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	Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series / Afghanistan
		Afghanistan resembles an irregularly shaped hanging leaf with the Wakhan Corridor and the Pamir Knot as its stem in the northeast.
		Afghanistan is completely landlocked, bordered by Iran to the west (925 kilometers), by the Central Asian States of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan to the north and northeast (2,380 kilometers), by China at the easternmost top of the Wakhan Corridor (96 kilometers), and by Pakistan to the east and south (2,432 kilometers).
		Afghanistan's rugged central mountainous core of approximately 50,000 square kilometers is known as the Hazarajat, Land of the Hazara.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/afghanistan/afghanistan.html (21323 words)

	Afghanistan - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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.
		The country was devastated by the Afghanistan War (1979-89), which took an enormous human and economic toll.
		A history of women in Afghanistan: lessons learnt for the future or yesterdays and tomorrow: women in Afghanistan.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-afghanis.html (3601 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia â“ Free Online Encyclopedia for Reference, Research, Facts
		Afghanistan is bordered by Iran on the west, by Pakistan on the east and south, and by Turkmenistan,...
		Balkh town, N Afghanistan, on a dried-up tributary of the Amu Darya River.
		It is held sacred as the alleged burial place of Ali, son-in-law and cousin of Muhammad; a noted mosque of Ali is in the city.
	www.encyclopedia.com /category/Places/Asia/afggeo.html (694 words)

	Lean Left: Losing Afghanistan
		Southern Afghanistan in particular has been wracked by several attacks in the last few weeks by suspected Taliban fighters, including the murder of a Red Cross worker Ricardo Munguia and an ambush on a U.S. military convoy that killed two American servicemen.
		Places like Afghanistan are where the war on terrorism is won or lost.
		Unless places like Afghanistan are stabilized and democratized, there will always be a large pool of desperate angry young men ready to strike out in any way they can.
	www.leanleft.com /archives/001182.html (1198 words)

	Reflections on Afghanistan
		Yes, for some of you its hard to believe that Kabul, Afghanistan could rate so high up in the tourism landscape, but if travel is a way to push oneself out of our daily routines and see how others live, places like Afghanistan are the best places to travel.
		Afghanistan is full of contrasts: In a country where signs of women’s lower status can be seen everywhere, the laws of the country and of Islam are very favorable to women.
		But on the other side of that, you have to have judges that defend those laws and you have to have women who are educated enough to even know that they are protected under the law.
	www.theculturedtraveler.com /Archives/AUG2006/Print/Lead_Story.htm (1255 words)

	Remarks by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice And Afghan President Hamid Karzai
		So yes, Afghanistan has determined enemies and they are ruthless, but they will not succeed in undermining or in rolling back the democratic gains of the Afghan people.
		So his optimism or my optimism about what Afghanistan has achieved is not a matter of trying to ignore the problems and the challenges, but simply to say that in a country that five years ago was still under the role of the Taliban, the progress has been extraordinary in this country.
		SECRETARY RICE: We have exactly the same vision of Afghanistan, which is why we are here in partnership with Afghanistan: that it will be a strong, democratic, prosperous country that can reclaim its rightful place in the international system and that will be a vital ally in the war on terror.
	afghanistan.usembassy.gov /remarks_062806.html (4121 words)

	Afghanistan News : Indybay
		In Northern Afghanistan, farmers are selling off their animals and trekking to other areas due to the worst drought in five years.
		Half of Afghanistan's GDP is probably from the drug trade and some of the recent clashes may be in reaction to poppy eradication campaigns, which are deeply unpopular with farmers, who are seldom properly compensated.
		Afghanistan has become the world's largest opium producer (producing 90% of the heroin sold in Britain) and its likely the spayings were part of a US attempt to destroy opium fields.
	www.indybay.org /international/afghanistan (3745 words)

	Ethnologue report for Afghanistan
		Radio Afghanistan broadcasts are promoting a standardized pronunciation of the literary language which is based on the old dictional tradition of the country, with its archaic phonetic characteristics.
		Central Afghanistan mountains between Kabul and Herat (Hazarajat), in Kabul, in area between Maimana and Sari-Pul, in settlements in north Afghanistan and from immediately south of the IKoh i Baba mountain range almost all the way to Mazar e Sharif, and in the area of Qunduz, in Baluchistan and near Quetta in Pakistan.
		Northeastern Afghanistan in the Munjan and Mamalgha Valleys.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Afghanistan (1375 words)

	The Embassy of Afghanistan, Washington, DC
		Afghanistan’s location at the crossroads of great civilizations in history has created a stunning diversity in food, arts, languages, and traditions.
		Qargha is another nice place for a sightseeing which is a 35 minute drive from center of the city.
		Since 80% of Afghanistan’s economy is agrarian, rural life is still the center of the country’s socio-economic activities.
	www.embassyofafghanistan.org /travel/travel2.html (1019 words)

