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AFGHANISTAN

4^th century – Two huge buddhas were carved in sandstone in the caves of Bamiyan. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).

1507 – The Uzbeks rose to power in central Asia and made their capital in Herat western Afghanistan. (Afghanistan and cental Asia ©2002 Martin McCauley).

1841 – British national archives. Spy diplomat, captain Sir Alexander Burnes was murdered in Kabul in 1841. (The new spymasters. Stephen Grey (c)2015 UK).

1851 – Sir John Kaye. The history of the war in Afghanistan London UK vol 1.

July 1880 – Ayub, brother of the Emir, defeated a British force and killed 1,000 men in the west of Afghanistan at Maiwand. (History today. Feb 2014 p31).

Aug 1880 – After an unsuccessful attempt to occupy Afghanistan, British forces withdrew. Abdur Rahman Khan became ruler. The prison population went from 1,500 in 1880 to 20,000 in 1896. He killed about 100,000 people during his reign. (History Today June 2014 UK).

1884 – The Russians advanced from Merv to Panjdem 20 miles from Herat. (History today. Feb 2014 p31).

May 1919 – The third Afghan war broke out in May 1919, with the Afghan army crossing the fronetier into Pakistan. The attack recaptured Bagh, charged Afghan army with bayonets. (Who do you think you are. May 2014 UK).

1920s – Pinterest. A Kuchi nomad woman carrying water. Cirque. Tumblr.

1926 – The third Afghan war in 1919 official account, government of India 1926.

9 June 1956 – 400 people were killed. Timeline of earthquakes.

1965 – A Fletcher. Afghanistan, highway of conquest Cornell.

1 Jan 1965 – a leftist party called Khalq (masses), was set up under Nur Mohammad Taraki. In June 1967 a second leftist party called Parcham (banner or flag), was formed under Babrak Karmal.

1974 – Mohammed Niazi the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was jailed along with 200 of his associates. 50 others fled to Pakistan where they set up opposition movements. (Afghanistan ©2002 M Ewans).

1978 – Less than 200 tons of dried opium was produced in 1978 in Afghanistan, before the Soviet invasion. (Afghanistan (c)2002 M Ewans).

27 April 1978 – Leaders of the combined Khalq and Parcham leftist parties launched a coup. President Daoud Khan and his supporters were killed. The Democratic republic of Afghanistan DRA was set up. The Saur revolution was also Islamic.

5 Dec 1978 – Taraki went to Moscow and signed with Leonid Brezhnev a treaty of friendship and cooperation with the Soviet Union. Soviet military advisers played a role in directing DRA military units in their war against the rebels in the countryside.

24 Dec 1979 – Soviet forces entered Afghanistan. Peshawar Pakistan was the HQ for the Afghan resistance to Soviet occupation. Mujahadeen. The Saudis matched the Americans dollar for dollar until the end of the war. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright (c)2006 US).

27 Dec 1979 – The ouster of the leftist peoples Democratic party of Afghanistan backed by Soviet special forces Spetnazy in Kabul. (NZ and the Soviet Union. AL Wilson ©2004).

1980s – During the 1980s Afghan war against the Soviets. Saudi Arabia’s Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz, organised transport to Afghanistan for militants, the Mujahadeen, from various Arab countries. He controlled Saudi charities, giving tens of millions to the Mujahadeen. Many of these charities were on the US list of terror sponsors. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).

26 June 1984 – bin Laden recorded that the Mujahadeen shot down four Soviet aircraft. (The looming tower. Larence Wright ©2006 US).

17 April 1987 – Osama bin Laden led 120 fighters to attack an Afghan govt post near Khost. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).

May 1988 – The Soviets began a staged withdrawl from Afghanistan, signalling an end to the war. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).

15 May 1988 – The Soviets began withdrawl from Afghanistan. (This day in history. 15 May 2015).

1989 – There were more than one million Afghans dead. Six million refugees in Pakistan and Iran. The Soviets had 15,000 dead and 53,000 wounded. The Taliban moved in. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).

15 Feb 1989 – General Boris V Gromov was commander of Soviet forces in Afghanistan. He walked into Uzbekistan on 15 Feb 1989. The Soviets had lost 15,000 lives and 30,000 people were wounded. One to two million Afghanis died. 90% of them were civilians. A third of the people of Afghanistan were in refugee camps in Pakistan and Iran. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).

