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Afghanistan seeks to dilute foreign anti-graft role
Reuters - Sep 9, 2010
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan will limit foreign involvement in two major anti-crime units in a move likely to worry its Western backers ... Mac Deford: 9/11 and Afghanistan Nine Years On
Freepress Online - Sep 9, 2010
But if the deepening economic malaise the country is going through is not Obama's fault, the war in Afghanistan is now clearly and rightly perceived as ... Obama Condemns Plan to Burn Koran
New York Times - Sep 9, 2010
General David Petraeus, the American commander in Afghanistan, earlier this week said that the burning would put American troops there directly in harm's ...

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Afghanistan books

Lonely Planet Afghanistan

by: Paul Clammer
Discover Afghanistan

Blink as you emerge from the cliffs at the top of one of Bamiyan's enormous Buddha niches, p.117
Stop pedalling for a moment and drift in your swan-shaped pedalo on the waters of Band-e Amir, p.122
Utter a great smoking sigh of contentment as you puff on a sheesha at Mirwais Shandaiz, p.194

In This Guide:

Chapters on working and safety in Afghanistan, with advice from resident expats.
Specialist contributors write on journalism, women, and trekking in the Wakhan and the Afghan Pamir.
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To Afghanistan and Back

by: Ted Rall
Basically a graphic novel with alternating chapters of prose. Rall's experience in Afghanistan is harrowing but humourus at the same time. This is a great book for anyone interested in the Central Asian region.
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Afghanistan: Hope and Beauty in a War-torn Land

by: Ursula Meissner
Photo-journalist Ursula Meissner has created an extremely beautiful and timely book which is very affordable ($35 list). My copy came with a sticker indicating $1 goes to ADRA making this an even more worthwhile purchase. There are hundreds of amazing photos, many of them full format landscapes of Afghans in real life settings all captured in vivid colors amidst scenery that belies the war torn chaos of their current lives. FYI, the "search inside" function is fully operational for this book on the Amazon page and I urge you to use.
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The Light Garden of the Angel King: Travels in Afghanistan with Bruce Chatwin

by: Peter Levi
Peter Levi is himself a remarkable figure: An English Jesuit who is a poet, art historian, classicist,and sometime archaeologist. "Light Garden of the Angel King" is Levi's account of his travels in Afghanistan in the late 1960s as he looked for remnants of Greek presence and examined the influences of Hellenistic art, and it's a wonderfully crafted piece. Spare, elegant, softly ironic, and informed by a sensitive intelligence and a deep knowledge of the classical world. Levi is able to evoke not only the age of Alexander's Bactrian conquests but the beauties and complexities of Islamic architecture and poetry and the travails of learning Persian.
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