	Afghanistan: Scotsman's Trek Explores 'Places In Between'
		I think one of the great casualties of these kinds of conflicts -- in the case of Afghanistan it's 25 years of war -- is to a county's cultural identity, and to its history.
		And one of the big mistakes that foreigners have made intervening in places like Afghanistan, or even Iraq, is to imagine that you can generalize about communities in remote areas who almost by definition because of the lack of communication and contact with the rest of the world are very, very isolated.
		The beauty of the landscape, the astonishing complexity of the surviving pieces of historical culture -- such as the Minaret of Jam, or the domes in Chist-e Sharif -- the challenge, the physical challenge of crossing a landscape of that sort.
	www.payvand.com /news/06/aug/1217.html (1745 words)

	Using technology to find al-Qaeda's caves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In Afghanistan, the cave hunting has begun, with "bunker-buster" bombs targeting mountain hideouts and special operations troops investigating abandoned tunnels.
		Afghanistan's caves have served as hideouts for guerrilla forces for centuries.
		But Witten says the most valuable cave-finding means in Afghanistan will be people, civilians or former mujahedin, with knowledge of the caves used for hiding from Soviet troops during the 1980s and subsequent tunnel construction.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2001/11/27/tech-cave-hunting.htm (916 words)

	Afghanistan Interesting Facts - Places - Things
		Afghanistan's recent history is a story of war and civil unrest.
		Afghanistan's economic outlook has improved significantly since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001 because of the infusion of over $2 billion in international assistance, recovery of the agricultural sector, and the reestablishment of market institutions.
		This is usually an insert, stamp or sticker which is placed in your passport and the duration of its validity varies from place to place.
	www.travel-island.com /interesting.places/afghanistan.html (1106 words)

	General Resources on Terrorism and Afghanistan
		The UN evacuated all of its international staff from Afghanistan due to fears of possible retaliation against Afghanistan, in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.
		Ansary asserts that bombing Afghanistan in retaliation for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States is counterproductive.
		The council is urging the U.S. government to cease the bombing of Afghanistan and to use a legal, nonmilitary response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States.
	www.loc.gov /rr/international/hispanic/terrorism/afghan.html (4209 words)

	NPR : Restoring Poetry to Afghanistan
		Steve Coll is the author of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001.
		Afghanistan remains mostly illiterate, overwhelmingly so outside the cities.
		The importance of shared poetic legacy is evident in day-to-day conversations across Afghanistan.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4464341 (604 words)

	WorkingForChange-Save Afghanistan
		So before bin Laden was captured, before the Taliban was decimated, before the remote mountainous regions of Afghanistan were secure, civilian leadership at the Pentagon ordered the military to turn its attention and personnel to Iraq.
		He noted that al-Qaida forces are using techniques in Afghanistan perfected in Iraq, including roadside explosives and suicide bombers.
		Indeed, there are places in Afghanistan where Karzai fears to tread, so he usually confines himself to the nation's capital, Kabul.
	www.workingforchange.com /article.cfm?ItemID=21777 (724 words)

	Join AFSC in Supporting Afghan Women : AFSC
		Women in Afghanistan are bearing the brunt of their society’s turmoil.
		After the Taliban was ousted, women and girls in Afghanistan began to hope that they might be able to enjoy greater freedom and new opportunities.
		In many places in Afghanistan, women’s basic rights are as threatened now as they have ever been.
	afsc.org /middleeast/afghanistan.htm (238 words)

	Afghanistan: In Nangarhar, the Opium Mafia Reigns Supreme
		The anti-drug repression units, with a ridiculously low level of staffing, are impotent there in the face of an opium mafia in bed with the highest officials, beginning with the governor, even though he was named and sustained by the Kabul central government.
		As in many other places in Afghanistan, after the fall of the Taliban at the end of 2001, the local war chiefs had official titles conferred on them by a weak central power.
		Afghanistan, which supplies 75% of the world's opium, has become a de facto narco-state, since, according to the IMF, that business represents half the Afghan Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
	www.truthout.org /docs_04/printer_101404H.shtml (917 words)

	NATO: A 21st Century Alliance That Is Delivering
		All of these places are places where NATO has deployed within the last 18 months.
		Today we are buying it because we need it for Afghanistan, and if we have it for Afghanistan, ladies and gentlemen, we will also have it for the EU missions of the future, for the UN missions of the future, for national needs and for coalition operations.
		That means in Afghanistan and elsewhere ensuring that when we agree to deploy troops, they are as flexible and open and caveat-free as possible so that we can help each other in extremis.
	www.state.gov /p/eur/rls/rm/75477.htm (2196 words)

	Shadowlands Haunted Places Index - Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Many of the places are patrolled by the authorities, trespassers will be prosecuted.
		The "Ail", feminine looking entities with floating hair, pale eyes resembling milky white orbs and glacier pale skin are said to inhabit the region whenever the suns rises so high, that you cannot see your own shadow, or at twilight.
		Others said they also saw the entities of the victims that were tortured to death by the Taliban or heard screaming and crying in pain, when there was no one there.
	www.theshadowlands.net /places/afghanistan.htm (201 words)