Aug 1996 – Bin Laden declared war on America from a cave in Afghanistan. US forces were still in Saudi Arabia, five years after the Gulf war. A Saudi in a cave in Tora Bora. Bin Laden became the most wanted man in FBI history. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).

Sept 1996 - The Taliban were in the capital Kabul. There had been no census in Afghanistan since 1979. Mullah Omar and Sharia law, Islamic Koran. Al Qaeda was led by Osama bin Laden who arrived in Afghanistan in 1996 from Sudan. His associate was Ayman al Zawahiri. The destruction of the Bamiyan buddhas. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011)

28 Nov 1997 – Newsmag. Forces of the northern warlord Abdul Rashid Dostan found 30 mass graves of Taliban soldiers.

4 Feb 1998 – 4,500 people were killed in Takhar in a 6.1 earthquake. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).

30 May 1998 – 6.8 earthquake. 4,000 people were killed in Takhar. (Aljazeera 15 Oct 2013).

1999 – The Afghan production of opium was about 4,500 tons, 75% of the world total. See Alain Cabrousse. Liberation 4 Oct 2001. (Jihad. Gilles Kepel (c)2002 UK).

2000 to 2006 – Afghan opium production went from 3,276 metric tonnes in 2000 to 185 tonnes in 2001. A record high of 6,610 metric tonnes in 2006.

March 2001 – The Taliban destroyed centuries old Buddhist figures, which were carved into the Baniyan of Afghanistan. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).

11 Sept 2001 – The US obliterated Afghanistan, after the terrorist attack of 11 Sept 2001. 9/11. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).

7 Oct 2001 – Unocal oil and gas pipeline through Afghanistan from Turkistan to Pakistan. Unocal oil and gas pipelines.

7 Oct 2001 – Invasion of Afghanistan by the US. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone (c)2012 US).

7 Oct 2001 – US invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert ops on the ground. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history 7 Oct 2015)

15 Oct 2001 – Opium banks in Afghanistan. War on terror. John Zubruzyski. The Australian Canberra ACT. Opium farmers use an informal network of opium banks.

8-11 Nov 2001 – On 8 Nov 2001 bin Laden and al Zawahiri were in Kabul, then they went to Jalalabad on 10 Nov 2001. The place was full of refugees. On 11 Nov 2001 at an Islamic centre bin Laden gave a speech. Bin Laden handed out $100,000 and left the next day for Tora Bora. (The 9/11 war. Jason Burke ©2011)..

25 March 2002 – In the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan a 6.1 earthquake killed 1,000 people. USGS historic world earthquakes.

8 April 2002 – Mass graves in Afghanistan, bodies of 35 adults and children. Irish Times Dublin.

May 2002 – 13,000 foreign troops were in Afghanistan. Until summer 2002, food for the troops in Bagran Afghanistan, was cooked at US bases in Ramstein Germany. It was flown 4,000 miles, reheated and served. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).

31 Aug 2003 – Billions of dollars in Saudi oil revenue. Time article. Book “Why America slept”. al Qaeda terrorist Abu Zubaydah was captured by Americans in Afghanistan. He was Osama bin Laden’s number three man. (Gerald S Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).

5 April 2004 – Michael Chossudossky. The spoils of war. Afghanistan’s multibillion dollar heroin trade. Centre for research globalisation.

4 Aug 2007 – Matthew Lee. Another record poppy crop in Afghanistan. AP.

Sept 2007 – UN figures for Sept 2007. Afghanistan accounted for 95% of the world’s opium crops.

6 March 2008 – Afghan heroin production at new high. The Australian Canberra ACT.

30 June 2008 – Slash the Taliban’s cash crops. Martin Chulov. The Australian Canberra ACT heroin.

10 August 2009 – Afghanistan’s narco war breaking the link between drug traffickers and insurgents. A report to the committee on foreign relations US Senate 111 Congress first sess ebook (Worldcat database).

31 Dec 2009 – A Jordanian doctor and secret agent, killed seven CIA employees in Afghanistan. Humam al Balawi was a Palestinian Jordanian. (The new spymasters. Stephen Grey (c)2015 UK).

