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Friday, October 31, 2008

CorpWatch and KPFA Radio Launch "Afghanistan 2008: Seven Years After the Taliban" Multimedia Project Collaboration

(Berkeley, CA - October 31, 2008) Seven years after the U.S. invaded
Afghanistan to oust the Taliban, the country faces an increasingly
uncertain future. Award-winning investigative journalists Pratap
Chatterjee and Nobu Sakamoto, reported from Afghanistan immediately
following the invasion, and now return to the country as part of a
CorpWatch/KPFA Radio collaboration to take stock.

A suicide bombing deep inside the heart of an Afghan ministry in Kabul has raised concerns about the ability of the country’s new security forces to tackle the Taliban, the country’s former fundamentalist rulers who were ousted by the U.S. in 2001.

One person was killed and nine wounded on Thursday morning at the Ministry of Information and Culture in central Kabul in an explosion believed to have been set off by a man disguised as a police officer. Part of the Ministry wall was destroyed in the blast.

Photo by Nobu Sakamoto from Afghanistan
(copyright, no reproduction without
permission)

Photo by Nobu Sakamoto from Afghanistan
(copyright, no reproduction without
permission)

Photo by Nobu Sakamoto from Afghanistan
(copyright, no reproduction without
permission)

Seven years after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan to oust the Taliban, the country faces an increasingly uncertain future. While it has made great strides forward, political and religious killings are increasingly common in Kabul and southern Afghanistan. Pratap Chatterjee and Nobu Sakamoto return to the country as part of a CorpWatch/KPFA collaboration to take stock.

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Tell us what you think, ask our hosts Aimee Allison and Aaron Glantz a question, or respond to what other people are posting! You can also send our on air hosts an email at vets@kpfa.org. Click here to post a comment, or read how others have responded. Some responses may be read during the April 22nd Crisis in Veterans' Health Care broadcast on KPFA.