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| Robert Fisk: Glimmers of hope and decency during a bad week for Arabs in America |
| By Robert Fisk- -the Independent |
This week was a bad week to be an Arab in America. It wasn't, frankly, a great week to be an English journalist either, with a message to a university audience on the eve of 11 September about the failings and injustice of US policy in the Middle East – especially when ...
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| Australia increases contribution to U.N. fund to clear land mines in Afghanistan |
| By the Associated Press |
CANBERRA, Australia - Australia increased its contribution Friday to a United Nations fund to help rid Afghanistan of land mines.
Parliamentary secretary Chris Gallus said the government would commit another 1.5 million Australian dollars (dlrs 825,000) to the U.N....
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| U.N. Official: Afghans Need Money |
| By harry Dunphey- -the Associated Press |
WASHINGTON –– The international community needs to provide an additional $300 million to help reconstruction in Afghanistan, particularly to help arriving refugees as winter sets in, a senior official in the U.N. Assistance Mission in the south Asian nation said Friday....
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| U.S. Pilots Face Criminal Charges |
| by Robert Burns- -the Associated Press |
WASHINGTON –– The Air Force said Friday it recommended that two F-16 pilots face criminal charges for their role in a mistaken bombing last April that killed four Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan.
Both men are members of the Illinois Air National Guard and have been ...
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| Afghan Factory Endures During War |
| By Christopher Torchia- -the Associated Press |
KODE BARQ, Afghanistan –– Late last year, workers at Afghanistan's only fertilizer factory peered through dust-coated windows as U.S. warplanes bombed a fortress where Taliban and al-Qaida captives staged an uprising.
The bombing was just a few miles away, and the wo...
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| UN checks Afghan environment |
| By the BBC |
United Nations scientists are examining the effects of almost 30 years of war on Afghanistan's environment.
Five teams of foreign and Afghan experts are collecting samples and examining sites around the country.
Assessing and repairing the country's environmen...
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| House Panel Approves Afghan Aid |
| By Ken Guggenheim- -the Associated Press |
WASHINGTON –– Afghanistan would get more money to rebuild and Palestinian aid would be tied to democratic reforms under a foreign aid bill approved by a House panel Thursday.
The $16.55 billion foreign operations bill approved by the House Appropriations Committee re...
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| Japan, Saudis to fund road in Afghanistan |
| By the Associated Press |
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - President George W. Bush said today that the United States, Japan and Saudi Arabia will give war-torn Afghanistan $180 million US to build a 1,000-kilometre-long road.
It will connect Kabul to Kandahar and then to Herat near the border with I...
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| Afghan refugees return home |
| By the BBC |
Afghan refugees are leaving Pakistan in their thousands every week. More than one and a half million have headed back to Afghanistan this year. Susannah Price asks why they are now returning home.
News of the attacks on 11 September spread quickly among the two and a ...
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| Fifteen killed in battle between rival Afghan factions |
| By James Palmer- - the Associated Press |
At least 15 soldiers and civilians died and more than 50 were wounded in a battle between rival factions in eastern Afghanistan yesterday.
Troops loyal to a renegade warlord clashed with government forces in Khost after a local radio station announced that the warlor...
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| Despite government warnings, farmers in northern Afghanistan say they'll harvest cannabis crop |
| By Christopher Torchia- -the Associated Press |
KHANA ABAD, Afghanistan - Obeying a Taliban edict, many cannabis cultivators stopped growing the plant used to make hashish when the hard-line Islamic militia was in power. Now some of those farmers are back in business.
They're so open about it that fields of sturd...
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| Afghan Police Arrest 2 With Ammo |
| Byt he Associated Press |
KABUL, Afghanistan –– Police arrested two men Wednesday who they said were trying to smuggle more than 22,000 rounds of ammunition into Afghanistan's capital, state television reported.
The two were stopped when their bus was searched on the outskirts of Kabul. The b...
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| Gunman Fires on U.S. Base in Afghanistan |
| By the Reuters News Agency |
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A gunman fired at a U.S. base in Afghanistan on Wednesday, just hours before ceremonies to commemorate the attacks on the United States on September 11 last year.
Lieutenant Tina Kroske, a spokeswoman at Bagram Air Base north ...
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| News Analysis |
| The article below does not necessarily represent the views of Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan. We publish these articles to create awareness among our readers about the analyses and perception of the issues in Afghanistan and the Muslim world by the international observers and analysts.
Be very afraid - Bush Productions is preparing to go into action By Robert Fisk, The Independent I have always been a sucker for wide-screen epics. Ever since my Dad took me to see Quo Vadis – which ends with centurion Robert Taylor heading off to his execution with his bride on his arm – I've been on the movie roller-coaster. My dad didn't make a great distinction between the big pictures and B-movies; he managed to squeeze Hercules Unchained in between Ben Hur and Spartacus. But the extraordinary suspension of disbelief provided by the cinema carried me right through to Titanic, Pearl Har...
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