Currently in Afghanistan

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All news stories from Afghan News Network

• Habibullah Jan, a district administrator in Nimroz province, was killed by the Taliban.
  
• Afghanistan is once again the world's largest exporter of opium.
  
• "President" Bush's proposed budget included not one red cent for rebuilding Afghanistan, forcing lawmakers to put it in if it was going to happen at all.
  
• Afghan warlords are shooting at each other right outside the US base.
  
• The Ministry of Religious Affairs -- a government agency of Our Boy Hamid Karzai's administration -- harasses women in the street for wearing make-up.
  
• Women in Herat are still forbidden to walk or ride with men who are not their relatives -- even a taxi driver.
  
• Women not wearing burqua are still harassed by police and private citizens.
  
• Women are still subject to male rule regarding who they will marry, whether and where they will work.
  
• Schools teaching girls have been firebombed and rocketed.
  
  
  Does somebody want to dare tell me again about how the United States is prepared to go in for the long haul and truly do the right thing in a post Saddam Hussein Iraq? Pull the other one, that one's got bells on.