AFGHANISTAN
4th century – Two huge buddhas were carved in sandstone in the caves of Bamiyan. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).
1507 – The Uzbeks rose to power in central Asia and made their capital in Herat western Afghanistan. (Afghanistan and cental Asia ©2002 Martin McCauley).
1841 – British national archives. Spy diplomat, captain Sir Alexander Burnes was murdered in Kabul in 1841. (The new spymasters. Stephen Grey (c)2015 UK).
1851 – Sir John Kaye. The history of the war in Afghanistan London UK vol 1.
July 1880 – Ayub, brother of the Emir, defeated a British force and killed 1,000 men in the west of Afghanistan at Maiwand. (History today. Feb 2014 p31).
Aug 1880 – After an unsuccessful attempt to occupy Afghanistan, British forces withdrew. Abdur Rahman Khan became ruler. The prison population went from 1,500 in 1880 to 20,000 in 1896. He killed about 100,000 people during his reign. (History Today June 2014 UK).
1884 – The Russians advanced from Merv to Panjdem 20 miles from Herat. (History today. Feb 2014 p31).
May 1919 – The third Afghan war broke out in May 1919, with the Afghan army crossing the fronetier into Pakistan. The attack recaptured Bagh, charged Afghan army with bayonets. (Who do you think you are. May 2014 UK).
1920s – Pinterest. A Kuchi nomad woman carrying water. Cirque. Tumblr.
1926 – The third Afghan war in 1919 official account, government of India 1926.
1956 – Wikipedia. List of people who disappeared mysteriosly. Gunnel Gummeson age 26. Swedish teacher and Peter Winant went missing in Afghanistan.
9 June 1956 – 400 people were killed. Timeline of earthquakes.
1965 – A Fletcher. Afghanistan, highway of conquest Cornell.
1 Jan 1965 – a leftist party called Khalq (masses), was set up under Nur Mohammad Taraki. In June 1967 a second leftist party called Parcham (banner or flag), was formed under Babrak Karmal.
1974 – Mohammed Niazi the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was jailed along with 200 of his associates. 50 others fled to Pakistan where they set up opposition movements. (Afghanistan ©2002 M Ewans).
1978 – Less than 200 tons of dried opium was produced in 1978 in Afghanistan, before the Soviet invasion. (Afghanistan (c)2002 M Ewans).
27 April 1978 – Leaders of the combined Khalq and Parcham leftist parties launched a coup. President Daoud Khan and his supporters were killed. The Democratic republic of Afghanistan DRA was set up. The Saur revolution was also Islamic.
5 Dec 1978 – Taraki went to Moscow and signed with Leonid Brezhnev a treaty of friendship and cooperation with the Soviet Union. Soviet military advisers played a role in directing DRA military units in their war against the rebels in the countryside.
24 Dec 1979 – Soviet forces entered Afghanistan. Peshawar Pakistan was the HQ for the Afghan resistance to Soviet occupation. Mujahadeen. The Saudis matched the Americans dollar for dollar until the end of the war. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright (c)2006 US).
27 Dec 1979 – The ouster of the leftist peoples Democratic party of Afghanistan backed by Soviet special forces Spetnazy in Kabul. (NZ and the Soviet Union. AL Wilson ©2004).
28 Dec 1979 – The KGB on the war in Afghanistan, now the Russian archives. Thousands of Afghan villages and 4 million refugees. The death of one million Afghans in the war. The coffins of 15,000 Russian returning troops who were killed in Afghanistan. Secret funerals. A cemetery at Kuzminsky monastery, with no reference to Afghanistan. (The Mitrokhin archives. Christopher Andrew. Vasili Mitrokhin (c)1999-2000).
1980s – The Saudis gave several billion dollars in arms and economic aid for Afghanistan, against the Soviets Gorbachev. The CIA was funding Afghan Madrasses. in the 1980s. Saudi prince Bandar. (The shadow world. Andrew Feinstein (c)2011 US).
1980s – During the 1980s Afghan war against the Soviets. Saudi Arabia’s Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz, organised transport to Afghanistan for militants, the Mujahadeen, from various Arab countries. He controlled Saudi charities, giving tens of millions to the Mujahadeen. Many of these charities were on the US list of terror sponsors. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).
Feb 1984 – Sam Bamieh and Saudi prince Bandar met in Cannes France in Feb 1984. Shell companies to funnel money to Angola and Afghanistan. CIA William Casey. (The shadow world. Andrew Feinstein (c)2011 US).
26 June 1984 – bin Laden recorded that the Mujahadeen shot down four Soviet aircraft. (The looming tower. Larence Wright ©2006 US).
May 1986 – Burton Gerber went to Islamabad, CIA Afghan program in May 1986. (Circle of treason. Sandra Grimes (c)2012 US).
17 April 1987 – Osama bin Laden led 120 fighters to attack an Afghan government post near Khost. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).
May 1988 – The Soviets began a staged withdrawl from Afghanistan, signalling an end to the war. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).
15 May 1988 – The Soviets began withdrawl from Afghanistan. (This day in history. 15 May 2015).
1989 – There were more than one million Afghans dead. Six million refugees in Pakistan and Iran. The Soviets had 15,000 dead and 53,000 wounded. The Taliban moved in. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).
15 Feb 1989 – General Boris V Gromov was commander of Soviet forces in Afghanistan. He walked into Uzbekistan on 15 Feb 1989. The Soviets had lost 15,000 lives and 30,000 people were wounded. One to two million Afghanis died. 90% of them were civilians. A third of the people of Afghanistan were in refugee camps in Pakistan and Iran. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).
Aug 1996 – Bin Laden declared war on America from a cave in Afghanistan. US forces were still in Saudi Arabia, five years after the Gulf war. A Saudi in a cave in Tora Bora. Bin Laden became the most wanted man in FBI history. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).
Sept 1996 - The Taliban were in the capital Kabul. There had been no census in Afghanistan since 1979. Mullah Omar and Sharia law, Islamic Koran. Al Qaeda was led by Osama bin Laden who arrived in Afghanistan in 1996 from Sudan. His associate was Ayman al Zawahiri. The destruction of the Bamiyan buddhas. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011)
28 Nov 1997 – Newsmag. Forces of the northern warlord Abdul Rashid Dostan found 30 mass graves of Taliban soldiers.
4 Feb 1998 – 4,500 people were killed in Takhar in a 6.1 earthquake. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).
30 May 1998 – 6.8 earthquake. 4,000 people were killed in Takhar. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).
1999 – The Afghan production of opium was about 4,500 tons, 75% of the world total. See Alain Cabrousse. Liberation 4 Oct 2001. (Jihad. Gilles Kepel (c)2002 UK).
2000 to 2006 – Afghan opium production went from 3,276 metric tonnes in 2000 to 185 tonnes in 2001. A record high of 6,610 metric tonnes in 2006.
March 2001 – The Taliban destroyed centuries old Buddhist figures, which were carved into the Baniyan of Afghanistan. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).
11 Sept 2001 – The US obliterated Afghanistan, after the terrorist attack of 11 Sept 2001. 9/11. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).
6 Oct 2001 – Start of war declared by George Bush. The bombing of Afghanistan began. Operation Enduring Freedom on 7 Oct 2001. (Against freedom. Valerie Morse. (c)2007 NZ).
7 Oct 2001 – Unocal oil and gas pipeline through Afghanistan from Turkistan to Pakistan. Unocal oil and gas pipelines.
7 Oct 2001 – Invasion of Afghanistan by the US. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone (c)2012 US).
7 Oct 2001 – US invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert ops on the ground. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 7 Oct 2015)
15 Oct 2001 – Opium banks in Afghanistan. War on terror. John Zubruzyski. The Australian Canberra ACT. Opium farmers use an informal network of opium banks.
8-11 Nov 2001 – On 8 Nov 2001 bin Laden and al Zawahiri were in Kabul, then they went to Jalalabad on 10 Nov 2001. The place was full of refugees. On 11 Nov 2001 at an Islamic centre bin Laden gave a speech. Bin Laden handed out $100,000 and left the next day for Tora Bora. (The 9/11 war. Jason Burke ©2011)..
25 March 2002 – In the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan a 6.1 earthquake killed 1,000 people. USGS historic world earthquakes.
8 April 2002 – Mass graves in Afghanistan, bodies of 35 adults and children. Irish Times Dublin.
May 2002 – 13,000 foreign troops were in Afghanistan. Until summer 2002, food for the troops in Bagran Afghanistan, was cooked at US bases in Ramstein Germany. It was flown 4,000 miles, reheated and served. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).
31 Aug 2003 – Billions of dollars in Saudi oil revenue. Time article. Book “Why America slept”. al Qaeda terrorist Abu Zubaydah was captured by Americans in Afghanistan. He was Osama bin Laden’s number three man. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).
5 April 2004 – Michael Chossudossky. The spoils of war. Afghanistan’s multibillion dollar heroin trade. Centre for research globalisation.
Sept 2006 – The roots of the Taliban.. in Afghanistan was to Sept 2006. The same with al-Qaeda safe havens in Waziristan. The Pakistani FATA, federal administered tribal areas. Tribal laws govern there. In Sept 2006 the Waziristan accord. Pashtun tribal leaders, the Maliks. Pakistani intel ISI and Ashfaq Kayani. (Playing to the edge. Michael V Hayden (c)2016 US).
2007 – Sheep were domesticated in Afghanistan and Mesopotamia 3000 years ago. (Quilting patchwork applique. Caroline Crabtree (c)2007 UK).
July 2007 – 23 people were kidnapped in Afghanistan. (Playing to the edge. Michael V Hayden. (c)2016 US).
4 Aug 2007 – Matthew Lee. Another record poppy crop in Afghanistan. AP.
Sept 2007 – UN figures for Sept 2007. Afghanistan accounted for 95% of the world’s opium crops.
2008 – Michael Hayden was in Afghanistan at the Kabul station. Taliban and al-Qaeda in the Pakistan Afghan border area, the Durand line. Kabul after Yolanda, a young woman. Pres Musharraf in Pakistan Feb 2008. Aug 2008. Fled to London UK in Nov 2008 from Pakistan. Musharaf was succeeded by Asif Ali Zardai. US amabasador to Pakistan was Anne Patterson. (Playing to the edge. Michael V Hayden (c)2016 US).
6 March 2008 – Afghan heroin production at new high. The Australian Canberra ACT.
27 March 2008 – Supplier under scrutiny on arms for Afghans. New York Times.
30 June 2008 – Slash the Taliban’s cash crops. Martin Chulov. The Australian Canberra ACT heroin.
13 July 2009 – Taos industries team wins Logcap IV task order in Afghanistan. Business wire.
10 August 2009 – Afghanistan’s narco war breaking the link between drug traffickers and insurgents. A report to the committee on foreign relations US Senate 111 Congress first sess ebook (Worldcat database).
Dec 2009 – In Khost, 7 CIA agents were killed by an officer from Jordan. (Playing to the edge. Michael V Hayden (c)2016 US).
31 Dec 2009 – A Jordanian doctor and secret agent, killed seven CIA employees in Afghanistan. Humam al Balawi was a Palestinian Jordanian. (The new spymasters. Stephen Grey (c)2015 UK).
2010 – Afghanistan a cultural and political history. Thomas Barfield. Google books.
2010 – American war machine, deep politics the CIA and global drug connection and the road to Afghanistan. Peter Dale Scott. Laham and Rowman, Littlefield pub (Worldcat database).
Feb 2010 – The death of seven CIA and contractors in a suicide bombing in Khost Afghanistan. (Playing to the edge. Michael V Hayden (c)2016 US).
2011 – The global Afghan opium trade, a threat assessment Hakan Demirbuken Hayder Mili Renee Le Cussan UN ebook Vienna Austria (Worldcat database).
2011 – The nexus international terrorism and drug trafficking from Afghanistan. Frank Shanty ebook Santa Barbara Calif Praeger security int (Worldcat database).
2011 – Terrorism and drug trafficking from Afghanistan. Frank Shanty ebook Santa Barbara California Prager. Worldcat database.
