Category Archives: Afghanistan

Associated Press, via the Toronto Sun, as found here, at rawa.org: ‘Death to America’, Afghans riot after crash Chanting “Death to America,” rioters stoned the US convoy involved in the accident KABUL — Violent anti-foreigner protests raged across Afghanistan’s capital … Continue reading →

From The Taliban Shuffle (2010) by Kim Barker, in relation to the 2004 Afghan election: The election was, perhaps, the most confusing every held anywhere. Somehow, a voter in Kabul was supposed to pick one candidate out of 390. The … Continue reading →

From The Taliban Shuffle (2010) by Kim Barker, in relation to the Kabul Zoo: I had gone to the zoo, planning to use it as an interesting way to tell the history of modern Afghanistan. My hook was Marjan the … Continue reading →

From The Taliban Shuffle (2010) by Kim Barker, in relation to her first “embedded” engagement with American troops in Afghanistan: I would learn that everything in the military had an acronym. The IED was an improvised explosive device, or roadside … Continue reading →