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| Women’s Rights? Afghan Women Go to School |
| 2004-03-24 |
| KABUL, Afghanistan -- Weapons caches were found on Monday near Bagram and Shkin. Tuesday, near Gardez, an Afghan citizen turned in a cache with more than 400 recoilless rifle rounds and 100 mortar rounds. The United States Ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, announced on Sunday that the US will fund construction of 152 new schools and refurbishment of 255 more within the next six months. He made the announcement at a ceremony opening the new school year, the third since the collapse of the Taliban regime. An estimated 5.5 million students are expected to return to the classroom this year, 1.5 million more than last year. And the percentage of girls attending school grew to 36 percent last year and that number is expected to further increase this year. Since 2002 the United States has constructed and rehabilitated over 200 schools, reached 16,000 students through accelerated learning programs, trained 2,100 teachers, and distributed 10.3 million textbooks. Today is the grand opening of the Afghan National Army Recruiting Station in Ghazni City. Tomorrow we will celebrate the grand opening of the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Khowst. This is the 12th PRT grand opening and four more PRTs are scheduled to open in the next several months. |
| Posted by:Chuck Simmins |
| #7 "oh, cmon, ya think i dont get snickering derision for my open and honest comments? Hell this sites full of snickering derision. You can take it, I know you can." Yeah, but at least ya made us scroll back a few posts before we got what you meant. Nice work! |
| Posted by: War46 2004-03-24 10:46:12 PM |
| #6 Yeah, we reserve snickering derision for people we like. People we don't like get mocking derision. |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-3-24 12:31:29 PM |
| #5 oh, cmon, ya think i dont get snickering derision for my open and honest comments? Hell this sites full of snickering derision. You can take it, I know you can. |
| Posted by: Liberalhawk 2004-3-24 11:57:20 AM |
| #4 Okay... another reason Karzai wouldn't care for me is cuz I don't share his sartorial splendor. Geez, make an open honest comment and whaddya get? Snickering derision, it seems. Don't worry, I don't make the same mistake twice. And I hate Steinbrenner - he's in the same special "Mysterious Physics" category as Trump: People who are so vacuous they should've already imploded, by now. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-3-24 10:54:29 AM |
| #3 and im sure Karzai is no fan of you, dot com. Im no fan of the NY Yankees, myself. |
| Posted by: Liberalhawk 2004-3-24 9:53:56 AM |
| #2 And this is what the explosives which blew up on the train in Iran were prolly for: destroying progress in Afghanistan. I am no fan of the Afghans, whether Karzai or the warlords or the sycophantic and mercenary nature of its "fighters", but this makes me swallow very hard and feel ashamed that I haven't ackowledged how much the troops have accomplished outside of Kabul. Awesome. There are insufficient stories on this progress (of course!) and I've been remiss in seeking out such info. Simply Awesome! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-3-24 9:14:13 AM |
| #1 US will fund construction of 152 new schools and refurbishment of 255 more within the next six months And that's in addition to the daycares that Osama bin Laden has built... You know, the one's Al Qaeda Patty Muraay sez he built... Wait... He didn't build any did he? |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-3-24 8:56:15 AM |