Word: kabul
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Instead of working for the good of Afghanistan’s people, the U.S has only supported the increasing powers of the warlords. Moreover, it has not aggressively expanded the International Security Forces as promised. While 4,500 troops are stationed within Kabul, an expansion outside the capital could neutralize violent threats and protect the rights of women to vocalize their concerns...
...allowing his wife to run. Accusations of blasphemy against Islamic law drove Former Vice President Sima Samar from her post as women’s affairs minister. She now heads a newly created human rights commission but recently needed barbed wire protection to be installed around her home in Kabul...
These political developments only reinforce Taliban-style sexual policing that still exists in Afghanistan. Women in Kabul and surrounding provinces continue to wear burqas out of fear of reprisals. In recent weeks, four girls’ schools were attacked with explosives, five have been burned down and one was closed down. These were direct actions undertaken by fundamentalists who not only verbally and physically abused women for violating Islamic law but had also spent weeks beforehand passing out pamphlets that threatened parents with violence if they sent their daughters to school...
...French source, "they don't give a s___ about Iraq, and they openly disdain Saddam as corrupt. But anything that happens in Iraq will just be used as further justification for terrorism." But if American soldiers are welcomed as warmly in Baghdad as they were by the people of Kabul, the effect of a war on the recruitment of terrorists might be different...
...problems confronting the city of 20 million, the expense seems warranted. Ineffective laws, an often corrupt police force and widespread poverty have given the city the second highest crime rate in Latin America after Bogota, Colombia. Rudy, after you clean up Mexico City, there's a pesky problem in Kabul...