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- Annals of National Security: Escape and Evasion
- NEW YORKER article by Seymour Hersh (2 Nov 2001): In the wake of a near-disaster during the assault on Mullah Omar's complex, the Pentagon was rethinking future Special Forces operations inside Afghanistan. Delta Force, which prides itself on stealth, had been counterattacked by the Taliban, and some of the Americans had had to fight their way to safety.
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- Bombing with blindfolds on
- BOSTON GLOBE article by James Carrol (6 Nov 2001): Last week, B-52s were sent into action over Afghanistan, a first exercise in ''carpet bombing.'' The unleashing of this crude ghost plane, which drops imprecise ordnance from 40,000 feet, is a chilling harbinger.
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- Bombs leave children in shock, destroy radio
- DAWN article (27 Oct 2001): Windows shattered at Kabul children's hospital, babies cried and tiny wounded patients went into shock as bombs shook the Afghan capital, and the ruling Taliban's makeshift radio was shot off the air -- yet again.
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- British: Afghan War may take years
- AP article (27 Oct 2001): As British troops prepare for war inside Afghanistan, defense chiefs have warned they are committed to the anti-terror campaign for
the long haul'' - whether it takes months, years or decades. Adm. Sir Michael Boyce, Britain's chief of defense staff, was quoted in several Saturday newspapers as saying the Afghanistan campaign could last years, while the fight against international terrorism could take half a century.
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- How not to win a war
- GUARDIAN (UK) article (2 Nov 2001): Huge earth-shaking explosions, horizons filled with flame and smoke, doomsday clamour and an indiscriminate devastation: these are the familiar, unnerving symptoms of a bankrupt policy, of plans lacking or gone awry, of exponential escalation and dread futility.
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- How to lose a war
- FocusWeb.com article by Walden Bello (? Nov 2001): The bombing, which has taken the lives of many civilians, has worsened the US's strategic position in Southwest and South Asia by eroding the stability of the pro-US regimes in the Muslim world.
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- Making of a catastrophe: refugees flee from US bombs
- SOCIALIST WORKER article by Lalasz & Colson (2 Nov 2001): According to BBC News, 80 percent of the residents of Kandahar--a city of 400,000 that is considered a Taliban stronghold--have fled. The story is the same in other cities.
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- Red Cross angry over second bomb attack
- ANANAOVA article (27 Oct 2001): The international Red Cross says it deplores the US bombing for a second time of aid warehouses in Kabul. It says the buildings contained food and blankets for thousands of vulnerable people. It says each warehouse was marked clearly with a large red cross.
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- Revealed: How bungled US raid came close to disaster
- GUARDIAN (UK) article by Harting & Norton (6 Nov 2001): The Pentagon's only publicly announced commando raid on Taliban positions, hailed as a success and beamed around the world in video pictures hours later, actually went badly wrong, seriously injuring American soldiers, sources in Pakistan said yesterday.
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- Airstrikes on Kabul Intensify
- WASHINGTON POST article by William Branigin (28 Oct 2001): U.S. warplanes hit Taliban positions in Kabul and on the front lines north of the capital with the heaviest airstrikes yet in the three-week-old bombing campaign ... triggering bursts of Taliban mortar and rocket fire against the opposition Northern Alliance. At least one U.S. bomb went astray, hitting a village in Northern Alliance territory less than two miles from the front lines, according to photographers at the scene.
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- Kabul awakes to the aftermath of another night's heavy bombing
- GUARDIAN (UK) article by Kathy Gannon (27 Oct 2001): The city's Red Cross compound was hit for the second time this month during the daylight attacks, security guard Abdul Shakour said. Warehouses used to store humanitarian supplies were damaged and stocks of rice, beans, blankets and oil were set alight.
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- No evidence hospital hit: US
- News.com (Australia) AP article (23 Oct 2001): US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said previous claims by the Taliban had been false and told reporters "we have absolutely no evidence at all that would suggest that that allegation that you cited is correct. I'm sure it's not".
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- Operation Enduring Freedom: Why a Higher Rate of Civilian Casualties?
- This new report from the Project on Defense Alternatives estimates that there were 1000-1300 civilian deaths due to the bombing campaign associated with Operation Enduring Freedom. This toll is nearly twice that of the 1999 war in Serbia and Kosovo, although the number of bombs dropped in Afghanistan were only half as many. The study explains this finding in terms of tactical features of the campaign in Afghanistan, technical features of the new weapons used, and weapon mix.
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- Quetta hospitals near crisis point as war wounded arrive
- INTERNATIONAL NEWS (Pakistan) (27 Oct 2001): A steady flow of civilian casualties from US bombings over Afghanistan are arriving in Quetta's hospitals with medical authorities warning Friday of a potential crisis to come.
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- Rebels claim major gains across noth
- MSNBC article (10 Nov 2001): The U.S.-backed northern opposition alliance was claiming rapid victories across northern Afghanistan on Saturday, a day after the alliance took control of Mazar-e-Sharif. A leading opposition commander said alliance forces had moved into three more northern provinces on their way west to join a separate rebel movement whose leader was planning an offensive on a western town as soon as Sunday.
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- Red Cross depots in flames as US aircraft strike again
- MIAMI HERALD article by Mark Baker (27 Oct 2001): Three Red Cross warehouses in Kabul were in flames yesterday after renewed air attacks by the United States. "It has happened again," said Mario Musa, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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- Rumsfeld: US to soon put more troops in Afghanistan
- Reuters article by Charles Aldinger (1 Nov 2001): The US will soon put more elite troops on the ground in Afghanistan, sharply increasing bomb targeting and other support for anti-Taliban forces, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfelt said on Thursday. But bad weather and Taliban ground fire had beaten back recent attempts to insert more forces.
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- Taliban say hospital hit
- AP article (23 Oct 2001): Afghanistan's ruling Taliban said up to 100 people were killed when US and British war planes bombed a hospital in the western city of Herat, and accused the United States of genocidal attacks.
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- Tehran struggles with domestic impact of US action
- STRATEGIC FORECASTING article (6 Nov 2001): As Uzbek and Tajik factions of Afghanistan's Northern Alliance posture and launch piecemeal assaults on Taliban positions, the Iranian-backed Hazara factions have done little. This reticence could reflect political maneuvering by Iran. But signs are emerging that Tehran is neglecting the Afghan war because of its destabilizing impact on domestic politics.
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- Theories of European Warfare
- Article by Adib Rashad, placing the U.S. attack on Afghanistan in historical and strategic perspective.
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- US 'planned attack on Taliban'
- BBC News article by George Arney (18 Sept 2001): Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American officials in mid-July that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October. Full URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1550000/1550366.stm
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