	Fire Base Shkin / Fire Base Checo
		It is located in one of the most dangerous places in Afghanistan in Paktika province.
		There is no doubt that all soldiers serving in Afghanistan face the dangers of combat on a daily basis but there seemed to be a distinction for those who serve at Shkin.
		As of early 2005 the Coalition was using 14 airfields in Afghanistan.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/fb_shkin.htm (939 words)

	Amazon.com: The Places In Between: Books: Rory Stewart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		We never really find out why Stewart decided to walk across Afghanistan only a few months after the Taliban were deposed, but what emerges from the last leg of his two-year journey across Asia is a lesson in good travel writing.
		By turns harrowing and meditative, Stewart's trek through Afghanistan in the footsteps of the 15th-century emperor Babur is edifying at every step, grounded by his knowledge of local history, politics and dialects.
		In what appeared to be an extremely dangerous place to visit, Stewart managed to educate his readers on a country devastated by war and poverty.
	www.amazon.com /Places-Between-Rory-Stewart/dp/0156031566 (2547 words)

	The Online NewsHour: Afghanistan and the War on Terror \| PBS
		British troops, which make up the bulk of NATO forces, were forced to retreat in a fierce battle Tuesday against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan.
		Barnett Rubin of New York University and Ali Jalali of the National Defense University discuss the state of Afghanistan.
		Afghan leaders are battling a growing opium trade, a largely fruitless fight due in part to many farmers' dependence on income from poppy harvests, a crop they say brings in more money than any other.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/indepth_coverage/asia/afghanistan (200 words)

	Afghanistan Photo Gallery by Robert Lankenau at pbase.com
		Here photos of different places in Afghanistan, mostly the Western region, where I worked for a while with an international organization on reintegrating former combatants into civilian life.
		Afghanistan is by far the most amazing country I've been to.
		If you compair this city with the other places in Afghanistan, then you see that Herat is the ONLY CITY in the country.
	www.pbase.com /rlankenau/afghanistan (297 words)

	05/01/01 -- Afghan forests ravaged by illegal trade
		For the illegal timber trade that ends up in Pakistan, the starting point is Afghanistan's northeastern province of Kunar, which shares a 200-kilometer border with this South Asian country.
		With no single authority in place, the forests are practically free for the taking by those who want to make money out of trees.
		The last time estimates were made on Afghanistan's forest cover was in 1989, when it was believed to be around 2.6 percent of the land area.
	forests.org /archive/asia/asiatime.htm (984 words)

	Don't Hobble NATO, US Tells Allies
		He complained that so-called national caveats -- restrictions that governments place on the use of their forces in NATO missions -- are so numerous it takes 17 pages to list them all.
		With NATO expanding its peacekeeping operations in Afghanistan next year, the issue of what restrictions might be placed on their use has taken on greater prominence.
		NATO forces are slated to move into the volatile southern regions of Afghanistan by mid 2006, where the risk of attack from Taliban insurgents is high.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/europe-05t.html (793 words)

	USATODAY.com - Bin Laden's hiding places shrink (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Meanwhile, with the number of al-Qa'eda hiding places in Afghanistan continuing to shrink, the Navy was stepping up efforts to prevent bin Laden from escaping by sea, a defense official said on condition of anonymity Friday.
		One example, he said, is a group of Taliban near the northern city of Baghlan still negotiating with opposition forces over a surrender.
		There also are areas where neither opposition forces nor American ones are operating, a vacuum that allows adversaries to roam as well as to move in and out of the country.
	www.usatoday.com /news/sept11/2001/12/08/hiding-places-shrink.htm (704 words)

	AFGHAN ELECTIONS: Women Get to Sing and Want a Place in Mosques
		Also in a sign that things are improving for women was the lifting of a ban on female singers appearing on state television.
		Among the complaints being investigated by the United Nations are the apparent failure of indelible ink that was supposed to stain voters' fingers to prevent multiple votes, as well as ballot-stuffing and irregular opening hours for polling booths.
		According to Karzai, the real winners in the Afghanistan presidential elections were the Afghan people, particularly women who were empowered through the ballot.
	www.ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=26063 (1064 words)

	Images of Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Today, even the most remote places in Afghanistan have become household names: Kandahar, Mazar-I-Sharif, Kunduz, Jalalabad.
		The Afghanistan we know today is a nation laid waste by more than 20 years of war and discord.
		What we see in these images is not just an Afghanistan at peace, but a people and a country at peace with itself.
	www.imagesofafghanistan.com /photographers_comments.htm (593 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Afghanistan
		An unstable Afghanistan represents easy pickings for drug lords who would use the country as a safe haven for the production of heroin, which wreaks its own destruction on the streets of our country.
		Reconstruction is reducing poverty; millions of people are now able to vote; women are enjoying greater rights and economic opportunities than could have been imagined under the Taliban regime; and Afghan children are now in school studying the same things Canadian kids are learning back home.
		These are important victories for the people of Afghanistan, and they represent things worth standing up for.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/afghanistan/pmspeech.html (758 words)

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