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...Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the notorious Pashtun mujaheddin commander whose forces killed tens of thousands of people when they shelled Kabul in the early '90s during a power struggle with the forces that today comprise the Northern Alliance. TIME has learned that two days after the rocket attack on the peacekeepers, Afghani police raided a house in west Kabul and arrested eight men in possession of the same Chinese 107mm rockets. "They were Hekmatyar's men and their plan was to hit the main ISAF base and kill," says a senior police source. The arrests come two weeks after police detained more...
...burka, or more correctly the chadari, has long been traditional wear for Afghan women in the countryside and in conservative cities like Kandahar. In 1919, the first Afghani king encouraged women to shed the head to toe garb by revealing the face of his wife in public. Many women in the more liberal cities obliged and by the 1980s less than half the women in Kabul, the capital, wore the burka. Under the Taliban, women had little choice: wear the robe in public or face a vicious beating. But Afghan women say this was more inconvenience than hardship. "Under...
Goldfeld, along with two researchers from the non-profit American Refugee Committee (ARC), returned from a two-week mission to Afghanistan to treat tuberculosis among Afghani refugees last month...
...current military detention of Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners in a camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has raised a number of questions concerning the American government’s commitment to preserving the civil rights of Afghani detainees. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld made a less-than-reassuring statement that the Pentagon intends to “for the most part, treat them in a manner that is reasonably consistent with the Geneva conventions, to the extent they are appropriate.” More certainty than this is needed. The U.S. must commit to treating the prisoners of this...
...these detainees in the same manner as prisoners of war would not exempt them from being prosecuted for crimes committed outside the laws of war. Any Taliban fighters—who are even more clearly members of an organized fighting force—connected to atrocities perpetrated against the Afghani people or elsewhere should be tried for crimes against humanity by an international tribunal. Any al Qaeda prisoners—as well as al Qaeda members arrested anywhere in the world—who are connected to terrorist actions should be tried in civilian courts for their actions...