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Yes, there were females in underground schools. I'm speaking of regular, authorized schools. Suggest you look at the web-sites of the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan and DACAAR. Both were building and operating schools for boys and girls in Afghanistan throughout the 1990s. The Taliban (a group of raving loony's if there ever was one - and I'm speaking from personal experience from 1999 - 2001) allowed education of girls as long as you didn't rub it in their faces. Their "official policy" was that girls education would have to wait until they had finished "liberating the country from the godless." The Swedish Committee even claimed that in 2000 there were more girls in school than there ever had been before in the history of Afghanistan. Hugh Fenton |
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"Kevan Smith" /\/\ wrote in message ... On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 02:55:32 GMT, "Pete" from Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com wrote: And given the events and aftermath of 9/11...we had no real choice but to go in with force. You're forgetting that the Taliban government offered to turn over Bin Laden if the Bush regime presented them their evidence linking him to 911. The Bush regime refused, and that was the end of the diplomacy. We had the real choice to continue the diplomacy. Perhaps they should have asked the Pakistani ISI (Military secret police) to hand him over. It ALMOST ceases to amuse me that the US is in bed with the Pakistani general that invaded Kashmir and was one of the biggest Taliban supporters in the late 1990s. Hugh Fenton |
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Actually the situation was pretty good for anyone under Ahmad Masood, he ran the Afghani version of a free state from the protection of the Panjshir valley, complete with schools, heath care and other services. He keept the Taliban at bay and united many of the tribes all this time without any western help. With help he probably could have taken back the entire country, but unfortunately the only foreign aid at the time came from the US and went to the Taliban. Masood was assasinated by the Taliban two days before the Sept. 11th attacks. If only the west had heeded his warnings and he was alive today, the US would have a powerful allie in the region who subscribed to many western ideals but also had a lifetime of middle east fighting under his belt. I question if there is another man like that in the entire country. -- Ummm, definitely a great man - and by far the best that Afghanistan has produced. However his acceptability was greatly lessened by the destruction of Kabul during the fighting between the Hezb Islami and the Massoud forces. Destroying a city doesn't make friends whether you think you are in the right or not. Also perhaps you are forgetting the funding source for the Northern Alliance was Opium/Heroin - even after Taliban banned production. Hugh Fenton |
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Chris Phillipo wrote:
I don't know too many people "controlled by fear", personally. Concerned, maybe.... big difference. I'm concerned about cars, but if I was "controlled by fear" I'd drive a Hummer instead of riding a bike, f'rinstance. Individuals never see themselves as part of the big picture. From inside their gated subdivision community or security guard monitored apartment building they are all going to tell you that they aren't scared of anything. But ask them if they go down town to a bank machine alone at night or if would stop to help someone with dark skin broken down on the road in Detroit. I guess you live in a pretty paranoid town - sorry to hear that. Does everyone in your area live behind a gate in quaking fear? I don't think I know anyone around here who meets that description, FWIW. I'm a rock climber. When I'm well above my last anchor and reaching for a sketchy handhold, am I "controlled by fear" or am I just using caution appropriate to the situation? I might even go so far as to look around when using an ATM in a major city (something I've done in cities all over the world, many larger than NYC)... does that mean I'm "controlled by fear"? No one who fits that description would EVER venture out on a bike under any circumstances, so I think you're preaching to the wrong choir... ;-) Mark Hickey Habanero Cycles http://www.habcycles.com Home of the $695 ti frame |
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On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 14:21:46 -0300, Chris Phillipo
wrote: I have to go see if the US/Israel world domination force has killed anyone else who might threaten their not scared of anything way of life. Did you just claim a "US/Israeli World Domination Force"? I guess we know who lives in fear now. Firmly in touch with reality, -- Scott Johnson "The policy of Saddam Hussein's Iraq is to execute the children of political dissidents in front of their parents. How sympathetic of you to expect the subjects of such a government to effect regime change on their own." -redublican |
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