2010 – Afghanistan a cultural and political history. Thomas Barfield. Google books.

2010 – American war machine, deep politics the CIA and global drug connection and the road to Afghanistan. Peter Dale Scott book Laham md Rowman Littlefield pub (Worldcat database).

2011 – The global Afghan opium trade, a threat assessment Hakan Demirbuken Hayder Mili Renee Le Cussan UN ebook Vienna Austria (Worldcat database).

2011 – The nexus international terrorism and drug trafficking from Afghanistan. Frank Shanty ebook Santa Barbara Calif Praeger security int (Worldcat database).

2011 – Terrorism and drug trafficking from Afghanistan. Frank Shanty ebook Santa Barbara California Prager. Worldcat database.

25 June 2012 – Australian soldiers take aim at Afghan opium growers. Max Blenkin. The Mercury Hobart Tasmania. Afghan heroin goes to Australia and Russia.

Dec 2013 – Ancient Ghazni and the tomb of Biruni. Afghanistan explorer of the middle ages. Ghazni and the place of Biruni's tomb. The 13^th century manuscript of al-Biruni's navigations. (History today. Dec 2013 UK).

22 Oct 2014 – Inspector general, new opium highs, corruption in Afghanistan. US news and world report. Illegal drug trade, billions from the US.

14 Jan 2015 – ISIS has set up base in Afghanistan, less than 3 months after British troops left. Daily Mail. Southern Afghanistan, Mullah Abdul Rauf is recruiting fighters.

25 Jan 2015 – Breitbart. Dianne Feinstein said the rapid pull out of Afghanistan will help an al Qaeda resurgence. Pam Key.

30 Jan 2015 – Three Americans were killed in a shooting at Kabul airport. New York Times. Three American contractors were killed in a shooting on a military site. The Express.

27 Feb 2015 – Stuff.co.nz. More than 160 people have been killed in Afghanistan avalanches. Villages in north Afghanistan were burying more than 180 people killed in avalanches. The Indian.

12 May 2015 – Hindustan Times. A 6.9 earthquake in Afghanistan. About the same time as a 7.4 earthquake in Nepal. Both quakes were felt in India.

28 July 2015 – 21 people were killed in a gun battle in northern Afghanistan. Washington Post. New York Times. Kabul. The gun battle between rival warlords in the northern Baghlai province.

31 July 2015 – The Telegraph UK. Twitter. MOD says laws must change after UK Afghan detention policies ruled illegal.

6 Sept 2015 – Young school girls were attacked with gas and acid in Afghanistan. 30 girls were sent to hospital, it was the 4^th such incident in a week. Four female teachers and 26 students were hospitalised. School in Herat. (Gary Walton G+. The Big wobble).

9 Oct 2015 – Your Anon facts. Twitter. Earthquake 4.8 in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan.

10 Oct 2015 – Xinhua China. Fresh clashes erupt in Afghanistan's Kunduz. Security forces and the Tailban clash in Kunduz city.

16 Oct 2015 – Stuff.co.nz. CIA and west torture alleged. ACLU says the psychologists, James Elmer Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen.. Post 9/11 torture. Psychological torture.

16 Oct 2015 – Australia to join the US in keeping troops in Afghanistan. Sydney Morning Herald. David Wroe. The Taliban in Kunduz.

17 Oct 2015 – Russia putting guards in Tajikistan to fend of ISIS. Russian defence fight terrorism by putting guards on the border between Afganistan and Tajikistan. General Yuri Borisov. Before its news.

17 Oct 2015 – Putin warns of spillover from Afghan fighting. The Nation. NDTV. Astana Kabul. Putin says violence in Afghanistan could spill over into ex Soviet states.

17 Oct 2015 – US tanks attack the MSF hospital in Kunduz Afghanistan to destroy evidence. Twitter. RT.

17 Oct 2015 – US tanks attacks the MSF hospital in Kunduz to destroy evidence. Twitter. Before its news.

20 Oct 2015 – US puts Taliban leader on terrorism list. Torek Agha. Taliban. The long war jounal.

22 Oct 2015 – Russia eyes Afghanistan, again. Visits to Moscow by Afghan leaders and a NATO pullout of Afghanistan. Communities digital news.