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Special forces in remote areas garnering support for Karzai.(The Dallas Morning News)
BAMIYAN, Afghanistan_The role that elite U.S. Army Special Forces are playing in the hunt for Osama bin Laden has been showcased in a spate of recent news reports from eastern Afghanistan. But here in the remote reaches of central Afghanistan, the publicity shy American soldiers are quietly pursuing a different mission, cultivating friends for the United States and shoring up support for the interim Afghan government of Hamid Karzai.
It is a mission with potentially significant strategic implications.
Speaking in their first interview with a U.S. news organization, seven U.S. Special Forces soldiers in war-ravaged Bamiyan province described to The Dallas Morning News their behind-the-scenes work in channeling humanitarian aid to hungry and homeless Afghans.
What the U.S. soldiers said they couldn't discuss is the military component of their mission in Bamiyan. Foreign aid workers in the area, however, said that component of the U.S. mission includes training the armed forces of Gov. Muhammed Khalili and mopping up remaining pockets of ...
- Taliban rejoiced in demolition of sacred Bamiyan sculptures.
- News wire article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) November 27, 2001 700+ words
...the cave-pocked cliffs of Bamiyan where the Buddhas once towered...giant Buddhas, the village of Bamiyan stretches roofless and in...along with a team of U.S. Special Forces. The U.S. soldiers, quietly...of the beautiful things of Bamiyan was gone." Khalili hoped...
- Taliban rejoiced in demolition of sacred Bamiyan sculptures.(Chicago Tribune)
- News wire article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Salopek, Paul December 5, 2001 700+ words
...the cave-pocked cliffs of Bamiyan where the Buddhas once towered...giant Buddhas, the village of Bamiyan stretches roofless and in...along with a team of U.S. Special Forces. The U.S. soldiers, quietly...of the beautiful things of Bamiyan was gone." Khalili hoped...
- Afghans in rugged Bamiyan region fight starvation, bitter cold, tribalism.(The...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Jones, Gregg March 1, 2002 700+ words
...here in the mountains of Afghanistan's Bamiyan province. That was before Sanowbar Hussein...Sanowbar fights for her life in the primitive Bamiyan hospital. The sad saga of Muhammed and...homes by hunger and violence. Yet here in Bamiyan province, where the recently toppled...
- Afghans in rugged Bamiyan region fight starvation, bitter cold, tribalism.
- Newspaper article from: The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) February 4, 2002 700+ words
...here in the mountains of Afghanistan's Bamiyan province. That was before Sanowbar Hussein...Sanowbar fights for her life in the primitive Bamiyan hospital. The sad saga of Muhammed and...homes by hunger and violence. Yet here in Bamiyan province, where the recently toppled...
- In Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley, peace and a woman rule.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor Sappenfield, Mark October 11, 2007 700+ words
...writer of The Christian Science Monitor Bamiyan, Afghanistan -- There is a check post at the entrance to the Bamiyan Valley - one of the scores of shacks...closer inspection, but no place more than Bamiyan, where history and geology conspire...
- Taliban shuts off Bamiyan, threatens Mainichi reporter.
- Newspaper article from: Mainichi Daily News March 20, 2001 700+ words
BAMIYAN, Afghanistan -- The fundamentalist Taliban rulers have cut off Bamiyan -- where they have obliterated two giant Buddhist...March 15, our party took a mountainous route to Bamiyan from the Afghan capital Kabul trying to cover the...
- Bamiyan pays the Afghan peace penalty.(WORLD)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor Sappenfield, Mark October 24, 2007 700+ words
...Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Bamiyan, Afghanistan -- The situation in Bamiyan is simple enough for Mohammed Arif Arifie to...sentences spoken between sips of tea. First, Bamiyan is so safe that the New Zealand troops posted...
- In the shadows of Bamiyan's Buddhas, it's showtime: Near Afghanistan's...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor May 24, 2002 700+ words
...site of the destroyed Buddha statues of Bamiyan earlier this month for an evening of short...the background are the former Buddhas of Bamiyan, the gigantic 115- and 175-foot statues...the Taliban probably had designs on the Bamiyan Valley's lush farmlands. Local aid...
- Bamiyan's Buddhas remembered; Curator says art an all-too-common.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire September 11, 2002 700+ words
...that were carved into the cliff side of Bamiyan, central Afghanistan, despite vocal...occupied Europe. But in the case of the Bamiyan Buddhas, the destruction was no accident...interview with The Korea Herald. "The Bamiyan crisis," as he called it, "was a political...
- Buster brings the house down in battered Bamiyan.
- Newspaper article from: South China Morning Post May 20, 2002 700+ words
...Byline: AFGHANISTAN Borzou Daragahi in Bamiyan It's that scene where Buster Keaton...site of the destroyed Buddha statues of Bamiyan for an evening of short films. "Everything...the background are the former Buddhas of Bamiyan, the gigantic 35-metre and 53-metre...
Source: HighBeam Research, Special forces in remote areas garnering support for Karzai.(The...