29 April 2011 - CIA as Christians in action. Intel gathering. SEALS at Camp Alpha Bagram air base in Afghanistan. “Operation Spear” to capture and kill bin Laden. Intel hard drives, DVDs, usb and papers. The USS Carl Vinson, with bin Laden’s body in the south Arabian sea. Identified by biometrics and DNA, he was buried at sea. Apparently bin laden had no electricity or internet. (Seal team six. Howard E Wasdin. ©2011 US UK).
23 June 2011 – Barack Obama says 33,000 troops will leave next year. Afghan withdrawl. The Guardian UK.
25 June 2012 – Australian soldiers take aim at Afghan opium growers. Max Blenkin. The Mercury Hobart Tasmania. Afghan heroin goes to Australia and Russia.
27 Jan 2013 – 20 policemen were killed in a series of bomb attacks in Kandahar. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 27 Jan 2016).
Dec 2013 – Ancient Ghazni and the tomb of Biruni. Afghanistan explorer of the middle ages. Ghazni and the place of Biruni's tomb. The 13th century manuscript of al-Biruni's navigations. (History today. Dec 2013 UK).
26 March 2014 - http://americanfreepress.net/is-cia-fueling-new-u-s-drug-epidemic-using-cheap-heroin-from-afghanistan-cia-obama-team-up-to-hide-darkest-secrets/
22 Oct 2014 – Inspector general, new opium highs, corruption in Afghanistan. US news and world report. Illegal drug trade, billions from the US.
14 Jan 2015 – ISIS has set up base in Afghanistan, less than 3 months after British troops left. Southern Afghanistan, Mullah Abdul Rauf is recruiting fighters. Daily mail.
25 Jan 2015 – Dianne Feinstein said the rapid pull out of Afghanistan will help an al Qaeda resurgence. Pam Key. Breitbart.
30 Jan 2015 – Three Americans were killed in a shooting at Kabul airport. Three American contractors were killed in a shooting on a military site. The Express. New York Times.
27 Feb 2015 – More than 160 people have been killed in Afghanistan avalanches. Villages in north Afghanistan were burying more than 180 people killed in avalanches. The Indian. Stuff.co.nz.
12 May 2015 – A 6.9 earthquake in Afghanistan. About the same time as a 7.4 earthquake in Nepal. Both quakes were felt in India. Hindustan Times.
28 July 2015 – 21 people were killed in a gun battle in northern Afghanistan. Washington Post. New York Times. Kabul. The gun battle between rival warlords in the northern Baghlai province.
31 July 2015 – MOD says laws must change after UK Afghan detention policies ruled illegal. The Telegraph UK. Twitter.
6 Sept 2015 – Young school girls were attacked with gas and acid in Afghanistan. 30 girls were sent to hospital, it was the 4th such incident in a week. Four female teachers and 26 students were hospitalised. School in Herat. (Gary Walton G+. The Big wobble).
9 Oct 2015 – Your Anon facts. Twitter. Earthquake 4.8 in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan.
10 Oct 2015 – Fresh clashes erupt in Afghanistan's Kunduz. Security forces and the Tailban clash in Kunduz city. Xinhua.
16 Oct 2015 – CIA and west torture alleged. ACLU says the psychologists, James Elmer Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen.. Post 9/11 torture. Psychological torture. Stuff.co.nz.
16 Oct 2015 – Australia to join the US in keeping troops in Afghanistan. Sydney Morning Herald. David Wroe. The Taliban in Kunduz.
17 Oct 2015 – Russia putting guards in Tajikistan to fend of ISIS. Russian defence fight terrorism by putting guards on the border between Afganistan and Tajikistan. General Yuri Borisov. Before its news.
17 Oct 2015 – Putin warns of spillover from Afghan fighting. Astana Kabul. Putin says violence in Afghanistan could spill over into ex Soviet states. The Nation. NDTV.
17 Oct 2015 – US tanks attack the MSF hospital in Kunduz Afghanistan to destroy evidence. Twitter. RT.
17 Oct 2015 – US tanks attack the MSF hospital in Kunduz to destroy evidence. Twitter. Before its news.
20 Oct 2015 – The US puts Taliban leader on the terrorism list. Torek Agha. Taliban. The long war journal.
22 Oct 2015 – Russia eyes Afghanistan, again. Visits to Moscow by Afghan leaders and a NATO pullout of Afghanistan. Communities digital news.
18 Nov 2015 – A 4.3 earthquake in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan. Twitter. Earthquake reports.
2 Dec 2015 – NATO will keep 12,000 troops in Afghanistan through 2016. Belfast Telegraph.
5 Dec 2015 – A CIA paramilitary unit called the Khost protection force KPF, in eastern Afghanistan, civilian killings and torture called counter terrorism, mercenary killings. A new report. Taliban and al Qaeda terrroists. Press TV.
10 Dec 2015 – Dozens of people were killed during the weekend. A Taliban attack on Kandahar airport in southern Afghanistan. Helmand province falls. The Globe and Mail.
12 Dec 2015 – Car bomb rips through Kabul. A terrorist attack close to the Spanish embassy. Taliban suicide attack. Jakarta Post. Reuters. CNN.
16 Dec 2015 – Taliban attacks in Afghanistan spike in 2015. ISIS growing stronger, Pentagon. RT. Reuters. https://www.rt.com/usa/326117-afghanistan-security-taliban-pentagon/
16 Dec 2015 – US military says al Qaeda is in Afghan east and north east. The long war journal. Bill Roggio. http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/12/us-military-insists-al-qaeda-is-concentrated-in-afghan-east-and-northeast.php
17 Dec 2015 – The Long war journal. The US, Taliban and al Qaeda. Bill Roggio. Thomas Joscelyn. Ayman al Zawahiri al Qaeda leader. Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour. http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/12/us-continues-to-push-for-negotiations-with-taliban-despite-direct-ties-to-al-qaeda.php
18 Dec 2015 – Pentagon chief says the Afghan war is far from over. Ash Carter says 10,000 US troops will stay in Afghanistan through most of 2016. Corruption. Afghan pres Ashraf Ghani. VOA. Ayaz Gul in Islamabad. http://www.voanews.com/content/us-defense-secretary-makes-unannounced-stop-in-afghanistan/3108473.html
23 Dec 2015 – A suicide bombing in Afghanistan kills 6 US NATO workers. Wikinews.
25 Dec 2015 – A 6.3 earthquake. At least 30 people were injured 200 miles from the epicenter. Near borders Tajikistan and Pakistan. Greg Botelho and Michael Martinez. CNN. Injured in Peshawar Pakistan. The Watchers. 6.9 earthquake. Hindu Kush region Afghanistan. Aftershock from a recent 8 earthquake in the same area. http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2015/12/25/powerful-m6-9-earthquake-hits-hindu-kush-region-afghanistan/
31 Dec 2015 – US General likely to seek more troops for Afghanistan. Gen John Campbell. 9,800 US troops currently. Dawn. Pakistan. USA Today. http://www.dawn.com/news/1229806/us-general-likely-to-seek-more-troops-for-afghanistan
2 Jan 2016 – A 4.6 earthquake in the Hindu Kush region. Twitter. Earthquake report.
4 Jan 2016 – Explosions heard as gunmen attack the Indian consulate in Mazari-i-Sharif Afghanistan. http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/75602172/explosions-gunshots-at-indian-consulate-in-afghan-city-mazarisharif
13 Jan 2016 – The Pakistani consulate in Jalalabad has been sealed off after a suicide bomber killed himself and two others, injured 2 more people. Radio NZ. BBC UK.
19 Jan 2016 - http://thediplomat.com/2016/01/confirmed-first-four-a-29-light-attack-aircraft-arrive-in-afghanistan/
21 Jan 2016 – 7 people killed in a suicide bombing. Tolo news private TV channel. Daily Times. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/region/21-Jan-2016/seven-dead-as-suicide-bomber-hits-afghan-tv-channel-bus
27 Jan 2016 – A 5.2 earthquake near the border with Tajikistan. Sputnik. Twitter.
8 Feb 2016 – A 4.1 earthquake near Hindu Kush region Afghanistan. My earthquake alerts. Twitter.
14 Feb 2016 - http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/02/afghan-civilian-casualties-hit-record-11000-2015-160214071436972.html
28 Feb 2016 - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-28/afghan-blasts-kill-25-jeopardising-peace-talks/7205738
29 Feb 2016 - http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/02/29/justice-delayed-for-army-sergeant-who-defended-afghan-boy-from-rapist.html?intcmp=ob_article_sidebar_video&intcmp=obnetwork
2 March 2016 - http://www.voanews.com/content/nato-command-changes-in-afghanistan/3216366.html
3 March 2016 - http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/suicide-bombers-hit-indian-consulate/article8306478.ece
10 April 2016 – Earthquake. India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. A 6.6 quake. 3 people were reported dead. Shaking buildings. Panic and power outages. The Extinction protocol. Hindustan Times.
23 April 2016 – Death finds Afghan refugee in Christchurch New Zealand. A 2 year old boy from Afghanistan choked to death on food. NZ Herald.
6 June 2016 – Corruption and greed in the Afghan gem trade. BBC UK. 7 people were killed as the Taliban gun attacked an Afghan courthouse. The Sun Daily. The Guardian UK. Mining of lapis lazuli helps fund the Taliban.
7 June 2016 – Sputnik. Graveyard of empires. America's endless wars in Afghanistan. Taliban, Osama wars. 7 Oct 2001 Afghanistan and Pakistan.
7 June 2016 – Hundreds of Afghans attend the funeral of a slain journalist, killed in a Taliban rocket attack. VOA.
8 June 2016 – Griffin Walker. G+. Pakstan imposes restrictions at the Afghan border, stranding thousands of people. Rferl-org.
10 June 2016 – Wall street journal. US eases restrictions on the fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
12 June 2016 – Stars and stripes. Eltaf Najafizada, Bloomberg, Reuters. Al-Qaeda is backing the Taliban. Obama.
15 June 2016 – Stars and stripes. Tara Copp. He US air force is going to increase airstrikes on Afghanistan.
18 June 2016 – Taliban. Paedophile cops in Afghanistan. Before its news. Police rape boys.
20 June 2016 – Yahoo news. Taliban suicide bomber killed at least 14 people in Kabul. Explosions on a bus carrying workers from Nepal.
29 June 2016 – New Zealand team in Afghan village. Ryan Dunlop. Timaru Herald NZ.
29 June 2016 – Radio NZ. Security forces in Ashraf Ghani, Sex abuse of boys by the police. Rape s;lavery of boys by police in Afghanistan.
7 July 2016 – Frank Take G+. Anonymous global state. No end to Afghan war. Obama slows US withdrawl, the poppy fields and minerals. Daily Mail.
1 Aug 2016 – Press TV. G+. A huge truck bomb exploded in Kabul. Knocking out electricity and the internet. Kabul goes dark.
4 Aug 2016 – Twitter. Earthquakes today. A 4.6 earthquake near Jabal os Saraj. Seisom EMSC A 4.6 earthquake Hindu Kush.
8 Aug 2016 – World news posts. Twitter. Americans and Australiasn kidnapped at gunpoint in Kabul. Gunmen wearing security force uniforms. A series of abductions. Robinspost.com.
9 Aug 2016 - RT. Twitter. ISIS and the Taliban. A safe haven for terrorists, reports out of Afghanistan. Youtube.
17 Aug 2016 - Twitter. Earthquake report. A 4.5 earthquake in Hindukush region.
17 Aug 2016 - Twitter. Earthquake today. A 4.5 earthquake near Jarm in Afghanistan.
18 Aug 2016 – Blacklisted news. The US has nearly 30,000 defence contractors in Afghanistan.
24 Aug 2016 - Twitter. Anon sly team news. A US soldier was killed in an anti Taliban mission, NATO. RT int. Helmand province, another was injured.
25 Aug 2016 – Twitter. Benjamin Weinthal. Christian Thels. 12 people were killed in an attack on an American uni in Kabul. RFE.
27 Aug 2016 – The Taliban take over areas in eastern Afghanistan. The Long war journal. Bill Roggio.
2024 – US troops may stay in Afghanistan until 2024. Daily Telegraph. 19 Aug 2011.
