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Warlords call to arms hacked3/23/2023 ![]() You Don't Care About These Photos From Afghanistan, But Some People Died For Them | | BuzzFeed News Gallery Hours: Thur-Fri 3-7PM + Sat-Sun 1-5PM The BDC is committed to creating dialogue and education around these events as they’re happening.Ĭurated by Michael Kamber and Cynthia Rivera.īronx Documentary Center, 614 Courtlandt Ave., Bronx, NY 10451 The BDC’s new URGENCY! series is a real-time response to critical worldwide events, through exhibitions and public programs. ![]() The Taliban had successfully bided their time. In much of the country, there was no fighting: the Afghan government troops simply handed power to the Taliban, or flipped sides for a cash payment. When President Biden began to pull the last US troops out of Afghanistan in August, 2021, the Afghan military, which the US had trained at a reported cost of $350 billion, collapsed in less than two weeks. The Afghan government was left out of the talks entirely. The Trump administration negotiated a 2020 deal with the Taliban for the complete removal of U.S. The Obama administration at first committed a surge of troops but then began a withdrawal, even declaring a timetable for disengagement. Politicians built mansions in Kabul with siphoned cash-or flew off to villas in Dubai.Īfghanistan had become a “forever war,” and America and its leaders were tired of it. Elections were tainted with blatant fraud. As years passed, the U.S.-backed Afghan government failed to win the confidence of the people. Assassins took aim at not only political leaders but girls who dared to attend their newly-opened schools and laborers who worked on highway projects. The Taliban had begun retaking territory and its suicide bombers were terrorizing the major cities. As Afghanistan slipped down the list of American priorities, the Taliban regrouped.īy 2007, the country was again in the midst of civil war. was soon distracted by its 2003 invasion of Iraq. US and NATO forces began the process of stabilizing and rebuilding a country of 22 million in a territory the size of France-one with few paved roads and little functioning infrastructure.Īmerica poured hundreds of billions of dollars into the landlocked country, the money primarily used to create a new Afghan National Army and to support an expanding police force. By mid-November, the Taliban had “fallen,” though most of its fighters had simply returned to their home villages, taken refuge in the mountainous landscape or received shelter in neighboring Pakistan. Within weeks, the United States launched a campaign of military retribution, supporting anti-Taliban warlords with American air power and inducing their loyalty with suitcases full of cash. demands to hand over Osama bin Laden and the rest of the Al Qaeda leadership. Women were confined to their homes unless their bodies were sheathed in a head-to-toe burqa.Īfter the attacks against America, the Taliban refused U.S. Adulterers were stoned to death thieves had their arms hacked off. Music, dance and television were forbidden. Taliban rule brought a semblance of law and order to a war-worn land, but the law it compelled was a strict interpretation of Shariah and the order was enforced by the group’s whip-wielding religious police. On September 11, 2001, members of Al Qaeda, a terrorist group operating from Afghanistan, attacked the United States, destroying the World Trade Center, damaging the Pentagon and killing 3,000 Americans.Īl Qaeda had been given safe haven in Afghanistan by the Taliban, a fundamentalist Islamic militia which by 1996 had seized control of most of the country. “You foreigners have the watches but we’ve got the time,” is a quote often attributed to a Taliban commander. Blue | Paula Bronstein | Andrea Bruce | Saurabh Das | Kevin Frayer | David Gilkey | David Goldman | Rahmat Gul | Jim Huylebroek | Wakil Kohsar | Brennan Linsley | Emilio Morenatti | Anja Niedringhaus | Joao Silva | David Guttenfelder | Altaf Qadri | Farzana Wahidy | Dar Yasin Please call (718) 993-3512 to schedule a visit
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