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	Kabul - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kabul (34°32′ N 69°10′ E, Kâb'l, in Persian کابل) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan with a population variously estimated at 2 to 4 million.
		Kabul's population is multicultural and multi-ethnic, reflecting the diversity of Afghanistan, with Pashtuns, Tajiks, and Hazaras all comprising the bulk of the city's population.
		Kabul was captured by the Taliban in September, 1996, publicly lynching ex-president Najibullah, repressing the city's dangerously literate populace and effectively moving the capital to Kandahar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kabul (1419 words)

	Kabul: Capital of Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kabul is on the Kabul River, situated at an elevation of about 1800 m (about 5900 ft) making it one of the highest capital cities in the World.
		An ancient community, Kabul rose to prominence in 1504, when it was made the capital of the Moghul Empire by the conqueror Babur.
		Kabul was occupied by troops of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1979; the USSR withdrew from Afghanistan on Feb. 15, 1989.
	www.afghan-network.net /Culture/kabul.html (432 words)

	AllRefer.com - Kabul (Afghanistan Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		It succeeded Kandahar as Afghanistan's capital in 1773.
		Kabul became the Soviet command center, but was little damaged by the ten-year conflict.
		In spring of 1992 the government of Mohammad Najibullah collapsed, and Kabul fell to guerrilla armies.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Kabul.html (493 words)

	Afghanistan (08/05)
		Afghanistan is endowed with natural resources, including extensive deposits of natural gas, petroleum, coal, copper, chromite, talc, barites, sulfur, lead, zinc, iron ore, salt, and precious and semiprecious stones.
		Afghanistan is one of the most heavily mined countries in the world; mine-related injuries number up to 100 per month, and an estimated 200,000 Afghans have been disabled by landmine/unexploded ordinances (UXO) accidents.
		Afghanistan's relations with Tajikistan have been complicated by political upheaval and civil war in Tajikistan, which spurred some 100,000 Tajiks to seek refuge in Afghanistan in late 1992 and early 1993.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5380.htm (6852 words)

	A Glimpse of Kabul, Afghanistan - ADB.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Although individuals from ADB had previously visited Afghanistan, this was the first full-fledged team to be sent to Kabul.
		Kabul, capital of Afghanistan since 1776, is a fast-growing city where tall modern buildings nuzzle against bustling bazaars and wide avenues fill with brilliant flowing turbans, gaily-striped chapans, mini-skirted schoolgirls, and a multitude of handsome faces and streams of whizzing traffic.
		Travelers have written glowingly of Kabul for centuries and modern visitors continue to be captivated by its lively charm.
	www.adb.org /Afghanistan/Travelogue (524 words)

	Kabul Afghanistan at Best Iran Travel.com
		The capital of Afghanistan is situated in a fertile valley at an altitude of 1800 meters (6,000ft.) and is located on the Kabul River about 80 km (50 mi) east of the Pakistan border.
		Kabul has long been of strategic importance, due to its location in a basin between the Hindu Kush and other high mountains.
		The Mahipar waterfall on the Kabul river is breathtaking.
	www.bestirantravel.com /sights/afghanistan/kabul.html (649 words)

	USATODAY.com - Conflicting reports emerge about missing Afghan jet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — As temperatures plunged overnight, fears grew Friday that no one would be found alive after an Afghan passenger jet carrying 104 people, including three Americans, disappeared from radar screens during a snowstorm near the mountain-ringed Afghan capital.
		Afghanistan's NATO peacekeeping force sent helicopters and ground teams to scour an area southeast of the city, where officials said the plane was last seen Thursday.
		Kabul is surrounded by towering, frigid peaks, a hazard that usually forces commercial aircraft to be grounded during bad weather.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-02-03-afghan-jet_x.htm (970 words)

	International Security Assistance Force article - International Security Assistance Force peacekeeping Kabul ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Authorized by the United Nations Security Council in December 2001, the ISAF was charged with securing Kabul and its nearby Bagram air base from Taliban and al Qaida elements and factional warlords, so as to allow for the establishment and security of the Afghan Transitional Administration headed by Hamid Karzai.
		The responsibility for security throughout the whole of Afghanistan was to be given to the newly-constituted Afghan National Army.
		On June 7, 2003 in Kabul, a taxi packed with explosives rammed a bus carrying German ISAF personnel, killing four soldiers and wounding 29 others; one Afghan bystander was killed and 10 Afghan bystanders were wounded.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/International_Security_Assistance_Force (764 words)

	Kabul Caravan: Online Travel Guide to Afghanistan
		Travel in Afghanistan is not easy and subject to frequent restrictions, so we also hope to provide a context for a visit by providing information on safe travel, as well as development issues and details on the best news sources for the country.
		Afghanistan remains a potentially dangerous country to visit, and not a destination for the casual tourist.
		Kabul Caravan is written by Paul Clammer, who first visited Afghanistan during the Taliban period.
	www.kabulcaravan.com (309 words)