AFGHANISTAN
4th century – Two huge buddhas were carved in sandstone in the caves of Bamiyan. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).
1507 – The Uzbeks rose to power in central Asia and made their capital in Herat western Afghanistan. (Afghanistan and cental Asia ©2002 Martin McCauley).
1841 – British national archives. Spy diplomat, captain Sir Alexander Burnes was murdered in Kabul in 1841. (The new spymasters. Stephen Grey (c)2015 UK).
1851 – Sir John Kaye. The history of the war in Afghanistan London UK vol 1.
July 1880 – Ayub, brother of the Emir, defeated a British force and killed 1,000 men in the west of Afghanistan at Maiwand. (History today. Feb 2014 p31).
Aug 1880 – After an unsuccessful attempt to occupy Afghanistan, British forces withdrew. Abdur Rahman Khan became ruler. The prison population went from 1,500 in 1880 to 20,000 in 1896. He killed about 100,000 people during his reign. (History Today June 2014 UK).
1884 – The Russians advanced from Merv to Panjdem 20 miles from Herat. (History today. Feb 2014 p31).
May 1919 – The third Afghan war broke out in May 1919, with the Afghan army crossing the fronetier into Pakistan. The attack recaptured Bagh, charged Afghan army with bayonets. (Who do you think you are. May 2014 UK).
1920s – Pinterest. A Kuchi nomad woman carrying water. Cirque. Tumblr.
1926 – The third Afghan war in 1919 official account, government of India 1926.
1956 – Wikipedia. List of people who disappeared mysteriosly. Gunnel Gummeson age 26. Swedish teacher and Peter Winant went missing in Afghanistan.
9 June 1956 – 400 people were killed. Timeline of earthquakes.
1965 – A Fletcher. Afghanistan, highway of conquest Cornell.
1 Jan 1965 – a leftist party called Khalq (masses), was set up under Nur Mohammad Taraki. In June 1967 a second leftist party called Parcham (banner or flag), was formed under Babrak Karmal.
1974 – Mohammed Niazi the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was jailed along with 200 of his associates. 50 others fled to Pakistan where they set up opposition movements. (Afghanistan ©2002 M Ewans).
1978 – Less than 200 tons of dried opium was produced in 1978 in Afghanistan, before the Soviet invasion. (Afghanistan (c)2002 M Ewans).
27 April 1978 – Leaders of the combined Khalq and Parcham leftist parties launched a coup. President Daoud Khan and his supporters were killed. The Democratic republic of Afghanistan DRA was set up. The Saur revolution was also Islamic.
5 Dec 1978 – Taraki went to Moscow and signed with Leonid Brezhnev a treaty of friendship and cooperation with the Soviet Union. Soviet military advisers played a role in directing DRA military units in their war against the rebels in the countryside.
24 Dec 1979 – Soviet forces entered Afghanistan. Peshawar Pakistan was the HQ for the Afghan resistance to Soviet occupation. Mujahadeen. The Saudis matched the Americans dollar for dollar until the end of the war. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright (c)2006 US).
27 Dec 1979 – The ouster of the leftist peoples Democratic party of Afghanistan backed by Soviet special forces Spetnazy in Kabul. (NZ and the Soviet Union. AL Wilson ©2004).
28 Dec 1979 – The KGB on the war in Afghanistan, now the Russian archives. Thousands of Afghan villages and 4 million refugees. The death of one million Afghans in the war. The coffins of 15,000 Russian returning troops who were killed in Afghanistan. Secret funerals. A cemetery at Kuzminsky monastery, with no reference to Afghanistan. (The Mitrokhin archives. Christopher Andrew. Vasili Mitrokhin (c)1999-2000).
1980s – The Saudis gave several billion dollars in arms and economic aid for Afghanistan, against the Soviets Gorbachev. The CIA was funding Afghan Madrasses. in the 1980s. Saudi prince Bandar. (The shadow world. Andrew Feinstein (c)2011 US).
1980s – During the 1980s Afghan war against the Soviets. Saudi Arabia’s Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz, organised transport to Afghanistan for militants, the Mujahadeen, from various Arab countries. He controlled Saudi charities, giving tens of millions to the Mujahadeen. Many of these charities were on the US list of terror sponsors. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).
Feb 1984 – Sam Bamieh and Saudi prince Bandar met in Cannes France in Feb 1984. Shell companies to funnel money to Angola and Afghanistan. CIA William Casey. (The shadow world. Andrew Feinstein (c)2011 US).
26 June 1984 – bin Laden recorded that the Mujahadeen shot down four Soviet aircraft. (The looming tower. Larence Wright ©2006 US).
May 1986 – Burton Gerber went to Islamabad, CIA Afghan program in May 1986. (Circle of treason. Sandra Grimes (c)2012 US).
17 April 1987 – Osama bin Laden led 120 fighters to attack an Afghan government post near Khost. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).
May 1988 – The Soviets began a staged withdrawl from Afghanistan, signalling an end to the war. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).
15 May 1988 – The Soviets began withdrawl from Afghanistan. (This day in history. 15 May 2015).
1989 – There were more than one million Afghans dead. Six million refugees in Pakistan and Iran. The Soviets had 15,000 dead and 53,000 wounded. The Taliban moved in. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).
15 Feb 1989 – General Boris V Gromov was commander of Soviet forces in Afghanistan. He walked into Uzbekistan on 15 Feb 1989. The Soviets had lost 15,000 lives and 30,000 people were wounded. One to two million Afghanis died. 90% of them were civilians. A third of the people of Afghanistan were in refugee camps in Pakistan and Iran. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).
Aug 1996 – Bin Laden declared war on America from a cave in Afghanistan. US forces were still in Saudi Arabia, five years after the Gulf war. A Saudi in a cave in Tora Bora. Bin Laden became the most wanted man in FBI history. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).
Sept 1996 - The Taliban were in the capital Kabul. There had been no census in Afghanistan since 1979. Mullah Omar and Sharia law, Islamic Koran. Al Qaeda was led by Osama bin Laden who arrived in Afghanistan in 1996 from Sudan. His associate was Ayman al Zawahiri. The destruction of the Bamiyan buddhas. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011)
28 Nov 1997 – Newsmag. Forces of the northern warlord Abdul Rashid Dostan found 30 mass graves of Taliban soldiers.
4 Feb 1998 – 4,500 people were killed in Takhar in a 6.1 earthquake. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).
30 May 1998 – 6.8 earthquake. 4,000 people were killed in Takhar. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).
1999 – The Afghan production of opium was about 4,500 tons, 75% of the world total. See Alain Cabrousse. Liberation 4 Oct 2001. (Jihad. Gilles Kepel (c)2002 UK).
2000 to 2006 – Afghan opium production went from 3,276 metric tonnes in 2000 to 185 tonnes in 2001. A record high of 6,610 metric tonnes in 2006.
March 2001 – The Taliban destroyed centuries old Buddhist figures, which were carved into the Baniyan of Afghanistan. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).
11 Sept 2001 – The US obliterated Afghanistan, after the terrorist attack of 11 Sept 2001. 9/11. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).
6 Oct 2001 – Start of war declared by George Bush. The bombing of Afghanistan began. Operation Enduring Freedom on 7 Oct 2001. (Against freedom. Valerie Morse. (c)2007 NZ).
7 Oct 2001 – Unocal oil and gas pipeline through Afghanistan from Turkistan to Pakistan. Unocal oil and gas pipelines.
7 Oct 2001 – Invasion of Afghanistan by the US. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone (c)2012 US).
7 Oct 2001 – US invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert ops on the ground. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 7 Oct 2015)
15 Oct 2001 – Opium banks in Afghanistan. War on terror. John Zubruzyski. The Australian Canberra ACT. Opium farmers use an informal network of opium banks.
8-11 Nov 2001 – On 8 Nov 2001 bin Laden and al Zawahiri were in Kabul, then they went to Jalalabad on 10 Nov 2001. The place was full of refugees. On 11 Nov 2001 at an Islamic centre bin Laden gave a speech. Bin Laden handed out $100,000 and left the next day for Tora Bora. (The 9/11 war. Jason Burke ©2011)..
25 March 2002 – In the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan a 6.1 earthquake killed 1,000 people. USGS historic world earthquakes.
8 April 2002 – Mass graves in Afghanistan, bodies of 35 adults and children. Irish Times Dublin.
May 2002 – 13,000 foreign troops were in Afghanistan. Until summer 2002, food for the troops in Bagran Afghanistan, was cooked at US bases in Ramstein Germany. It was flown 4,000 miles, reheated and served. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).
31 Aug 2003 – Billions of dollars in Saudi oil revenue. Time article. Book “Why America slept”. al Qaeda terrorist Abu Zubaydah was captured by Americans in Afghanistan. He was Osama bin Laden’s number three man. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).
5 April 2004 – Michael Chossudossky. The spoils of war. Afghanistan’s multibillion dollar heroin trade. Centre for research globalisation.
Sept 2006 – The roots of the Taliban.. in Afghanistan was to Sept 2006. The same with al-Qaeda safe havens in Waziristan. The Pakistani FATA, federal administered tribal areas. Tribal laws govern there. In Sept 2006 the Waziristan accord. Pashtun tribal leaders, the Maliks. Pakistani intel ISI and Ashfaq Kayani. (Playing to the edge. Michael V Hayden (c)2016 US).
2007 – Sheep were domesticated in Afghanistan and Mesopotamia 3000 years ago. (Quilting patchwork applique. Caroline Crabtree (c)2007 UK).
July 2007 – 23 people were kidnapped in Afghanistan. (Playing to the edge. Michael V Hayden. (c)2016 US).
4 Aug 2007 – Matthew Lee. Another record poppy crop in Afghanistan. AP.
Sept 2007 – UN figures for Sept 2007. Afghanistan accounted for 95% of the world’s opium crops.
2008 – Michael Hayden was in Afghanistan at the Kabul station. Taliban and al-Qaeda in the Pakistan Afghan border area, the Durand line. Kabul after Yolanda, a young woman. Pres Musharraf in Pakistan Feb 2008. Aug 2008. Fled to London UK in Nov 2008 from Pakistan. Musharaf was succeeded by Asif Ali Zardai. US amabasador to Pakistan was Anne Patterson. (Playing to the edge. Michael V Hayden (c)2016 US).
6 March 2008 – Afghan heroin production at new high. The Australian Canberra ACT.
27 March 2008 – Supplier under scrutiny on arms for Afghans. New York Times.
30 June 2008 – Slash the Taliban’s cash crops. Martin Chulov. The Australian Canberra ACT heroin.
13 July 2009 – Taos industries team wins Logcap IV task order in Afghanistan. Business wire.
10 August 2009 – Afghanistan’s narco war breaking the link between drug traffickers and insurgents. A report to the committee on foreign relations US Senate 111 Congress first sess ebook (Worldcat database).
Dec 2009 – In Khost, 7 CIA agents were killed by an officer from Jordan. (Playing to the edge. Michael V Hayden (c)2016 US).
31 Dec 2009 – A Jordanian doctor and secret agent, killed seven CIA employees in Afghanistan. Humam al Balawi was a Palestinian Jordanian. (The new spymasters. Stephen Grey (c)2015 UK).
2010 – Afghanistan a cultural and political history. Thomas Barfield. Google books.
2010 – American war machine, deep politics the CIA and global drug connection and the road to Afghanistan. Peter Dale Scott. Laham and Rowman, Littlefield pub (Worldcat database).
Feb 2010 – The death of seven CIA and contractors in a suicide bombing in Khost Afghanistan. (Playing to the edge. Michael V Hayden (c)2016 US).
2011 – The global Afghan opium trade, a threat assessment Hakan Demirbuken Hayder Mili Renee Le Cussan UN ebook Vienna Austria (Worldcat database).
2011 – The nexus international terrorism and drug trafficking from Afghanistan. Frank Shanty ebook Santa Barbara Calif Praeger security int (Worldcat database).
2011 – Terrorism and drug trafficking from Afghanistan. Frank Shanty ebook Santa Barbara California Prager. Worldcat database.
