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U.S. civilian experts train for the real Afghanistan...up from 320 in January, but that is still a small number for a country so shattered by war. The U.S. Embassy in Kabul has asked for at least 300 more. For 57-year-old Kathy Gunderman, going to Afghanistan is almost a calling and she hopes her... In this article: Afghanistan, U.S., Thomson Reuters, Hamid Karzai, Barack Obama, Small business, Cholera, and NYSE |
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CBS News | November 12, 2009
Obama's Hesitancy On War Buildup Sends Messages
...consultations with officials in Germany, France and Russia. State Department spokesman Ian C. Kelly said Holbrooke would then attend President Hamid Karzai's inauguration in Kabul. Obama is considering options that include adding 30,000 or...
In this article: Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, Taliban, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hamid Karzai, U.S., White House, and Washington
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Reuters | November 03, 2009
U.S. presses Karzai to reach new deal with allies
...message to Karzai this week, and White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Tuesday that Obama, the U.S. ambassador in Kabul and the State Department were "actively engaged" with Karzai's government about establishing a compact to...
In this article: Hamid Karzai, United States, Barack Obama, Taliban, Thomson Reuters, White House, Revenue, Small business, and Robert Gibbs
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CNN | November 12, 2009
Karl Eikenberry, Obama's man in Afghanistan
...according to his State Department biography. His long military career included time in Kabul as U.S. security coordinator and chief of the Office of Military Cooperation. "Afghanistan has been at the center of my career since...
In this article: Barack Obama, Afghanistan, U.S., Hamid Karzai, and State Department
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Not to be confused with Greater Kabul, the province of Kabul City
Kabul (Pashto/کابل Kābul; IPA: //kɑː'bol//; archaic Caubul), is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan, with a population of over 2.5 million, and is located in the province of Greater Kabul. The exact number cannot be determined but the total provincial population of Kabul is anywhere between 3.5 to almost 5 million people.
It is an economic and cultural centre, situated 5,900 feet (1,800 m) above sea level in a narrow valley, wedged between the Hindu Kush mountains along the Kabul River. The city is linked with Ghazni, Kandahar, Herat and Mazar-e Sharif via a circular highway that stretches across the country. It is also the start of the main road to Jalalabad and, further on, Peshawar, Pakistan.
Kabul's main products include munitions, cloth, furniture and beet sugar, but, since 1978, a state of nearly continuous war has limited the economic productivity of the city. Economic productivity has improved since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan 2001.
Kabul is over 3,000 years old, many empires have long fought over the city for its strategic location along the trade routes of Southern and Central Asia. In 1504, Babur captured Kabul and used it as his headquarters until 1526, before his conquest of India. In 1776, Timur Shah Durrani made it the capital of modern Afghanistan. Since the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s until very recent, the city has been constantly a target of destruction by rebels or militants. It is currently in its early phases of reconstruction.
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