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Taliban fighters on a hillside at Maydan Shahr in Wardak province, west of Kabul. (AFP/Getty)
[66] Human Rights Watch, “Crisis of Impunity,” Ibid.
[67] Edwards, David B. Before Taliban: Geneologies of the Afghan Jihad (Los Angeles: University of California, 2002), Kindle edition, Ch 4.
[68] Matte, Ibid.
[69] Coll, Steve, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (New York: Penguin Books, 2005), Kindle edition, Ch. 14.
[70] Edwards, Before Taliban, Ibid.
[71] Ibid. Ch. 8.
[72] Federal News Service, “Clinton Administration’s Robin Raphel 1996 Press Briefing Regarding the Taliban,” Free Republic, September 28, 2001. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/535291/posts.
[73] United Nations, “Security Council Denounces Violations of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Afghanistan, Calls on Parties to Cease Hostilities” United Nations Press Release, October 22, 1996. http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/1996/19961022.sc6282.html.
[74] Boone, Jon, “Worse Than the Taliban: New Law Rolls Back Rights for Afghan Women,” The Gaurdian, March 30, 2009. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/31/hamid-karzai-afghanistan-law
[75] Sharani, M. Nazif, “King Aman-allah of Afghanistan’s Failed Nation-Building and Its Aftermath,” Iranian Studies, Vol. 38, No. 4. (December 2005): 662, JSTOR.
[76] Cordesman, Ibid.
[77] Frontline, “Timeline of Women’s Rights in Afghanistan,” PBS, October 25, 2011, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/women-war-and-peace/uncategorized/timeline-of-womens-rights-in-afghanistan/
[78] Zaeef, My Life, Ibid.
[79] Federal News Service, Ibid.
[80] Bush, Ibid.
[81] USAID, “USAID Afghanistan: Sectors,” USAID, accessed April 15, 2013, http://afghanistan.usaid.gov/en/programs
[82] Zaeef, “5 Min.” Ibid.
[83] Salarzai, Khan Wali, “Kunar Taliban Support Education,” Pajwok, August 31, 2011, http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2011/08/31/kunar-taliban-support-education-process
[84] Kalsoom, “Swat Girls’ School Close in Response to Taliban Ban,” Changing Up Pakistan, January 16, 2009, http://changinguppakistan.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/swat-girls-schools-close-in-response-to-taliban-ban/
[85] Griffith, Ibid.
[86] Ben-Veniste, Richard, et al, “The 9/11 Commission Report: The Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States,” U.S. Government, July 22, 2004, p. 146: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-911REPORT/pdf/GPO-911REPORT.pdf
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