29 April 2011 - CIA as Christians in action. Intel gathering. SEALS at Camp Alpha Bagram air base in Afghanistan. “Operation Spear” to capture and kill bin Laden. Intel hard drives, DVDs, usb and papers. The USS Carl Vinson, with bin Laden’s body in the south Arabian sea. Identified by biometrics and DNA, he was buried at sea. Apparently bin laden had no electricity or internet. (Seal team six. Howard E Wasdin. ©2011 US UK).
23 June 2011 – Barack Obama says 33,000 troops will leave next year. Afghan withdrawl. The Guardian UK.
25 June 2012 – Australian soldiers take aim at Afghan opium growers. Max Blenkin. The Mercury Hobart Tasmania. Afghan heroin goes to Australia and Russia.
27 Jan 2013 – 20 policemen were killed in a series of bomb attacks in Kandahar. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 27 Jan 2016).
Dec 2013 – Ancient Ghazni and the tomb of Biruni. Afghanistan explorer of the middle ages. Ghazni and the place of Biruni's tomb. The 13th century manuscript of al-Biruni's navigations. (History today. Dec 2013 UK).
26 March 2014 - http://americanfreepress.net/is-cia-fueling-new-u-s-drug-epidemic-using-cheap-heroin-from-afghanistan-cia-obama-team-up-to-hide-darkest-secrets/
22 Oct 2014 – Inspector general, new opium highs, corruption in Afghanistan. US news and world report. Illegal drug trade, billions from the US.
14 Jan 2015 – ISIS has set up base in Afghanistan, less than 3 months after British troops left. Southern Afghanistan, Mullah Abdul Rauf is recruiting fighters. Daily mail.
25 Jan 2015 – Dianne Feinstein said the rapid pull out of Afghanistan will help an al Qaeda resurgence. Pam Key. Breitbart.
30 Jan 2015 – Three Americans were killed in a shooting at Kabul airport. Three American contractors were killed in a shooting on a military site. The Express. New York Times.
27 Feb 2015 – More than 160 people have been killed in Afghanistan avalanches. Villages in north Afghanistan were burying more than 180 people killed in avalanches. The Indian. Stuff.co.nz.
12 May 2015 – A 6.9 earthquake in Afghanistan. About the same time as a 7.4 earthquake in Nepal. Both quakes were felt in India. Hindustan Times.
28 July 2015 – 21 people were killed in a gun battle in northern Afghanistan. Washington Post. New York Times. Kabul. The gun battle between rival warlords in the northern Baghlai province.
31 July 2015 – MOD says laws must change after UK Afghan detention policies ruled illegal. The Telegraph UK. Twitter.
6 Sept 2015 – Young school girls were attacked with gas and acid in Afghanistan. 30 girls were sent to hospital, it was the 4th such incident in a week. Four female teachers and 26 students were hospitalised. School in Herat. (Gary Walton G+. The Big wobble).
9 Oct 2015 – Your Anon facts. Twitter. Earthquake 4.8 in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan.
10 Oct 2015 – Fresh clashes erupt in Afghanistan's Kunduz. Security forces and the Tailban clash in Kunduz city. Xinhua.
16 Oct 2015 – CIA and west torture alleged. ACLU says the psychologists, James Elmer Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen.. Post 9/11 torture. Psychological torture. Stuff.co.nz.
16 Oct 2015 – Australia to join the US in keeping troops in Afghanistan. Sydney Morning Herald. David Wroe. The Taliban in Kunduz.
17 Oct 2015 – Russia putting guards in Tajikistan to fend of ISIS. Russian defence fight terrorism by putting guards on the border between Afganistan and Tajikistan. General Yuri Borisov. Before its news.
17 Oct 2015 – Putin warns of spillover from Afghan fighting. Astana Kabul. Putin says violence in Afghanistan could spill over into ex Soviet states. The Nation. NDTV.
17 Oct 2015 – US tanks attack the MSF hospital in Kunduz Afghanistan to destroy evidence. Twitter. RT.
17 Oct 2015 – US tanks attack the MSF hospital in Kunduz to destroy evidence. Twitter. Before its news.
20 Oct 2015 – The US puts Taliban leader on the terrorism list. Torek Agha. Taliban. The long war journal.
22 Oct 2015 – Russia eyes Afghanistan, again. Visits to Moscow by Afghan leaders and a NATO pullout of Afghanistan. Communities digital news.
18 Nov 2015 – A 4.3 earthquake in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan. Twitter. Earthquake reports.
2 Dec 2015 – NATO will keep 12,000 troops in Afghanistan through 2016. Belfast Telegraph.
5 Dec 2015 – A CIA paramilitary unit called the Khost protection force KPF, in eastern Afghanistan, civilian killings and torture called counter terrorism, mercenary killings. A new report. Taliban and al Qaeda terrroists. Press TV.
10 Dec 2015 – Dozens of people were killed during the weekend. A Taliban attack on Kandahar airport in southern Afghanistan. Helmand province falls. The Globe and Mail.
12 Dec 2015 – Car bomb rips through Kabul. A terrorist attack close to the Spanish embassy. Taliban suicide attack. Jakarta Post. Reuters. CNN.
16 Dec 2015 – Taliban attacks in Afghanistan spike in 2015. ISIS growing stronger, Pentagon. RT. Reuters. https://www.rt.com/usa/326117-afghanistan-security-taliban-pentagon/
16 Dec 2015 – US military says al Qaeda is in Afghan east and north east. The long war journal. Bill Roggio. http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/12/us-military-insists-al-qaeda-is-concentrated-in-afghan-east-and-northeast.php
17 Dec 2015 – The Long war journal. The US, Taliban and al Qaeda. Bill Roggio. Thomas Joscelyn. Ayman al Zawahiri al Qaeda leader. Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour. http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/12/us-continues-to-push-for-negotiations-with-taliban-despite-direct-ties-to-al-qaeda.php
18 Dec 2015 – Pentagon chief says the Afghan war is far from over. Ash Carter says 10,000 US troops will stay in Afghanistan through most of 2016. Corruption. Afghan pres Ashraf Ghani. VOA. Ayaz Gul in Islamabad. http://www.voanews.com/content/us-defense-secretary-makes-unannounced-stop-in-afghanistan/3108473.html
23 Dec 2015 – A suicide bombing in Afghanistan kills 6 US NATO workers. Wikinews.
25 Dec 2015 – A 6.3 earthquake. At least 30 people were injured 200 miles from the epicenter. Near borders Tajikistan and Pakistan. Greg Botelho and Michael Martinez. CNN. Injured in Peshawar Pakistan. The Watchers. 6.9 earthquake. Hindu Kush region Afghanistan. Aftershock from a recent 8 earthquake in the same area. http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2015/12/25/powerful-m6-9-earthquake-hits-hindu-kush-region-afghanistan/
31 Dec 2015 – US General likely to seek more troops for Afghanistan. Gen John Campbell. 9,800 US troops currently. Dawn. Pakistan. USA Today. http://www.dawn.com/news/1229806/us-general-likely-to-seek-more-troops-for-afghanistan
2 Jan 2016 – A 4.6 earthquake in the Hindu Kush region. Twitter. Earthquake report.
4 Jan 2016 – Explosions heard as gunmen attack the Indian consulate in Mazari-i-Sharif Afghanistan. http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/75602172/explosions-gunshots-at-indian-consulate-in-afghan-city-mazarisharif
13 Jan 2016 – The Pakistani consulate in Jalalabad has been sealed off after a suicide bomber killed himself and two others, injured 2 more people. Radio NZ. BBC UK.
19 Jan 2016 - http://thediplomat.com/2016/01/confirmed-first-four-a-29-light-attack-aircraft-arrive-in-afghanistan/
21 Jan 2016 – 7 people killed in a suicide bombing. Tolo news private TV channel. Daily Times. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/region/21-Jan-2016/seven-dead-as-suicide-bomber-hits-afghan-tv-channel-bus
27 Jan 2016 – A 5.2 earthquake near the border with Tajikistan. Sputnik. Twitter.
8 Feb 2016 – A 4.1 earthquake near Hindu Kush region Afghanistan. My earthquake alerts. Twitter.
14 Feb 2016 - http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/02/afghan-civilian-casualties-hit-record-11000-2015-160214071436972.html
28 Feb 2016 - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-28/afghan-blasts-kill-25-jeopardising-peace-talks/7205738
29 Feb 2016 - http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/02/29/justice-delayed-for-army-sergeant-who-defended-afghan-boy-from-rapist.html?intcmp=ob_article_sidebar_video&intcmp=obnetwork
2 March 2016 - http://www.voanews.com/content/nato-command-changes-in-afghanistan/3216366.html
3 March 2016 - http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/suicide-bombers-hit-indian-consulate/article8306478.ece
10 April 2016 – Earthquake. India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. A 6.6 quake. 3 people were reported dead. Shaking buildings. Panic and power outages. The Extinction protocol. Hindustan Times.
23 April 2016 – Death finds Afghan refugee in Christchurch New Zealand. A 2 year old boy from Afghanistan choked to death on food. NZ Herald.
6 June 2016 – Corruption and greed in the Afghan gem trade. BBC UK. 7 people were killed as the Taliban gun attacked an Afghan courthouse. The Sun Daily. The Guardian UK. Mining of lapis lazuli helps fund the Taliban.
7 June 2016 – Sputnik. Graveyard of empires. America's endless wars in Afghanistan. Taliban, Osama wars. 7 Oct 2001 Afghanistan and Pakistan.
7 June 2016 – Hundreds of Afghans attend the funeral of a slain journalist, killed in a Taliban rocket attack. VOA.
8 June 2016 – Griffin Walker. G+. Pakstan imposes restrictions at the Afghan border, stranding thousands of people. Rferl-org.
10 June 2016 – Wall street journal. US eases restrictions on the fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
12 June 2016 – Stars and stripes. Eltaf Najafizada, Bloomberg, Reuters. Al-Qaeda is backing the Taliban. Obama.
15 June 2016 – Stars and stripes. Tara Copp. He US air force is going to increase airstrikes on Afghanistan.
18 June 2016 – Taliban. Paedophile cops in Afghanistan. Before its news. Police rape boys.
20 June 2016 – Yahoo news. Taliban suicide bomber killed at least 14 people in Kabul. Explosions on a bus carrying workers from Nepal.
29 June 2016 – New Zealand team in Afghan village. Ryan Dunlop. Timaru Herald NZ.
29 June 2016 – Radio NZ. Security forces in Ashraf Ghani, Sex abuse of boys by the police. Rape s;lavery of boys by police in Afghanistan.
7 July 2016 – Frank Take G+. Anonymous global state. No end to Afghan war. Obama slows US withdrawl, the poppy fields and minerals. Daily Mail.
1 Aug 2016 – Press TV. G+. A huge truck bomb exploded in Kabul. Knocking out electricity and the internet. Kabul goes dark.
4 Aug 2016 – Twitter. Earthquakes today. A 4.6 earthquake near Jabal os Saraj. Seisom EMSC A 4.6 earthquake Hindu Kush.
8 Aug 2016 – World news posts. Twitter. Americans and Australiasn kidnapped at gunpoint in Kabul. Gunmen wearing security force uniforms. A series of abductions. Robinspost.com.
9 Aug 2016 - RT. Twitter. ISIS and the Taliban. A safe haven for terrorists, reports out of Afghanistan. Youtube.
17 Aug 2016 - Twitter. Earthquake report. A 4.5 earthquake in Hindukush region.
17 Aug 2016 - Twitter. Earthquake today. A 4.5 earthquake near Jarm in Afghanistan.
18 Aug 2016 – Blacklisted news. The US has nearly 30,000 defence contractors in Afghanistan.
24 Aug 2016 - Twitter. Anon sly team news. A US soldier was killed in an anti Taliban mission, NATO. RT int. Helmand province, another was injured.
25 Aug 2016 – Twitter. Benjamin Weinthal. Christian Thels. 12 people were killed in an attack on an American uni in Kabul. RFE.
27 Aug 2016 – The Taliban take over areas in eastern Afghanistan. The Long war journal. Bill Roggio.
2024 – US troops may stay in Afghanistan until 2024. Daily Telegraph. 19 Aug 2011.
