Kabul

Kabul Fried Chicken == Afghan Fried Chicken

Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect (Free subscription) | yesterday

It was another one of those sorties into the city, trying to explain to the driver that we needed to go to the local KFC - Kabul Fried Chicken. Not for the food I hasten to add, but to reshoot some of these photos - which have served well to explain the street hack culture prevalent around the world. Except that the three local branches of Kabul Fried Chicken are no more, shut down and now replaced...

Afghanistan: UN withdraws from Kabul?

Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | yesterday

Sailani says that in response to continuing threats to the foreign staff in Afghanistan, it now appears that a decision has been made to withdraw about six hundred UN international officers from Kabul.

The real fear in Kabul

Trudy Rubin's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Trudy Rubin’s Worldview column runs on Wednesdays and Sundays. In the past five years she has visited Iraq nine times and has also written from Iran, Pakistan, Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, China and South Korea . She is the author of Willful Blindness: the Bush Administration and Iraq, a book of her columns from 2002-2004. In 2001 she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize...

Kabul's wedding singer district

Raționalitate (Free subscription) | yesterday

Apparently, in Kabul, there's a "wedding singer district" – or at least a part of a street – where you can insist on a live demonstration before hiring someone to sing at your wedding. Jan Chipchase's blog is always pretty interesting – he's a UI researcher for Nokia who travels the world in search of novel uses of technology, from high and low.

NATO strike kills 7 Afghan security forces: Kabul

France24 (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

Seven members of the Afghan security forces were killed in a NATO air strike in remote western Afghanistan, the defence ministry said on Saturday. "Due to a NATO forces air strike on November 6 in Badghis province seven Afghan security personnel (both Afghan army and national police) were martyred and also some were wounded," the ministry said in a statement. "The commando brigade informs...

• Ministry: NATO airstrike kills Afghan soldiers - Miami Herald
• Seven Afghan forces killed in NATO airstrike: Defence ministry - The Earth Times Online Newspaper
• See the 5 articles on the same subject

Kabul hits back at foreign criticism

MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

Pushing back against international criticism, Afghan officials say the top U.N. official in the country overstepped his authority by giving instructions on how to rid the government of corruption.

Kabul hits back at foreign criticism

MSNBC.com: Top MSNBC Headlines (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

Pushing back against international criticism, Afghan officials say the top U.N. official in the country overstepped his authority by giving instructions on how to rid the government of corruption.

NATO strike kills 7 Afghan security forces: Kabul

The Age (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009

Seven members of the Afghan security forces were killed in a NATO air strike in remote western Afghanistan, the defence ministry said on Saturday.

Interview with Taliban Spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid re: the UN Guesthouse Attack in Kabul

Counterterrorism Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

The NEFA Foundation has obtained an English transcript of an interview with Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid regarding the October 28th attack on the UN Guesthouse in Kabul that left 11 dead, including 5 UN workers . According to the interview, “A great number of foreigners, who are to monitor the coming runoff elections, are staying in the guesthouse. Being equipped with weapons, the Mujahideen...

General slams UN exit from Kabul

Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

INNICH, Germany: The German general commanding NATO forces in Afghanistan has criticised the United Nations decision to evacuate more than half its international staff based there.

Afstan: Brits to reduce combat effort to win public support?

The Torch (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

My word. Three stories ( via Norman's Spectator ): 1) McChrystal seeks to keep UK troops ' out of harm's way ' General aims to foil Taliban plan to make Afghanistan a British election issue Barack Obama's top general in Afghanistan is considering a radical realignment of Britain's role in the country amid fears that the Taliban will target UK troops in the run-up to next May's general election. General...

The Afghans are concerned about more troops - the United States must want the fighting to go on

And, yes, I DO take it personally (Free subscription) | yesterday

Moises Saman for The New York Times At a bazaar in Charikar, north of Kabul, many Afghans said they felt vulnerable to the Taliban, unprotected by their own government or the American forces. yeah, no shit... In bazaars and university corridors across the country, eight years of war have left people exhausted and impatient. They are increasingly skeptical that the Taliban can be defeated. Nearly everyone...

• Prospect of More U.S. Troops Worries Afghan Public - The Agonist
• Prospect of More U.S. Troops Worries Afghan Public - New York Times
• See the 4 articles on the same subject

Afghanistan Closes Schools Due To H1N1

Avian Flu Diary (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

# 3974 Six days ago Afghanistan declared the pandemic to be an emergency (see Afghanistan Declares H1N1 Emergency ), warning that 1 infected person in 80 die from the pandemic virus. As many as 70,000 deaths. While those estimates may turn out to be high, there is no doubt that developing nations have graver concerns with this pandemic virus than do countries with access to antivirals, antibiotics,...

Karzai vows to fight corruption

The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Embattled Afghan President Hamid Karzai pledged Sunday that there would be no place for corrupt officials in his new administration -- a demand made by Washington and its international partners as they ponder sending more troops to confront the Taliban and shore up his government. Also Sunday, NATO reported three more coalition soldiers -- one American and two Britons -- died...

• Afghan vows to keep corrupt officials out of govt - Miami Herald

In Helmand Afghans fear Marines will leave

PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | yesterday

LA Times: When 500 U.S. Marines descended on this Taliban stronghold overnight, Afghan civilians were immediately suspicious about the intentions of the heavily armed Americans. One question dominated all others: How long will the Americans stay? Five months later, there is still no clear answer. "The No. 1 question the Marines get is: 'When are you going home?' " said Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson,...