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...turnout and mounting accusations of election fraud, Afghan civilians are at a greater risk than ever of violent attacks, aid officials warn. "With the outcome of voting in Afghanistan unclear, the danger and insecurity facing millions of Afghans continues and in fact is higher now than ever," says Sam Zarifi, Amnesty International's Asia-Pacific director. "Antigovernment groups, including the Taliban, have demonstrated a systematic contempt for the safety of civilians by targeting Afghans who want to establish their future through ballots, not bullets." (See pictures of election day in Afghanistan...
...Zarifi, of Human Rights Watch in New York City, said NATO's military offensive, which has relied heavily on airpower due to a shortage of ground troops, had caused serious resentment among Afghans and been counterproductive. "The Soviets tried and failed to defeat Afghan guerrillas by using massive firepower, so we know clearly that that is not the way to win in Afghanistan," he said. "You have to win the populace over, not kill it." But NATO spokesman Mark Laity defended NATO's strategy in the south, saying it was important that NATO showed they could win militarily against...
...speech using loose definitions of virtue. Hard-liner clerics have been flexing their muscles in recent months. In March, an Afghan man charged with converting from Islam to Christianity was forced to flee the country after he faced a possible death penalty in the Afghan court system. Sam Zia Zarifi, director of research of the Asia division of New York-based Human Rights Watch, warns that the new vice and virtue cops could be "an instrument for politically oppressing critical voices and vulnerable groups under the guise of protecting poorly defined ideas of virtue." Zarifi said this would be especially...
...troops, will assume a greater role. But in places like Helmand province, where few Afghan or foreign troops were stationed, the main burden of fending off the insurgents has fallen to an Afghan police force that is poorly trained and often overmatched by the Taliban. Says Sam Zia-Zarifi, research director of Human Rights Watch's Asia Division: "They are totally ill prepared for what they are going to face...
...staff used the information Zia-Zarifi learned about the way the Daily was put together to create an accurate imitation, Rubins said. The reproductions were convincing enough to pass by at least one Yale Daily staffer undetected, Geier said...