AFGHANISTAN
4th century – Two huge buddhas were carved in sandstone in the caves of Bamiyan. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).
1507 – The Uzbeks rose to power in central Asia and made their capital in Herat western Afghanistan. (Afghanistan and cental Asia ©2002 Martin McCauley).
1841 – British national archives. Spy diplomat, captain Sir Alexander Burnes was murdered in Kabul in 1841. (The new spymasters. Stephen Grey (c)2015 UK).
1851 – Sir John Kaye. The history of the war in Afghanistan London UK vol 1.
July 1880 – Ayub, brother of the Emir, defeated a British force and killed 1,000 men in the west of Afghanistan at Maiwand. (History today. Feb 2014 p31).
Aug 1880 – After an unsuccessful attempt to occupy Afghanistan, British forces withdrew. Abdur Rahman Khan became ruler. The prison population went from 1,500 in 1880 to 20,000 in 1896. He killed about 100,000 people during his reign. (History Today June 2014 UK).
1884 – The Russians advanced from Merv to Panjdem 20 miles from Herat. (History today. Feb 2014 p31).
May 1919 – The third Afghan war broke out in May 1919, with the Afghan army crossing the fronetier into Pakistan. The attack recaptured Bagh, charged Afghan army with bayonets. (Who do you think you are. May 2014 UK).
1920s – Pinterest. A Kuchi nomad woman carrying water. Cirque. Tumblr.
1926 – The third Afghan war in 1919 official account, government of India 1926.
1956 – Wikipedia. List of people who disappeared mysteriosly. Gunnel Gummeson age 26. Swedish teacher and Peter Winant went missing in Afghanistan.
9 June 1956 – 400 people were killed. Timeline of earthquakes.
1965 – A Fletcher. Afghanistan, highway of conquest Cornell.
1 Jan 1965 – a leftist party called Khalq (masses), was set up under Nur Mohammad Taraki. In June 1967 a second leftist party called Parcham (banner or flag), was formed under Babrak Karmal.
1974 – Mohammed Niazi the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was jailed along with 200 of his associates. 50 others fled to Pakistan where they set up opposition movements. (Afghanistan ©2002 M Ewans).
1978 – Less than 200 tons of dried opium was produced in 1978 in Afghanistan, before the Soviet invasion. (Afghanistan (c)2002 M Ewans).
27 April 1978 – Leaders of the combined Khalq and Parcham leftist parties launched a coup. President Daoud Khan and his supporters were killed. The Democratic republic of Afghanistan DRA was set up. The Saur revolution was also Islamic.
5 Dec 1978 – Taraki went to Moscow and signed with Leonid Brezhnev a treaty of friendship and cooperation with the Soviet Union. Soviet military advisers played a role in directing DRA military units in their war against the rebels in the countryside.
24 Dec 1979 – Soviet forces entered Afghanistan. Peshawar Pakistan was the HQ for the Afghan resistance to Soviet occupation. Mujahadeen. The Saudis matched the Americans dollar for dollar until the end of the war. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright (c)2006 US).
27 Dec 1979 – The ouster of the leftist peoples Democratic party of Afghanistan backed by Soviet special forces Spetnazy in Kabul. (NZ and the Soviet Union. AL Wilson ©2004).
28 Dec 1979 – The KGB on the war in Afghanistan, now the Russian archives. Thousands of Afghan villages and 4 million refugees. The death of one million Afghans in the war. The coffins of 15,000 Russian returning troops who were killed in Afghanistan. Secret funerals. A cemetery at Kuzminsky monastery, with no reference to Afghanistan. (The Mitrokhin archives. Christopher Andrew. Vasili Mitrokhin (c)1999-2000).
1980s – The Saudis gave several billion dollars in arms and economic aid for Afghanistan, against the Soviets Gorbachev. The CIA was funding Afghan Madrasses. in the 1980s. Saudi prince Bandar. (The shadow world. Andrew Feinstein (c)2011 US).
1980s – During the 1980s Afghan war against the Soviets. Saudi Arabia’s Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz, organised transport to Afghanistan for militants, the Mujahadeen, from various Arab countries. He controlled Saudi charities, giving tens of millions to the Mujahadeen. Many of these charities were on the US list of terror sponsors. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).
Feb 1984 – Sam Bamieh and Saudi prince Bandar met in Cannes France in Feb 1984. Shell companies to funnel money to Angola and Afghanistan. CIA William Casey. (The shadow world. Andrew Feinstein (c)2011 US).
26 June 1984 – bin Laden recorded that the Mujahadeen shot down four Soviet aircraft. (The looming tower. Larence Wright ©2006 US).
May 1986 – Burton Gerber went to Islamabad, CIA Afghan program in May 1986. (Circle of treason. Sandra Grimes (c)2012 US).
17 April 1987 – Osama bin Laden led 120 fighters to attack an Afghan government post near Khost. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).
May 1988 – The Soviets began a staged withdrawl from Afghanistan, signalling an end to the war. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).
15 May 1988 – The Soviets began withdrawl from Afghanistan. (This day in history. 15 May 2015).
1989 – There were more than one million Afghans dead. Six million refugees in Pakistan and Iran. The Soviets had 15,000 dead and 53,000 wounded. The Taliban moved in. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).
15 Feb 1989 – General Boris V Gromov was commander of Soviet forces in Afghanistan. He walked into Uzbekistan on 15 Feb 1989. The Soviets had lost 15,000 lives and 30,000 people were wounded. One to two million Afghanis died. 90% of them were civilians. A third of the people of Afghanistan were in refugee camps in Pakistan and Iran. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).
Aug 1996 – Bin Laden declared war on America from a cave in Afghanistan. US forces were still in Saudi Arabia, five years after the Gulf war. A Saudi in a cave in Tora Bora. Bin Laden became the most wanted man in FBI history. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).
Sept 1996 - The Taliban were in the capital Kabul. There had been no census in Afghanistan since 1979. Mullah Omar and Sharia law, Islamic Koran. Al Qaeda was led by Osama bin Laden who arrived in Afghanistan in 1996 from Sudan. His associate was Ayman al Zawahiri. The destruction of the Bamiyan buddhas. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011)
28 Nov 1997 – Newsmag. Forces of the northern warlord Abdul Rashid Dostan found 30 mass graves of Taliban soldiers.
4 Feb 1998 – 4,500 people were killed in Takhar in a 6.1 earthquake. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).
30 May 1998 – 6.8 earthquake. 4,000 people were killed in Takhar. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).
1999 – The Afghan production of opium was about 4,500 tons, 75% of the world total. See Alain Cabrousse. Liberation 4 Oct 2001. (Jihad. Gilles Kepel (c)2002 UK).
2000 to 2006 – Afghan opium production went from 3,276 metric tonnes in 2000 to 185 tonnes in 2001. A record high of 6,610 metric tonnes in 2006.
March 2001 – The Taliban destroyed centuries old Buddhist figures, which were carved into the Baniyan of Afghanistan. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).
11 Sept 2001 – The US obliterated Afghanistan, after the terrorist attack of 11 Sept 2001. 9/11. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).
6 Oct 2001 – Start of war declared by George Bush. The bombing of Afghanistan began. Operation Enduring Freedom on 7 Oct 2001. (Against freedom. Valerie Morse. (c)2007 NZ).
7 Oct 2001 – Unocal oil and gas pipeline through Afghanistan from Turkistan to Pakistan. Unocal oil and gas pipelines.
7 Oct 2001 – Invasion of Afghanistan by the US. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone (c)2012 US).
7 Oct 2001 – US invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert ops on the ground. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 7 Oct 2015)
15 Oct 2001 – Opium banks in Afghanistan. War on terror. John Zubruzyski. The Australian Canberra ACT. Opium farmers use an informal network of opium banks.
8-11 Nov 2001 – On 8 Nov 2001 bin Laden and al Zawahiri were in Kabul, then they went to Jalalabad on 10 Nov 2001. The place was full of refugees. On 11 Nov 2001 at an Islamic centre bin Laden gave a speech. Bin Laden handed out $100,000 and left the next day for Tora Bora. (The 9/11 war. Jason Burke ©2011)..
25 March 2002 – In the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan a 6.1 earthquake killed 1,000 people. USGS historic world earthquakes.
8 April 2002 – Mass graves in Afghanistan, bodies of 35 adults and children. Irish Times Dublin.
May 2002 – 13,000 foreign troops were in Afghanistan. Until summer 2002, food for the troops in Bagran Afghanistan, was cooked at US bases in Ramstein Germany. It was flown 4,000 miles, reheated and served. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).
31 Aug 2003 – Billions of dollars in Saudi oil revenue. Time article. Book “Why America slept”. al Qaeda terrorist Abu Zubaydah was captured by Americans in Afghanistan. He was Osama bin Laden’s number three man. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).
5 April 2004 – Michael Chossudossky. The spoils of war. Afghanistan’s multibillion dollar heroin trade. Centre for research globalisation.
Sept 2006 – The roots of the Taliban.. in Afghanistan was to Sept 2006. The same with al-Qaeda safe havens in Waziristan. The Pakistani FATA, federal administered tribal areas. Tribal laws govern there. In Sept 2006 the Waziristan accord. Pashtun tribal leaders, the Maliks. Pakistani intel ISI and Ashfaq Kayani. (Playing to the edge. Michael V Hayden (c)2016 US).
2007 – Sheep were domesticated in Afghanistan and Mesopotamia 3000 years ago. (Quilting patchwork applique. Caroline Crabtree (c)2007 UK).
July 2007 – 23 people were kidnapped in Afghanistan. (Playing to the edge. Michael V Hayden. (c)2016 US).
4 Aug 2007 – Matthew Lee. Another record poppy crop in Afghanistan. AP.
Sept 2007 – UN figures for Sept 2007. Afghanistan accounted for 95% of the world’s opium crops.
2008 – Michael Hayden was in Afghanistan at the Kabul station. Taliban and al-Qaeda in the Pakistan Afghan border area, the Durand line. Kabul after Yolanda, a young woman. Pres Musharraf in Pakistan Feb 2008. Aug 2008. Fled to London UK in Nov 2008 from Pakistan. Musharaf was succeeded by Asif Ali Zardai. US amabasador to Pakistan was Anne Patterson. (Playing to the edge. Michael V Hayden (c)2016 US).
6 March 2008 – Afghan heroin production at new high. The Australian Canberra ACT.
27 March 2008 – Supplier under scrutiny on arms for Afghans. New York Times.
30 June 2008 – Slash the Taliban’s cash crops. Martin Chulov. The Australian Canberra ACT heroin.
13 July 2009 – Taos industries team wins Logcap IV task order in Afghanistan. Business wire.
10 August 2009 – Afghanistan’s narco war breaking the link between drug traffickers and insurgents. A report to the committee on foreign relations US Senate 111 Congress first sess ebook (Worldcat database).
Dec 2009 – In Khost, 7 CIA agents were killed by an officer from Jordan. (Playing to the edge. Michael V Hayden (c)2016 US).
31 Dec 2009 – A Jordanian doctor and secret agent, killed seven CIA employees in Afghanistan. Humam al Balawi was a Palestinian Jordanian. (The new spymasters. Stephen Grey (c)2015 UK).
2010 – Afghanistan a cultural and political history. Thomas Barfield. Google books.
2010 – American war machine, deep politics the CIA and global drug connection and the road to Afghanistan. Peter Dale Scott. Laham and Rowman, Littlefield pub (Worldcat database).
Feb 2010 – The death of seven CIA and contractors in a suicide bombing in Khost Afghanistan. (Playing to the edge. Michael V Hayden (c)2016 US).
2011 – The global Afghan opium trade, a threat assessment Hakan Demirbuken Hayder Mili Renee Le Cussan UN ebook Vienna Austria (Worldcat database).
2011 – The nexus international terrorism and drug trafficking from Afghanistan. Frank Shanty ebook Santa Barbara Calif Praeger security int (Worldcat database).
2011 – Terrorism and drug trafficking from Afghanistan. Frank Shanty ebook Santa Barbara California Prager. Worldcat database.
