.com - Fresh fighting in eastern Afghanistan - January 30, 2002
		GARDEZ, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Details are emerging about fresh fighting in eastern Afghanistan, an area torn by factional rivalries among its ethnic Pashtuns.
		A delegate to the Bonn summit, Syed Hamid Gailani heads a convoy that's been touring the region to build support for the new Afghanistan and to unite Pashtuns who are split among three factions.
		The fighting on Wednesday began as the "peace convoy" of Afghan leaders led by Gailani was holding meetings in Gardez.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/01/30/ret.afghan.convoy (314 words)

	DefendAmerica News - Article
		GARDEZ, Afghanistan - Making a difference in Afghanistan requires teamwork, diligence, commitment and a strong desire to be part of the community.
		The soldiers of the Gardez Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) understand those values and are implementing them during their rebuilding and stabilizing efforts.
		Working side by side with local nationals is the only way to nurse Afghanistan back to health and soldiers from Civil Affairs (CA) Teams 12 and 13 and the 10th Mountain Division have embraced the concept knowing that rebuilding the area is a task that can only be completed through joint effort.
	www.defendamerica.mil /articles/sep2003/a091503b.html (611 words)

	UMCOR Assists Afghan Families Suffering Harsh Winter (print-friendly)
		As one of the more fortunate landless returnees, she was given the opportunity to purchase a small plot of land just outside Gardez, the capital of Paktya.
		This material has been adapted from an article, "UMCOR Winterization Program in Afghanistan" by Michel Kersten, an UMCOR program manager whose office is in Gardez, Afghanistan.
		A total of 714 families in Paktya province in eastern Afghanistan near the border of Pakistan received winterization packages that included a stove, plastic sheeting, 3 blankets, a lantern, cash to purchase wood, and several UMCOR emergency kits (health, sewing and layette).
	gbgm-umc.org /umcor/05/afghanistanwintert.cfm (685 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Asia / U.S. general sees Taliban in Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		GARDEZ, Afghanistan -- Taliban fighters, paid and trained by al-Qaida, are pouring into Afghanistan from Pakistan, the top American commander in Afghanistan said Sunday.
		John Vines said the Taliban were trying to regroup and regain control of the country they ruled until ousted by the United States in late 2001.
		Three American soldiers have died in Afghanistan in the past month, two in a gunbattle with Taliban militants near the border with Pakistan.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2003/09/07/us_general_sees_taliban_in_afghanistan (697 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| South Asia \| Eyewitness: Guarding Gardez
		It is a conflict which the world should be watching closely as a litmus test for Afghanistan and its hopes of future stability.
		On Saturday, while the rockets were falling on Gardez, the US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced plans to help fund and train just such a force for Afghanistan.
		The solution, according both to Mr Wardak and everyone else that I spoke to in Gardez, is to bring in foreign peacekeepers.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1957000/1957952.stm (627 words)

	USATODAY.com - Factional fighting threatens Afghan peace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		GARDEZ, Afghanistan (AP) — Heavy explosions, mortar and machine gun fire rocked an eastern Afghan town, killing at least 43 people and wounding dozens more, in heavy factional fighting Thursday that highlighted the fragility of Afghanistan's newfound peace.
		Mortars fired by Khan's forces from two commanding hills southwest of Gardez landed in the center of the dilapidated town.
		Saifullah and Gardez police chief Said Isaq said about 30 U.S. special forces troops were in an old fortress to the town's southwest but had told locals that they, too, would not intervene.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002/01/31/afghan-fighting.htm (871 words)

	CBS News \| Afghan Feuds Boil Over \| April 29, 2002 06:35:20
		By contrast, in what was perceived as a powerful show of unity in Kabul, interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai and Defense Minister Mohammad Fahim stood side-by-side at a military parade on Sunday marking the 10th anniversary of the end of communist rule.
		The parade, also a first showcase for Afghanistan's military since ousting the fundamentalist Taliban last December, almost turned into a pageant of the country's recent decades of war.
		Karzai is from the majority Pashtun ethnic group while Fahim is an ethnic Tajik and the two were rivals to become Afghanistan's interim leader when the Taliban were driven from power.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/04/29/attack/main507464.shtml (1227 words)

	HARIAN UMUM SUARA MERDEKA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gardez, Afghanistan (Agencies): The United States was on Thursday pouring hundreds of reinforcements into eastern Afghanistan after saying 100 more al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters had been eliminated in the bloody campaign.
		The freshly resupplied U.S., Afghan and allied forces continued to push south from the village of Sirkankel, 15 kilometers (nine and a half miles) south of Gardez, into one of the militant group's last remaining strongholds in Afghanistan, said U.S. Army Maj. Bryan Hilferty.
		Army Gen. Tommy Franks, commander of the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan, said hundreds more troops and attack helicopters were being sent to the region to deal with the stiff al-Qaeda resistance.
	www.suaramerdeka.com /harian/0203/09/eng3.htm (663 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Afghanistan success still precarious
		GARDEZ, Afghanistan -- Three years after the US invasion, Paktia Province and the rest of southeastern Afghanistan illustrate the mixed results of an intervention that ousted the Taliban regime but has yet to capture Osama bin Laden or forge a stable, centralized state to keep out terrorists for good.
		In the simplest sense, the Bush administration has achieved the goal behind the US bombing that began here on Oct. 7, 2001: Afghanistan is no longer a sanctuary where anti-US militants could operate with impunity.
		He recalled that the Taliban came to power in 1996 because of years of civil conflict wreaked by militia commanders whom the United States supported in the campaign to drive out the Soviet Union.
	www.boston.com /news/world/articles/2004/10/07/afghanistan_success_still_precarious (492 words)

	Afghan warlords say they'll hold fire; U.S. joins mediation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With factional fighting threatening government efforts to assert control throughout the country, the delegation hopes to avert more tribal clashes in Gardez, a town of about 40,000 people that is the capital of Paktia, a strategic border province.
		B-52 bombers circled over the Gardez region on Sunday for what residents said was the first time in two weeks.
		In northern Afghanistan, two main militias worked Sunday to finalize an accord aimed at keeping clashes from spreading into the region's largest city, a mediator said Sunday.
	www.bouldernews.com /news/terror/feb02/04aafgh.html (987 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation > America's War on Terror -- Afghan warlords battle for strategic town, ...
		GARDEZ, Afghanistan – Terrified families huddled in basements or fled on foot Thursday as rival Afghan warlords waged artillery battles for control of this strategic town, killing at least 43 people and injuring dozens of others.
		There were scenes of suffering at Gardez's rudimentary hospital, where mortar rounds fell close enough to shake the walls.
		Gardez sits on barren high plains ringed by steep mountains, and for many frightened residents, there were few places to hide.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/nation/terror/20020131-1125-afghanistan.html (939 words)

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