Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

RFE/RL Afghanistan Report 11/24/2010 9:35:15 PM A review of RFE/RL reporting and analysis about Afghanistan. For more stories on Afghanistan, please visit and bookmark our Afghanistan page .

 

Think Tanks Joseph Hammond looks at the deployment of Abrams tanks by U.S. forces in Afghanistan. More   Afghans Release Election Results Afghan election officials have announced final results from all but one voting district in September's parliamentary elections -- disqualifying a total of 24 candidates who had been announced as winners in preliminary results. More   Outrage Over A NATO Dismissal Of Kabul Children's Fears Critics in Kabul say that by suggesting children are as safe in the Afghan capital as in New York or London, NATO's representative has proven he has no concept of the daily fears and struggles of ordinary Afghans. More   Into Taliban Territory: The Beginnings Of The Tarbuz Guzar Militia In part 4 of Muhammad Tahir's ''Into Taliban Territory" series, he looks at the beginnings of the Tarbuz Guzar militia. More   Afghanistan: A Safe Haven For Children? NATO’s top civilian in Afghanistan, Mark Sedwill, set off a firestorm this week when he said Afghan children were safer in Kabul than in London. More   File ‘Obama’s Wars’ Somewhere ‘Between Fiction And Nonfiction’ When it was released in September, “Obama’s Wars,” "Washington Post" writer Bob Woodward’s latest insider account of high politics in Washington, made waves. More   Is A Negotiated Peace Possible In Afghanistan? During a recent trip to Afghanistan, everyone was talking about the government’s peace talks with the Taliban and other insurgents. But this consensus leaves unanswered some crucial questions More   Breaking Internet Censorship Will Take More Than Circumvention Tools Many press reports have portrayed circumvention tools as a clear path toward Internet (and possibly even broader political) freedom. But The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University's recent findings challenege this theory, with numbers that indicate that only about 3 percent of people in filtering countries use circumvention tools. More   Adezai Lashkar Holds Strong Amanullah Ghilzai discusses the local militia in Adezai, a village just outside Peshawar, Pakistan. So far, the lashkar has resisted Taliban advances. More   Interview: Douglas Feith Defends Bush Policies Douglas Feith was central to planning for the U.S. war in Iraq. Among his tasks as undersecretary of defense for policy from July 2001 until August 2005 was overseeing the Pentagon Office of Special Plans, which the Pentagon's inspector-general later judged to have provided intelligence analysis "inconsistent with the consensus of the intelligence community." RFE/RL's Gregory Feifer spoke with him from London. More   U.S. Undersecretary Of State For Public Diplomacy Talk About America's Image Judith McHale, the U.S. undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, has been tasked with leading America’s engagement with the people of the world. It's a daunting job description with many obvious challenges. But the former CEO says she's making progress. During a visit to Prague, McHale sat down with RFE/RL senior correspondent Jeremy Bransten to discuss her work. More   Afghans Wary Of Russia's Return How will Russia's legacy effect its return to Afghanistan? More