29 April 2011 - CIA as Christians in action. Intel gathering. SEALS at Camp Alpha Bagram air base in Afghanistan. “Operation Spear” to capture and kill bin Laden. Intel hard drives, DVDs, usb and papers. The USS Carl Vinson, with bin Laden’s body in the south Arabian sea. Identified by biometrics and DNA, he was buried at sea. Apparently bin laden had no electricity or internet. (Seal team six. Howard E Wasdin. ©2011 US UK).
23 June 2011 – Barack Obama says 33,000 troops will leave next year. Afghan withdrawl. The Guardian UK.
25 June 2012 – Australian soldiers take aim at Afghan opium growers. Max Blenkin. The Mercury Hobart Tasmania. Afghan heroin goes to Australia and Russia.
27 Jan 2013 – 20 policemen were killed in a series of bomb attacks in Kandahar. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 27 Jan 2016).
Dec 2013 – Ancient Ghazni and the tomb of Biruni. Afghanistan explorer of the middle ages. Ghazni and the place of Biruni's tomb. The 13th century manuscript of al-Biruni's navigations. (History today. Dec 2013 UK).
26 March 2014 - http://americanfreepress.net/is-cia-fueling-new-u-s-drug-epidemic-using-cheap-heroin-from-afghanistan-cia-obama-team-up-to-hide-darkest-secrets/
22 Oct 2014 – Inspector general, new opium highs, corruption in Afghanistan. US news and world report. Illegal drug trade, billions from the US.
14 Jan 2015 – ISIS has set up base in Afghanistan, less than 3 months after British troops left. Southern Afghanistan, Mullah Abdul Rauf is recruiting fighters. Daily mail.
25 Jan 2015 – Dianne Feinstein said the rapid pull out of Afghanistan will help an al Qaeda resurgence. Pam Key. Breitbart.
30 Jan 2015 – Three Americans were killed in a shooting at Kabul airport. Three American contractors were killed in a shooting on a military site. The Express. New York Times.
27 Feb 2015 – More than 160 people have been killed in Afghanistan avalanches. Villages in north Afghanistan were burying more than 180 people killed in avalanches. The Indian. Stuff.co.nz.
12 May 2015 – A 6.9 earthquake in Afghanistan. About the same time as a 7.4 earthquake in Nepal. Both quakes were felt in India. Hindustan Times.
28 July 2015 – 21 people were killed in a gun battle in northern Afghanistan. Washington Post. New York Times. Kabul. The gun battle between rival warlords in the northern Baghlai province.
31 July 2015 – MOD says laws must change after UK Afghan detention policies ruled illegal. The Telegraph UK. Twitter.
6 Sept 2015 – Young school girls were attacked with gas and acid in Afghanistan. 30 girls were sent to hospital, it was the 4th such incident in a week. Four female teachers and 26 students were hospitalised. School in Herat. (Gary Walton G+. The Big wobble).
9 Oct 2015 – Your Anon facts. Twitter. Earthquake 4.8 in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan.
10 Oct 2015 – Fresh clashes erupt in Afghanistan's Kunduz. Security forces and the Tailban clash in Kunduz city. Xinhua.
16 Oct 2015 – CIA and west torture alleged. ACLU says the psychologists, James Elmer Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen.. Post 9/11 torture. Psychological torture. Stuff.co.nz.
16 Oct 2015 – Australia to join the US in keeping troops in Afghanistan. Sydney Morning Herald. David Wroe. The Taliban in Kunduz.
17 Oct 2015 – Russia putting guards in Tajikistan to fend of ISIS. Russian defence fight terrorism by putting guards on the border between Afganistan and Tajikistan. General Yuri Borisov. Before its news.
17 Oct 2015 – Putin warns of spillover from Afghan fighting. Astana Kabul. Putin says violence in Afghanistan could spill over into ex Soviet states. The Nation. NDTV.
17 Oct 2015 – US tanks attack the MSF hospital in Kunduz Afghanistan to destroy evidence. Twitter. RT.
17 Oct 2015 – US tanks attack the MSF hospital in Kunduz to destroy evidence. Twitter. Before its news.
20 Oct 2015 – The US puts Taliban leader on the terrorism list. Torek Agha. Taliban. The long war journal.
22 Oct 2015 – Russia eyes Afghanistan, again. Visits to Moscow by Afghan leaders and a NATO pullout of Afghanistan. Communities digital news.
18 Nov 2015 – A 4.3 earthquake in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan. Twitter. Earthquake reports.
2 Dec 2015 – NATO will keep 12,000 troops in Afghanistan through 2016. Belfast Telegraph.
5 Dec 2015 – A CIA paramilitary unit called the Khost protection force KPF, in eastern Afghanistan, civilian killings and torture called counter terrorism, mercenary killings. A new report. Taliban and al Qaeda terrroists. Press TV.
10 Dec 2015 – Dozens of people were killed during the weekend. A Taliban attack on Kandahar airport in southern Afghanistan. Helmand province falls. The Globe and Mail.
12 Dec 2015 – Car bomb rips through Kabul. A terrorist attack close to the Spanish embassy. Taliban suicide attack. Jakarta Post. Reuters. CNN.
16 Dec 2015 – Taliban attacks in Afghanistan spike in 2015. ISIS growing stronger, Pentagon. RT. Reuters. https://www.rt.com/usa/326117-afghanistan-security-taliban-pentagon/
16 Dec 2015 – US military says al Qaeda is in Afghan east and north east. The long war journal. Bill Roggio. http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/12/us-military-insists-al-qaeda-is-concentrated-in-afghan-east-and-northeast.php
17 Dec 2015 – The Long war journal. The US, Taliban and al Qaeda. Bill Roggio. Thomas Joscelyn. Ayman al Zawahiri al Qaeda leader. Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour. http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/12/us-continues-to-push-for-negotiations-with-taliban-despite-direct-ties-to-al-qaeda.php
18 Dec 2015 – Pentagon chief says the Afghan war is far from over. Ash Carter says 10,000 US troops will stay in Afghanistan through most of 2016. Corruption. Afghan pres Ashraf Ghani. VOA. Ayaz Gul in Islamabad. http://www.voanews.com/content/us-defense-secretary-makes-unannounced-stop-in-afghanistan/3108473.html
23 Dec 2015 – A suicide bombing in Afghanistan kills 6 US NATO workers. Wikinews.
25 Dec 2015 – A 6.3 earthquake. At least 30 people were injured 200 miles from the epicenter. Near borders Tajikistan and Pakistan. Greg Botelho and Michael Martinez. CNN. Injured in Peshawar Pakistan. The Watchers. 6.9 earthquake. Hindu Kush region Afghanistan. Aftershock from a recent 8 earthquake in the same area. http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2015/12/25/powerful-m6-9-earthquake-hits-hindu-kush-region-afghanistan/
31 Dec 2015 – US General likely to seek more troops for Afghanistan. Gen John Campbell. 9,800 US troops currently. Dawn. Pakistan. USA Today. http://www.dawn.com/news/1229806/us-general-likely-to-seek-more-troops-for-afghanistan
2 Jan 2016 – A 4.6 earthquake in the Hindu Kush region. Twitter. Earthquake report.
4 Jan 2016 – Explosions heard as gunmen attack the Indian consulate in Mazari-i-Sharif Afghanistan. http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/75602172/explosions-gunshots-at-indian-consulate-in-afghan-city-mazarisharif
13 Jan 2016 – The Pakistani consulate in Jalalabad has been sealed off after a suicide bomber killed himself and two others, injured 2 more people. Radio NZ. BBC UK.
19 Jan 2016 - http://thediplomat.com/2016/01/confirmed-first-four-a-29-light-attack-aircraft-arrive-in-afghanistan/
21 Jan 2016 – 7 people killed in a suicide bombing. Tolo news private TV channel. Daily Times. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/region/21-Jan-2016/seven-dead-as-suicide-bomber-hits-afghan-tv-channel-bus
27 Jan 2016 – A 5.2 earthquake near the border with Tajikistan. Sputnik. Twitter.
8 Feb 2016 – A 4.1 earthquake near Hindu Kush region Afghanistan. My earthquake alerts. Twitter.
14 Feb 2016 - http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/02/afghan-civilian-casualties-hit-record-11000-2015-160214071436972.html
28 Feb 2016 - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-28/afghan-blasts-kill-25-jeopardising-peace-talks/7205738
29 Feb 2016 - http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/02/29/justice-delayed-for-army-sergeant-who-defended-afghan-boy-from-rapist.html?intcmp=ob_article_sidebar_video&intcmp=obnetwork
2 March 2016 - http://www.voanews.com/content/nato-command-changes-in-afghanistan/3216366.html
3 March 2016 - http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/suicide-bombers-hit-indian-consulate/article8306478.ece
10 April 2016 – Earthquake. India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. A 6.6 quake. 3 people were reported dead. Shaking buildings. Panic and power outages. The Extinction protocol. Hindustan Times.
23 April 2016 – Death finds Afghan refugee in Christchurch New Zealand. A 2 year old boy from Afghanistan choked to death on food. NZ Herald.
6 June 2016 – Corruption and greed in the Afghan gem trade. BBC UK. 7 people were killed as the Taliban gun attacked an Afghan courthouse. The Sun Daily. The Guardian UK. Mining of lapis lazuli helps fund the Taliban.
7 June 2016 – Sputnik. Graveyard of empires. America's endless wars in Afghanistan. Taliban, Osama wars. 7 Oct 2001 Afghanistan and Pakistan.
7 June 2016 – Hundreds of Afghans attend the funeral of a slain journalist, killed in a Taliban rocket attack. VOA.
8 June 2016 – Griffin Walker. G+. Pakstan imposes restrictions at the Afghan border, stranding thousands of people. Rferl-org.
10 June 2016 – Wall street journal. US eases restrictions on the fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
12 June 2016 – Stars and stripes. Eltaf Najafizada, Bloomberg, Reuters. Al-Qaeda is backing the Taliban. Obama.
15 June 2016 – Stars and stripes. Tara Copp. He US air force is going to increase airstrikes on Afghanistan.
18 June 2016 – Taliban. Paedophile cops in Afghanistan. Before its news. Police rape boys.
20 June 2016 – Yahoo news. Taliban suicide bomber killed at least 14 people in Kabul. Explosions on a bus carrying workers from Nepal.
29 June 2016 – New Zealand team in Afghan village. Ryan Dunlop. Timaru Herald NZ.
29 June 2016 – Radio NZ. Security forces in Ashraf Ghani, Sex abuse of boys by the police. Rape s;lavery of boys by police in Afghanistan.
7 July 2016 – Frank Take G+. Anonymous global state. No end to Afghan war. Obama slows US withdrawl, the poppy fields and minerals. Daily Mail.
1 Aug 2016 – Press TV. G+. A huge truck bomb exploded in Kabul. Knocking out electricity and the internet. Kabul goes dark.
4 Aug 2016 – Twitter. Earthquakes today. A 4.6 earthquake near Jabal os Saraj. Seisom EMSC A 4.6 earthquake Hindu Kush.
8 Aug 2016 – World news posts. Twitter. Americans and Australiasn kidnapped at gunpoint in Kabul. Gunmen wearing security force uniforms. A series of abductions. Robinspost.com.
9 Aug 2016 - RT. Twitter. ISIS and the Taliban. A safe haven for terrorists, reports out of Afghanistan. Youtube.
17 Aug 2016 - Twitter. Earthquake report. A 4.5 earthquake in Hindukush region.
17 Aug 2016 - Twitter. Earthquake today. A 4.5 earthquake near Jarm in Afghanistan.
18 Aug 2016 – Blacklisted news. The US has nearly 30,000 defence contractors in Afghanistan.
24 Aug 2016 - Twitter. Anon sly team news. A US soldier was killed in an anti Taliban mission, NATO. RT int. Helmand province, another was injured.
25 Aug 2016 – Twitter. Benjamin Weinthal. Christian Thels. 12 people were killed in an attack on an American uni in Kabul. RFE.
27 Aug 2016 – The Taliban take over areas in eastern Afghanistan. The Long war journal. Bill Roggio.
2024 – US troops may stay in Afghanistan until 2024. Daily Telegraph. 19 Aug 2011.