	Kabul on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		AFGHANISTAN: KABUL December 2001 A burqua clad woman and her child.
		AFGHANISTAN: KABUL December 2001 Burqua dressed women and young girls in the street.
		AFGHANISTAN: KABUL December 2001 A woman amputated from the left leg after a mine explosion is fitted an artificial limb at the Red Cross Hospital.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/Kabul.asp (975 words)

	Afghanistan by Frederick Engels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The principal cities of Afghanistan are Kabul, the capital, Ghuznee, Peshawer, and Kandahar.
		The geographical position of Afghanistan, and the peculiar character of the people, invest the country with a political importance that can scarcely be over-estimated in the affairs of Central Asia.
		Ghuznee, the impregnable stronghold of Afghanistan, was taken, July 22, a deserter having brought information that the Kabul gate was the only one which had not been walled up; it was accordingly blown down, and the place was then stormed.
	marxists.org /archive/marx/works/1857/afghanistan (3945 words)

	CNN.com - Afghan TV: Kabul explosions kill 26 - September 5, 2002
		KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- At least 26 people were killed and 150 injured by two explosions in the center of Afghanistan's capital city, Afghan television reported.
		The impact of the blasts in Kabul is evident in this gallery of scenes from the aftermath of the explosions.
		Several of the casualties were taken to an Italian hospital in the city, but that hospital was reported to have been overwhelmed and was sending the injured to other facilities.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/09/05/afghan.blast (384 words)

	Afghan News Network {Latest News about Afghanistan} First in Afghan News Worldwide!
		KABUL (AP) - A team of top Afghan officials was in the country's south Sunday to investigate charges that U.S. soldiers burned the remains of Taliban fighters they had killed and then used the scene for propaganda purposes.
		KABUL (AFP) - An earthquake has shaken eastern Afghanistan near the border of quake-hit Pakistan, with initial reports saying at least five people were killed and six hurt, the defence ministry said.
		KABUL (The New York Times) - More than a month after the elections, nearly all provisional results have finally been released for Afghanistan's Parliament and provincial assemblies, cementing a victory for Islamic conservatives and the jihad fighters involved in the wars of the past two decades.
	www.afghannews.net (670 words)

	Post-Taliban mosques sit empty / Afghans rethink Islam after heavy-handed enforcement ends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Afghanistan became Muslim 1,400 years ago and stayed faithful to the religion despite the temporary spread of Buddhism in the 900s, the invasion of the pagan troops of Genghis Khan in the 13th century and the atheistic propaganda that marked the Soviet occupation in the 1980s.
		The tasks at hand include reconstructing the destroyed agricultural sector, building schools in a country where more than 70 percent of the population is illiterate, feeding the one-quarter of the nation's 26 million people who are on the verge of starvation, and training doctors.
		Khalil said that neither he nor his parents are religious, but that both he and his father went to the mosque every day when the Taliban was in power, fearing that they would otherwise lose their house and possibly go to prison.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/03/11/MN237426.DTL (1097 words)

	Afghanistan
		Afghanistan, approximately the size of Texas, is bordered on the north by Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan, on the extreme northeast by China, on the east and south by Pakistan, and by Iran on the west.
		In the 19th century, Afghanistan became a battleground in the rivalry between imperial Britain and czarist Russia for control of Central Asia.
		A history of women in Afghanistan: lessons learnt for the future or yesterdays and tomorrow: women in Afghanistan.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107264.html (1552 words)

	WTC KABUL - AFGHANISTAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The main purpose for development of the WTC Kabul is to provide centralized accommodation of activities and services devoted to the promotion and furthering of world trade and international business in Afghanistan.
		WTC Kabul provides facilities, education and support services to empower Afghan businesses and facilitates the development and promotion of international business, tourism and trade.
		WTC Kabul also communicates to the world that Afghanistan is an active participant in the international community.
	wtck.org /about.php (619 words)

	Mythology's Myth*ing Links = Eurasia / Central Asia: Afghanistan
		Afghanistan poses an enormous challenge to an international community distracted by other priorities and lacking effective policy options for containing the dangerous spillover of Afghanistan's political, military, and social upheaval into neighboring states....
		Afghanistan a few times has been at the edge of war with Pakistan (former province of Afghanistan) because of this agreement.
		Afghanistan's only remaining walled town, it is dominated by a 45 metre high citadel built in the 13th century.
	www.mythinglinks.org /eurasia~Afghanistan.html (7040 words)

	PARSA, a Non-Government Organization, is working in Kabul, Afghanistan on income-generation projects
		PARSA is a small, non-government organization (NGO) working directly with needy people of Kabul, Afghanistan, particularly widows, who are on the streets begging, and those who have "fallen through the cracks" of the survey nets of the big NGOs.
		This has given Mary a dual purpose in her efforts to establish a base of operations in the very needy areas in the center of Afghanistan.
		So for the present she is actively commuting between bustling and smog-ridden Kabul and the clean, but thin (at over 8000' elevation) air of Panjao.
	www.parsa-afghanistan.org (507 words)

