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Afghanistan: Afghan Taliban
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Afghanistan "has been hit by some of the heaviest fighting since the US-led invasion in 2001 to oust" the Taliban, the BBC reported May 18, 2006. "So far this year there have been at least 20 suicide attacks compared with 17 for the whole of 2005 and five in 2004."
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Afghanistan, already shredded by such man_made disasters as decades of war and years of Taliban rule, is suffering a major natural disaster in the form of severe drought and famine. Some 3.8 million Afghans were already dependent on food aid from the international agencies that withdrew after the September 11 attacks. Without new shipments, 320,000 Afghans will run out of food within a week; by December 1.6 million will exhaust their food supply, said UN World Food Program spokesman Khaled Adly.
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With the overthrow of the Taliban and the democratic election of a president, Afghanistan is taking the first steps to recovery. Girls are re-entering classrooms closed to them for the last five years. Women are resuming their places in the workplace and academia. Music, once banned, is again heard in the bazaars.
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From high over the remote border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, U.S. spy cameras spotted a group of Taliban commanders leading a column of scores of men into Afghanistan several months ago. To avoid detection, the men--clad in rags and wearing plastic bags on their feet instead of shoes--were walking in a double-file line that stretched for almost a mile. U.S. officials believe these peasants were recruits. "It was clear that this was the fodder for the suicide bombs," says one official.
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After a bloody war in Afghanistan that lasted more than a decade, a group intent on establishing a new society based on Islamic law came to power in the mid-1990s. The group was known as the Taliban, which means “students” in Persian.
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In a later era, this one under Taliban rule, the SERVE Solar Project, operating in Peshawar, Pakistan, moved its operations to Jalalabad, Afghanistan, in order to serve the population of refugees then returning to Afghanistan, after the departure of the Soviets. SERVE is a British humanitarian agency with projects in health, disability services, relief, and environmental issues. Its work in Pakistan began in refugee camps filled by an Afghan population in 1980. While working on other problems, SERVE discovered the severity of fuel shortages and based on that need, developed a large scale and very successful solar cooking project (see the report on Pakistan). Refugees who moved back took their box cookers with them and demand in Afghanistan was substantial. Initally, SERVE trucked box cookers to Kabul for sale in the market places.
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