AFGHANISTAN
4th century – Two huge buddhas were carved in sandstone in the caves of Bamiyan. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).
1507 – The Uzbeks rose to power in central Asia and made their capital in Herat western Afghanistan. (Afghanistan and cental Asia ©2002 Martin McCauley).
1841 – British national archives. Spy diplomat, captain Sir Alexander Burnes was murdered in Kabul in 1841. (The new spymasters. Stephen Grey (c)2015 UK).
1851 – Sir John Kaye. The history of the war in Afghanistan London UK vol 1.
July 1880 – Ayub, brother of the Emir, defeated a British force and killed 1,000 men in the west of Afghanistan at Maiwand. (History today. Feb 2014 p31).
Aug 1880 – After an unsuccessful attempt to occupy Afghanistan, British forces withdrew. Abdur Rahman Khan became ruler. The prison population went from 1,500 in 1880 to 20,000 in 1896. He killed about 100,000 people during his reign. (History Today June 2014 UK).
1884 – The Russians advanced from Merv to Panjdem 20 miles from Herat. (History today. Feb 2014 p31).
May 1919 – The third Afghan war broke out in May 1919, with the Afghan army crossing the fronetier into Pakistan. The attack recaptured Bagh, charged Afghan army with bayonets. (Who do you think you are. May 2014 UK).
1920s – Pinterest. A Kuchi nomad woman carrying water. Cirque. Tumblr.
1926 – The third Afghan war in 1919 official account, government of India 1926.
1956 – Wikipedia. List of people who disappeared mysteriosly. Gunnel Gummeson age 26. Swedish teacher and Peter Winant went missing in Afghanistan.
9 June 1956 – 400 people were killed. Timeline of earthquakes.
1965 – A Fletcher. Afghanistan, highway of conquest Cornell.
1 Jan 1965 – a leftist party called Khalq (masses), was set up under Nur Mohammad Taraki. In June 1967 a second leftist party called Parcham (banner or flag), was formed under Babrak Karmal.
1974 – Mohammed Niazi the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was jailed along with 200 of his associates. 50 others fled to Pakistan where they set up opposition movements. (Afghanistan ©2002 M Ewans).
1978 – Less than 200 tons of dried opium was produced in 1978 in Afghanistan, before the Soviet invasion. (Afghanistan (c)2002 M Ewans).
27 April 1978 – Leaders of the combined Khalq and Parcham leftist parties launched a coup. President Daoud Khan and his supporters were killed. The Democratic republic of Afghanistan DRA was set up. The Saur revolution was also Islamic.
5 Dec 1978 – Taraki went to Moscow and signed with Leonid Brezhnev a treaty of friendship and cooperation with the Soviet Union. Soviet military advisers played a role in directing DRA military units in their war against the rebels in the countryside.
24 Dec 1979 – Soviet forces entered Afghanistan. Peshawar Pakistan was the HQ for the Afghan resistance to Soviet occupation. Mujahadeen. The Saudis matched the Americans dollar for dollar until the end of the war. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright (c)2006 US).
27 Dec 1979 – The ouster of the leftist peoples Democratic party of Afghanistan backed by Soviet special forces Spetnazy in Kabul. (NZ and the Soviet Union. AL Wilson ©2004).
28 Dec 1979 – The KGB on the war in Afghanistan, now the Russian archives. Thousands of Afghan villages and 4 million refugees. The death of one million Afghans in the war. The coffins of 15,000 Russian returning troops who were killed in Afghanistan. Secret funerals. A cemetery at Kuzminsky monastery, with no reference to Afghanistan. (The Mitrokhin archives. Christopher Andrew. Vasili Mitrokhin (c)1999-2000).
1980s – The Saudis gave several billion dollars in arms and economic aid for Afghanistan, against the Soviets Gorbachev. The CIA was funding Afghan Madrasses. in the 1980s. Saudi prince Bandar. (The shadow world. Andrew Feinstein (c)2011 US).
1980s – During the 1980s Afghan war against the Soviets. Saudi Arabia’s Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz, organised transport to Afghanistan for militants, the Mujahadeen, from various Arab countries. He controlled Saudi charities, giving tens of millions to the Mujahadeen. Many of these charities were on the US list of terror sponsors. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).
Feb 1984 – Sam Bamieh and Saudi prince Bandar met in Cannes France in Feb 1984. Shell companies to funnel money to Angola and Afghanistan. CIA William Casey. (The shadow world. Andrew Feinstein (c)2011 US).
26 June 1984 – bin Laden recorded that the Mujahadeen shot down four Soviet aircraft. (The looming tower. Larence Wright ©2006 US).
May 1986 – Burton Gerber went to Islamabad, CIA Afghan program in May 1986. (Circle of treason. Sandra Grimes (c)2012 US).
17 April 1987 – Osama bin Laden led 120 fighters to attack an Afghan government post near Khost. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).
May 1988 – The Soviets began a staged withdrawl from Afghanistan, signalling an end to the war. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).
15 May 1988 – The Soviets began withdrawl from Afghanistan. (This day in history. 15 May 2015).
1989 – There were more than one million Afghans dead. Six million refugees in Pakistan and Iran. The Soviets had 15,000 dead and 53,000 wounded. The Taliban moved in. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).
15 Feb 1989 – General Boris V Gromov was commander of Soviet forces in Afghanistan. He walked into Uzbekistan on 15 Feb 1989. The Soviets had lost 15,000 lives and 30,000 people were wounded. One to two million Afghanis died. 90% of them were civilians. A third of the people of Afghanistan were in refugee camps in Pakistan and Iran. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).
Aug 1996 – Bin Laden declared war on America from a cave in Afghanistan. US forces were still in Saudi Arabia, five years after the Gulf war. A Saudi in a cave in Tora Bora. Bin Laden became the most wanted man in FBI history. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).
Sept 1996 - The Taliban were in the capital Kabul. There had been no census in Afghanistan since 1979. Mullah Omar and Sharia law, Islamic Koran. Al Qaeda was led by Osama bin Laden who arrived in Afghanistan in 1996 from Sudan. His associate was Ayman al Zawahiri. The destruction of the Bamiyan buddhas. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011)
28 Nov 1997 – Newsmag. Forces of the northern warlord Abdul Rashid Dostan found 30 mass graves of Taliban soldiers.
4 Feb 1998 – 4,500 people were killed in Takhar in a 6.1 earthquake. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).
30 May 1998 – 6.8 earthquake. 4,000 people were killed in Takhar. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).
1999 – The Afghan production of opium was about 4,500 tons, 75% of the world total. See Alain Cabrousse. Liberation 4 Oct 2001. (Jihad. Gilles Kepel (c)2002 UK).
2000 to 2006 – Afghan opium production went from 3,276 metric tonnes in 2000 to 185 tonnes in 2001. A record high of 6,610 metric tonnes in 2006.
March 2001 – The Taliban destroyed centuries old Buddhist figures, which were carved into the Baniyan of Afghanistan. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).
11 Sept 2001 – The US obliterated Afghanistan, after the terrorist attack of 11 Sept 2001. 9/11. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).
6 Oct 2001 – Start of war declared by George Bush. The bombing of Afghanistan began. Operation Enduring Freedom on 7 Oct 2001. (Against freedom. Valerie Morse. (c)2007 NZ).
7 Oct 2001 – Unocal oil and gas pipeline through Afghanistan from Turkistan to Pakistan. Unocal oil and gas pipelines.
7 Oct 2001 – Invasion of Afghanistan by the US. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone (c)2012 US).
7 Oct 2001 – US invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert ops on the ground. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 7 Oct 2015)
15 Oct 2001 – Opium banks in Afghanistan. War on terror. John Zubruzyski. The Australian Canberra ACT. Opium farmers use an informal network of opium banks.
8-11 Nov 2001 – On 8 Nov 2001 bin Laden and al Zawahiri were in Kabul, then they went to Jalalabad on 10 Nov 2001. The place was full of refugees. On 11 Nov 2001 at an Islamic centre bin Laden gave a speech. Bin Laden handed out $100,000 and left the next day for Tora Bora. (The 9/11 war. Jason Burke ©2011)..
25 March 2002 – In the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan a 6.1 earthquake killed 1,000 people. USGS historic world earthquakes.
8 April 2002 – Mass graves in Afghanistan, bodies of 35 adults and children. Irish Times Dublin.
May 2002 – 13,000 foreign troops were in Afghanistan. Until summer 2002, food for the troops in Bagran Afghanistan, was cooked at US bases in Ramstein Germany. It was flown 4,000 miles, reheated and served. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).
31 Aug 2003 – Billions of dollars in Saudi oil revenue. Time article. Book “Why America slept”. al Qaeda terrorist Abu Zubaydah was captured by Americans in Afghanistan. He was Osama bin Laden’s number three man. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).
5 April 2004 – Michael Chossudossky. The spoils of war. Afghanistan’s multibillion dollar heroin trade. Centre for research globalisation.
Sept 2006 – The roots of the Taliban.. in Afghanistan was to Sept 2006. The same with al-Qaeda safe havens in Waziristan. The Pakistani FATA, federal administered tribal areas. Tribal laws govern there. In Sept 2006 the Waziristan accord. Pashtun tribal leaders, the Maliks. Pakistani intel ISI and Ashfaq Kayani. (Playing to the edge. Michael V Hayden (c)2016 US).
2007 – Sheep were domesticated in Afghanistan and Mesopotamia 3000 years ago. (Quilting patchwork applique. Caroline Crabtree (c)2007 UK).
July 2007 – 23 people were kidnapped in Afghanistan. (Playing to the edge. Michael V Hayden. (c)2016 US).
4 Aug 2007 – Matthew Lee. Another record poppy crop in Afghanistan. AP.
Sept 2007 – UN figures for Sept 2007. Afghanistan accounted for 95% of the world’s opium crops.
2008 – Michael Hayden was in Afghanistan at the Kabul station. Taliban and al-Qaeda in the Pakistan Afghan border area, the Durand line. Kabul after Yolanda, a young woman. Pres Musharraf in Pakistan Feb 2008. Aug 2008. Fled to London UK in Nov 2008 from Pakistan. Musharaf was succeeded by Asif Ali Zardai. US amabasador to Pakistan was Anne Patterson. (Playing to the edge. Michael V Hayden (c)2016 US).
6 March 2008 – Afghan heroin production at new high. The Australian Canberra ACT.
27 March 2008 – Supplier under scrutiny on arms for Afghans. New York Times.
30 June 2008 – Slash the Taliban’s cash crops. Martin Chulov. The Australian Canberra ACT heroin.
13 July 2009 – Taos industries team wins Logcap IV task order in Afghanistan. Business wire.
10 August 2009 – Afghanistan’s narco war breaking the link between drug traffickers and insurgents. A report to the committee on foreign relations US Senate 111 Congress first sess ebook (Worldcat database).
Dec 2009 – In Khost, 7 CIA agents were killed by an officer from Jordan. (Playing to the edge. Michael V Hayden (c)2016 US).
31 Dec 2009 – A Jordanian doctor and secret agent, killed seven CIA employees in Afghanistan. Humam al Balawi was a Palestinian Jordanian. (The new spymasters. Stephen Grey (c)2015 UK).
2010 – Afghanistan a cultural and political history. Thomas Barfield. Google books.
2010 – American war machine, deep politics the CIA and global drug connection and the road to Afghanistan. Peter Dale Scott. Laham and Rowman, Littlefield pub (Worldcat database).
Feb 2010 – The death of seven CIA and contractors in a suicide bombing in Khost Afghanistan. (Playing to the edge. Michael V Hayden (c)2016 US).
2011 – The global Afghan opium trade, a threat assessment Hakan Demirbuken Hayder Mili Renee Le Cussan UN ebook Vienna Austria (Worldcat database).
2011 – The nexus international terrorism and drug trafficking from Afghanistan. Frank Shanty ebook Santa Barbara Calif Praeger security int (Worldcat database).
2011 – Terrorism and drug trafficking from Afghanistan. Frank Shanty ebook Santa Barbara California Prager. Worldcat database.
