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thabet

08:12:51 pm on September 5, 2008 | # | |
Tags: afghanistan, Brave Warriors Of Afghanistan, collateral damage, taliban

While the Taliban use their media operation to highlight civilian casualties caused by foreign forces, they also deliberately target civilians — as with the recent murder of three Western women aid workers and their Afghan colleague just an hour from Kabul. Much less reported internationally are the Afghans who work for international NGOs or the government in rural areas and who often face roadblocks where they are checked for any sign of working with foreigners.

One journalist from an insurgency-hit province, whom I recently met, has moved to Kabul because of the relentless pressure. Among other incidents, he says some pupils he interviewed at the opening of a new government school were killed soon afterward for taking part in the event.
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