	WHO tackles the parasitic disease Leishmaniasis in Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A rapid intervention by the World Health Organization and its partners, the Massoud Foundation and HealthNet International, in Kabul, Afghanistan, made possible by a donation from the Belgian government, should dramatically reduce the incidence of leishmaniasis in less than two years.
		Kabul is the largest centre of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the world, with an estimated 67,500 cases.
		Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a disabling disease transmitted by the bite of the sand fly.
	www.news-medical.net /?id=3962 (770 words)

	Afghan Office of U.S. Firm Hit by Bomb (washingtonpost.com)
		KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 29 -- A powerful car bomb exploded at dusk Sunday outside the downtown office of a U.S. security contracting firm and an adjacent building where Afghan police are trained.
		The U.S. ambassador, Zalmay Khalilzad, said in a statement that the bombing appeared to have been aimed at the security firm but that it would not set back efforts to build a secure environment in the country, which was devastated by 23 years of conflict.
		Kabul's police chief, Gen. Baba Jan, told reporters near the blast site that some of the dead and injured people had been taken to hospitals and that some were foreigners, but he did not give exact numbers or nationalities.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A44361-2004Aug29.html (712 words)

	UNESCO and Afghanistan: UNESCO
		President Hamid Karzai, of Afghanistan and President Horst Köhler of Germany today addressed UNESCO’s General Conference, during a special session to mark the 60th anniversary of the Organization, which was dedicated to human dignity.
		Paris — The First Plenary Session of the International Coordination Committee (ICC) for the Safeguarding of Afghanistan’s Cultural Heritage, to be held at UNESCO from June 16 to 18, will bring together some 40 experts in the presence of representatives of the Member States that have contributed to these safeguarding activities.
		Opening the “National Conference to Promote Sports for All in Afghanistan” (Kabul, Afghanistan, 3 May 2003) organized by the Afghan National Olympic Committee (ANOC) jointly with UNESCO, President Hamid Karzai committed his Government to the revitalization of sports, based on principles of equal access, of tolerance and nation-building.
	portal.unesco.org /en/ev.php-URL_ID=1259&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (1289 words)

	Afghanistan Investors Kabul - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rumsfeld announced in Kabul that the U.S. had "ended major combat activity" in Afghanistan and a period...
		Kabul, three-quarters of which was funded by Turkish investors.
		KABUL, Afghanistan, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- On behalf of a consortium of Afghan and American investors, ING...
	investing.fmqg.com /index.php?k=afghanistan-investors-kabul (1219 words)

	Welcome to the official website of the Embassy of Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Afghanistan and Australia today, 17 May 2005, officially launched the new Afghan visa system and signed two separate arrangements on the provision of a much needed housing accommodation project in Kabul and on the encouragement of safe and dignified return of unsuccessful Afghan asylum seekers in Nauru and in immigration detention in Australia.
		Afghanistan is due to send a medical team headed by the former Minister for Public Health Dr. Sohaila Seddiq and a planeload of medical supplies and equipment to the tsunami hit countries.
		The purpose of this visit is to assess the progress made in Afghanistan's economic reconstruction, the stabilisation of security across the country, and the progress made in the war against terrorism.
	www.afghanembassy.net /n_news.html (4513 words)

	Afghanistan Peace Organization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		No, people of Afghanistan are Afghans, consisting of many different ethnicities, but we are united as Afghans.
		Islam is the dominant religion in Afghanistan, but there are also Hindu, Jewish and Christian people living in Afghanistan.
		Hazaras: They live in the central mountainous areas of Afghanistan and are known to be very talented and hardworking group of people.
	www.afghanistan.org (309 words)

	Kabul Afghanistan
		The PDF files that are posted here tell the story of their trip and the wonderful people they met in Kabul.
		Since returning to the Helena, Montana, Elinor and Carolyn have shared the stories and pictures of their experiences at Aschiana and in Kabul with many church groups, women's groups, and schools.
		If you are interested in having them speak to your group, please contact Elinor at elinorfromkabul@hotmail.com or call her at 406.431.8996.
	www.ewewe.com (271 words)

	Afghan Warrior: Afghanistan's first blog
		I am a 20 year old male from Afghanistan and I have been working with the US Army in Kabul, Afghanistan as an interpreter for the last 2 years.
		Kabul is different to the surrounding areas, but Kabul is the future in a prospering area.
		We are all very glad to see a blog from Afghanistan and news from one someone there to provide us with look into your lives and to share your thoughts and everyday news.
	afghanwarrior.blogspot.com /2005/03/afghanistans-first-blog.html (6660 words)

	a priori History Search - Afghanistan Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Afghanistan was part of different groups and empires from 1500 B.C.E to around 700 B.C.E when the first Arabics arrived and the area was ruled by many small, mostly Muslim, kingdoms.
		After World War I Afghanistan declared its freedom from Britain and the two nations fought to a standstill, but the British allowed the country to conduct its own foreign affairs.
		After WWII Afghanistan slowly began to modernize, but The government was overthrown in 1973 by the military and 1979 Russia invaded the country.
	history.searchking.com /featured/Afghanistan.shtml (592 words)

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