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Talented Afghan Women Leaving Country and Contributing to Brain Drain

"A brain drain of bright young women is already taking place in Afghanistan... more

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Another Girls School in Afghanistan Comes Under Poison Attack

"Afghan officials say more than 120 schoolgirls and three teachers have been poisoned at a school in the northern Takhar Province.

The attack was blamed on fundamentalist radicals who used an unidentified toxic powder to contaminate the air at the school.

Many victims reportedly lost consciousness and were hospitalized.

One of the children, Samera, told Reuters they originally thought the school's water had been poisoned.

"We saw one of the students was unconscious and in bad condition," she said. "We were told not to drink water but we had already drunk the water and we became unconscious too."

Last month, 150 girls were poisoned in Takhar when they drank contaminated water. And last week, more than 200 boys fell ill at a school in Khost Province.

The Education Ministry reported this month that 550 Afghan schools have been closed down because of security concerns, affecting 300,000 students in 11 provinces.

A spokesman for Afghanistan's intelligence agency said the Taliban was trying to make families afraid to send their children to school ahead of the scheduled 2014 withdrawal of international combat troops.

The Taliban has not claimed responsibility for the school attacks, but they have carried out violent raids in Takhar Province.

When in power from 1996 to 2001, the Taliban regime banned education for girls. Since having been driven from power, Taliban fighters and their sympathizers have carried out numerous attacks against schools.

In addition to poisonings, they have targeted schools with rockets and mortars, have burned them down, and have thrown acid in the faces of schoolgirls. There have also been reports of Taliban fighters beheading teachers who work at schools for girls.

The UN Afghanistan Assistance Mission (UNAMA) earlier this month condemned the attacks as a violation of the right of Afghan children to be educated.

UNAMA called on the Afghan government and the NATO-led international coalition to "ensure that effective security measures are in place to protect schools, students, and teachers.""Afghan officials say more than 120 schoolgirls and three teachers have been... more

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Afghan Woman Whose Nose Was Hacked Off Starts New Life in the US

"Nose hacked off, mutilated ears hidden by her dark hair, it was the magazine cover that horrified the world.
But for Aesha Mohammadzai, the Afghan girl tortured by her husband for attempting to escape their abusive forced marriage, that extraordinary and harrowing Time magazine cover was just the start of the story.
Four years on, she faces a new battle – a struggle to put the disturbing experiences behind her as she attempts to make a new life for herself in America.

Aesha, won political asylum in 2011, having fled to the U.S. a year earlier, aged just 18, after being promised reconstructive surgery.
She arrived without speaking a word of English and illiterate in her mother tongue of Pashto.

Since then she has undergone pioneering reconstructive surgery to give her a prosthetic nose and been given the education denied women back in her homeland under the Taliban.
However, it appears the psychological scars from her ordeal have proven harder to heal.
Those who have become close to Aesha have spoken of her displaying volatile mood swings – oscillating between violent tantrums and displaying deep affection to people around her

Her plastic surgery had to be delayed because it was thought she was still not yet emotionally stable to cope with the painful and lengthy surgery required.
Psychologist Shiphra Bakhchi, 31, who has helped treat the 22-year-old for post-traumatic stress disorder believes the trauma of her disfigurement may have caused deeper mental scars than physical ones.
‘I really hope at some point she’ll be a functioning young lady that had a terrible trauma,’ the private practitioner told CNN.
When Aesha was 12, her father promised her in marriage to a Taliban fighter to pay a debt. She was handed over to his family who abused her and forced her to sleep in the stable with the animals.
The UN estimates that nearly 90 per cent of Afghanistan's women suffer from some sort of domestic abuse.
When she attempted to flee, she was caught and her nose and ears were hacked off by her husband as punishment.
'When they cut off my nose and ears, I passed out. In the middle of the night it felt like there was cold water in my nose.
'I opened my eyes and I couldn't even see because of all the blood,' she told CNN reporter Atia Abawi.

Left for dead in the mountains, she crawled to her grandfather's house and her father managed to get her to an American medical facility, where medics cared for her for ten weeks.
They then transported Aesha to a secret shelter in Kabul and in August 2010, she was flown to the U.S. by the Grossman Burn Foundation to stay with a host family.
She was taken in by a charity in New York called Women for Afghan Women who supported her and helped pay for her eduction.""Nose hacked off, mutilated ears hidden by her dark hair, it was the magazine... more

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The Taliban is Becoming a Drug Cartel

are seeing more profits in selling drugs

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The FBI Probes Itself for Leaks

will have to come to the end of the matter...

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Fantastic video US Marine Engineers destroy Taliban IED factory

The sappers from the US Marines pour it on a Taliban factory that makes IEDs.... more

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Scottish Nurse Khalil Dale Becomes 3rd Western Beheading Victim in Pakistan; Red Cross Halts Work

"THE Red Cross has halted most of its work in Pakistan following the death of... more

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Classified Woman - Trailer

Published on Apr 16, 2012 by Sibel Edmonds In this startling new memoir, Sibel... more

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Pentagon signals "acute" problems in Afghanistan

The Pentagon has issued a warnin that the Taliban and Al Qaeda are gaining strength in... more

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America’s most Wanted Terrorists

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Will al Qaeda Ever Die?

they will never die completely but their back has definitely been broken...

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Intense fighting at Combat Outpost in Afghanistan

New video showing intense fighting at a Combat Outpost in Afghanistan... more

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Obama Administration Agrees to American Military Staying Beyond 2014 in Afghanistan

"The U.S. and Afghanistan completed a draft agreement on a strategic partnership... more

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News Alert: First video of Taliban Spring offensive on U.S. troops in Afghanistan

These are the first images of the Taliban's Spring offensive on U.S. troops in... more

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News Alert: Taliban launches Spring offensive against U.S. troops in Afghanistan

The Taliban have launches a series of attacks on U.S. military installations and... more

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What's Political about the Weather? Absurdity Today with Julianna Forlano

Absurdity Today! Formerly The Forlano Factor and before that The Ironic News Report!... more

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What's Political about the Weather? Absurdity Today with Julianna Forlano

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Afghan massacre: Kandahar families given compensation

Afghan families who lost relatives in the Kandahar massacre have been paid... more

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Afghanistan: Another NATO massacre

NATO calls him a "rogue" soldier who snapped after having a breakdown and... more

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How to Save Two Billion Dollars & Tens of Thousands of Lives

This video is my proposal to the 2012 Presidential Candidates, Congressional... more

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