29 April 2011 - CIA as Christians in action. Intel gathering. SEALS at Camp Alpha Bagram air base in Afghanistan. “Operation Spear” to capture and kill bin Laden. Intel hard drives, DVDs, usb and papers. The USS Carl Vinson, with bin Laden’s body in the south Arabian sea. Identified by biometrics and DNA, he was buried at sea. Apparently bin laden had no electricity or internet. (Seal team six. Howard E Wasdin. ©2011 US UK).
23 June 2011 – Barack Obama says 33,000 troops will leave next year. Afghan withdrawl. The Guardian UK.
25 June 2012 – Australian soldiers take aim at Afghan opium growers. Max Blenkin. The Mercury Hobart Tasmania. Afghan heroin goes to Australia and Russia.
27 Jan 2013 – 20 policemen were killed in a series of bomb attacks in Kandahar. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 27 Jan 2016).
Dec 2013 – Ancient Ghazni and the tomb of Biruni. Afghanistan explorer of the middle ages. Ghazni and the place of Biruni's tomb. The 13th century manuscript of al-Biruni's navigations. (History today. Dec 2013 UK).
26 March 2014 - http://americanfreepress.net/is-cia-fueling-new-u-s-drug-epidemic-using-cheap-heroin-from-afghanistan-cia-obama-team-up-to-hide-darkest-secrets/
22 Oct 2014 – Inspector general, new opium highs, corruption in Afghanistan. US news and world report. Illegal drug trade, billions from the US.
14 Jan 2015 – ISIS has set up base in Afghanistan, less than 3 months after British troops left. Southern Afghanistan, Mullah Abdul Rauf is recruiting fighters. Daily mail.
25 Jan 2015 – Dianne Feinstein said the rapid pull out of Afghanistan will help an al Qaeda resurgence. Pam Key. Breitbart.
30 Jan 2015 – Three Americans were killed in a shooting at Kabul airport. Three American contractors were killed in a shooting on a military site. The Express. New York Times.
27 Feb 2015 – More than 160 people have been killed in Afghanistan avalanches. Villages in north Afghanistan were burying more than 180 people killed in avalanches. The Indian. Stuff.co.nz.
12 May 2015 – A 6.9 earthquake in Afghanistan. About the same time as a 7.4 earthquake in Nepal. Both quakes were felt in India. Hindustan Times.
28 July 2015 – 21 people were killed in a gun battle in northern Afghanistan. Washington Post. New York Times. Kabul. The gun battle between rival warlords in the northern Baghlai province.
31 July 2015 – MOD says laws must change after UK Afghan detention policies ruled illegal. The Telegraph UK. Twitter.
6 Sept 2015 – Young school girls were attacked with gas and acid in Afghanistan. 30 girls were sent to hospital, it was the 4th such incident in a week. Four female teachers and 26 students were hospitalised. School in Herat. (Gary Walton G+. The Big wobble).
9 Oct 2015 – Your Anon facts. Twitter. Earthquake 4.8 in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan.
10 Oct 2015 – Fresh clashes erupt in Afghanistan's Kunduz. Security forces and the Tailban clash in Kunduz city. Xinhua.
16 Oct 2015 – CIA and west torture alleged. ACLU says the psychologists, James Elmer Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen.. Post 9/11 torture. Psychological torture. Stuff.co.nz.
16 Oct 2015 – Australia to join the US in keeping troops in Afghanistan. Sydney Morning Herald. David Wroe. The Taliban in Kunduz.
17 Oct 2015 – Russia putting guards in Tajikistan to fend of ISIS. Russian defence fight terrorism by putting guards on the border between Afganistan and Tajikistan. General Yuri Borisov. Before its news.
17 Oct 2015 – Putin warns of spillover from Afghan fighting. Astana Kabul. Putin says violence in Afghanistan could spill over into ex Soviet states. The Nation. NDTV.
17 Oct 2015 – US tanks attack the MSF hospital in Kunduz Afghanistan to destroy evidence. Twitter. RT.
17 Oct 2015 – US tanks attack the MSF hospital in Kunduz to destroy evidence. Twitter. Before its news.
20 Oct 2015 – The US puts Taliban leader on the terrorism list. Torek Agha. Taliban. The long war journal.
22 Oct 2015 – Russia eyes Afghanistan, again. Visits to Moscow by Afghan leaders and a NATO pullout of Afghanistan. Communities digital news.
18 Nov 2015 – A 4.3 earthquake in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan. Twitter. Earthquake reports.
2 Dec 2015 – NATO will keep 12,000 troops in Afghanistan through 2016. Belfast Telegraph.
5 Dec 2015 – A CIA paramilitary unit called the Khost protection force KPF, in eastern Afghanistan, civilian killings and torture called counter terrorism, mercenary killings. A new report. Taliban and al Qaeda terrroists. Press TV.
10 Dec 2015 – Dozens of people were killed during the weekend. A Taliban attack on Kandahar airport in southern Afghanistan. Helmand province falls. The Globe and Mail.
12 Dec 2015 – Car bomb rips through Kabul. A terrorist attack close to the Spanish embassy. Taliban suicide attack. Jakarta Post. Reuters. CNN.
16 Dec 2015 – Taliban attacks in Afghanistan spike in 2015. ISIS growing stronger, Pentagon. RT. Reuters. https://www.rt.com/usa/326117-afghanistan-security-taliban-pentagon/
16 Dec 2015 – US military says al Qaeda is in Afghan east and north east. The long war journal. Bill Roggio. http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/12/us-military-insists-al-qaeda-is-concentrated-in-afghan-east-and-northeast.php
17 Dec 2015 – The Long war journal. The US, Taliban and al Qaeda. Bill Roggio. Thomas Joscelyn. Ayman al Zawahiri al Qaeda leader. Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour. http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/12/us-continues-to-push-for-negotiations-with-taliban-despite-direct-ties-to-al-qaeda.php
18 Dec 2015 – Pentagon chief says the Afghan war is far from over. Ash Carter says 10,000 US troops will stay in Afghanistan through most of 2016. Corruption. Afghan pres Ashraf Ghani. VOA. Ayaz Gul in Islamabad. http://www.voanews.com/content/us-defense-secretary-makes-unannounced-stop-in-afghanistan/3108473.html
23 Dec 2015 – A suicide bombing in Afghanistan kills 6 US NATO workers. Wikinews.
25 Dec 2015 – A 6.3 earthquake. At least 30 people were injured 200 miles from the epicenter. Near borders Tajikistan and Pakistan. Greg Botelho and Michael Martinez. CNN. Injured in Peshawar Pakistan. The Watchers. 6.9 earthquake. Hindu Kush region Afghanistan. Aftershock from a recent 8 earthquake in the same area. http://thewatchers.adorraeli.com/2015/12/25/powerful-m6-9-earthquake-hits-hindu-kush-region-afghanistan/
31 Dec 2015 – US General likely to seek more troops for Afghanistan. Gen John Campbell. 9,800 US troops currently. Dawn. Pakistan. USA Today. http://www.dawn.com/news/1229806/us-general-likely-to-seek-more-troops-for-afghanistan
2 Jan 2016 – A 4.6 earthquake in the Hindu Kush region. Twitter. Earthquake report.
4 Jan 2016 – Explosions heard as gunmen attack the Indian consulate in Mazari-i-Sharif Afghanistan. http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/75602172/explosions-gunshots-at-indian-consulate-in-afghan-city-mazarisharif
13 Jan 2016 – The Pakistani consulate in Jalalabad has been sealed off after a suicide bomber killed himself and two others, injured 2 more people. Radio NZ. BBC UK.
19 Jan 2016 - http://thediplomat.com/2016/01/confirmed-first-four-a-29-light-attack-aircraft-arrive-in-afghanistan/
21 Jan 2016 – 7 people killed in a suicide bombing. Tolo news private TV channel. Daily Times. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/region/21-Jan-2016/seven-dead-as-suicide-bomber-hits-afghan-tv-channel-bus
27 Jan 2016 – A 5.2 earthquake near the border with Tajikistan. Sputnik. Twitter.
8 Feb 2016 – A 4.1 earthquake near Hindu Kush region Afghanistan. My earthquake alerts. Twitter.
14 Feb 2016 - http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/02/afghan-civilian-casualties-hit-record-11000-2015-160214071436972.html
28 Feb 2016 - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-28/afghan-blasts-kill-25-jeopardising-peace-talks/7205738
29 Feb 2016 - http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/02/29/justice-delayed-for-army-sergeant-who-defended-afghan-boy-from-rapist.html?intcmp=ob_article_sidebar_video&intcmp=obnetwork
2 March 2016 - http://www.voanews.com/content/nato-command-changes-in-afghanistan/3216366.html
3 March 2016 - http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/suicide-bombers-hit-indian-consulate/article8306478.ece
10 April 2016 – Earthquake. India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. A 6.6 quake. 3 people were reported dead. Shaking buildings. Panic and power outages. The Extinction protocol. Hindustan Times.
23 April 2016 – Death finds Afghan refugee in Christchurch New Zealand. A 2 year old boy from Afghanistan choked to death on food. NZ Herald.
6 June 2016 – Corruption and greed in the Afghan gem trade. BBC UK. 7 people were killed as the Taliban gun attacked an Afghan courthouse. The Sun Daily. The Guardian UK. Mining of lapis lazuli helps fund the Taliban.
7 June 2016 – Sputnik. Graveyard of empires. America's endless wars in Afghanistan. Taliban, Osama wars. 7 Oct 2001 Afghanistan and Pakistan.
7 June 2016 – Hundreds of Afghans attend the funeral of a slain journalist, killed in a Taliban rocket attack. VOA.
8 June 2016 – Griffin Walker. G+. Pakstan imposes restrictions at the Afghan border, stranding thousands of people. Rferl-org.
10 June 2016 – Wall street journal. US eases restrictions on the fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
12 June 2016 – Stars and stripes. Eltaf Najafizada, Bloomberg, Reuters. Al-Qaeda is backing the Taliban. Obama.
15 June 2016 – Stars and stripes. Tara Copp. He US air force is going to increase airstrikes on Afghanistan.
18 June 2016 – Taliban. Paedophile cops in Afghanistan. Before its news. Police rape boys.
20 June 2016 – Yahoo news. Taliban suicide bomber killed at least 14 people in Kabul. Explosions on a bus carrying workers from Nepal.
29 June 2016 – New Zealand team in Afghan village. Ryan Dunlop. Timaru Herald NZ.
29 June 2016 – Radio NZ. Security forces in Ashraf Ghani, Sex abuse of boys by the police. Rape s;lavery of boys by police in Afghanistan.
7 July 2016 – Frank Take G+. Anonymous global state. No end to Afghan war. Obama slows US withdrawl, the poppy fields and minerals. Daily Mail.
1 Aug 2016 – Press TV. G+. A huge truck bomb exploded in Kabul. Knocking out electricity and the internet. Kabul goes dark.
4 Aug 2016 – Twitter. Earthquakes today. A 4.6 earthquake near Jabal os Saraj. Seisom EMSC A 4.6 earthquake Hindu Kush.
8 Aug 2016 – World news posts. Twitter. Americans and Australiasn kidnapped at gunpoint in Kabul. Gunmen wearing security force uniforms. A series of abductions. Robinspost.com.
9 Aug 2016 - RT. Twitter. ISIS and the Taliban. A safe haven for terrorists, reports out of Afghanistan. Youtube.
17 Aug 2016 - Twitter. Earthquake report. A 4.5 earthquake in Hindukush region.
17 Aug 2016 - Twitter. Earthquake today. A 4.5 earthquake near Jarm in Afghanistan.
18 Aug 2016 – Blacklisted news. The US has nearly 30,000 defence contractors in Afghanistan.
24 Aug 2016 - Twitter. Anon sly team news. A US soldier was killed in an anti Taliban mission, NATO. RT int. Helmand province, another was injured.
25 Aug 2016 – Twitter. Benjamin Weinthal. Christian Thels. 12 people were killed in an attack on an American uni in Kabul. RFE.
27 Aug 2016 – The Taliban take over areas in eastern Afghanistan. The Long war journal. Bill Roggio.
2024 – US troops may stay in Afghanistan until 2024. Daily Telegraph. 19 Aug 2011.
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