http://bravenewfilms.org/topics/kabul 2008-10-03T08:53:53Z http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/55301-pakistan-refusing-to-fight-al-qaeda-30-sept-08 2008-10-03T08:53:53Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GFLowe0U53g&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GFLowe0U53g&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/55301-pakistan-refusing-to-fight-al-qaeda-30-sept-08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/67055" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>The head of Afghanistan's spy agency has accused Pakistan of refusing to arrest the man they say was behind the bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul.</p> <p>In an interview with Al Jazeera, Amrullah Saleh says that his agency gave the man's details to Pakistani officials but that the authorities have failed to act.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/55301-pakistan-refusing-to-fight-al-qaeda-30-sept-08">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/55230-barack-obama-refocusing-on-afghanistan-and-pakistan 2008-10-08T02:46:07Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3vpCBpTbEds&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3vpCBpTbEds&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/55230-barack-obama-refocusing-on-afghanistan-and-pakistan"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/66978" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete video at: <a href="http://fora.tv/2008/07/15/Directors_Forum_with_Senator_Barack_Obama">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>2008 Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama calls for an increased military and diplomatic focus on Afghanistan and Pakistan, an area he identifies as the most critical front in the global fight against terrorism.</p> <p>-----</p> <p>Barack Obama: "A New Strategy for a New World"</p> <p>Senator Barack Obama gives a policy address on Iraq and National Security at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C. This program was recorded on July 15, 2008.</p> <p>Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961), is the junior United States Senator from Illinois. According to the U.S. Senate Historical Office, he is the fifth African American Senator in U.S. history and the only African American currently serving in the U.S. Senate. He is a candidate for the Democratic Party's 2008 presidential nomination.</p> <p>He was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996. Four years later, he made an unsuccessful run for the U.S. House of Representatives. Obama won reelection to the state senate in 2002, running unopposed. As early as 2002, he was a critic of the proposed Iraq War, declaring in a television interview that he would have voted against the Iraq Resolution. In 2004, he ran for an open seat in the U.S. Senate. Midway through the campaign, Obama delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and became a nationally known political figure. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2004 with a landslide 70% of the vote.</p> <p>Obama formally announced his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election in Springfield, Illinois, on February 10, 2007.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/55230-barack-obama-refocusing-on-afghanistan-and-pakistan">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/54607-afghanistan-s-view-on-the-us-election-25-sept-08 2008-09-29T14:49:17Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/C773VS2cPY0&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/C773VS2cPY0&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/54607-afghanistan-s-view-on-the-us-election-25-sept-08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/66244" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>The lives of people in Afghanistan, where the US toppled the government in a 2002 invasion, are likely to be affected by the outcome of the US presidential race.</p> <p>As part of its election coverage, Al Jazeera reports on how people in Afghanistan feel about the race for the White House.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/54607-afghanistan-s-view-on-the-us-election-25-sept-08">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/54352-a-ride-through-kabul-afghanistan 2008-10-07T16:06:03Z Brave New Films <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/bvgojTkYsas&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/bvgojTkYsas&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/54352-a-ride-through-kabul-afghanistan"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/65954" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p><p><a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/">Wahington Independent</a> reporter Spencer Ackerman rides through Kabul, Afghanistan on his way to Bagram Airfield.&nbsp; Here are his impressions:</p><blockquote><p>&quot;One of the first things I did when arriving in Kabul was to take out my video camera and record as much of the hour-long ride to Bagram Airfield as I could. To be totally candid, I didn&rsquo;t have a clue what to expect. Would Kabul be a war-torn but still modern capitol, as Baghdad is? Or would it brim with the destitution and desolation I would encounter along the Pakistani border. As I found, the answer was: Both.&quot; </p></blockquote></p> </div> <a href="/blog/54352-a-ride-through-kabul-afghanistan">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/52839-afghan-forces-capture-would-be-suicide-bomber-11-sept-08 2008-09-18T04:45:42Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2rS_OlcldZY&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2rS_OlcldZY&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/52839-afghan-forces-capture-would-be-suicide-bomber-11-sept-08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/64093" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Afghan authorities say they have captured a would-be suicide bomber who planned to target international forces operating in Afghanistan.</p> <p>The man in custody is a Pakistani who Afghan officials claim received training from the Pakistan's spy agency, but the Taliban say they have no need to recruit Pakistanis as US forces actions in Afghanistan have meant there are plenty of Afghan recruits.</p> <p>Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/52839-afghan-forces-capture-would-be-suicide-bomber-11-sept-08">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/51731-pakistan-bordering-on-chaos-03-aug-08 2008-09-08T18:48:39Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jhUF5f-6wF8&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jhUF5f-6wF8&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/51731-pakistan-bordering-on-chaos-03-aug-08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/62785" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Pakistan is battling Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters in the country's tribal regions, a problem compounded by the porous border with Afghanistan.</p> <p>Al Jazeera's Mike Hanna reports on this shared, troubled fronteir.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/51731-pakistan-bordering-on-chaos-03-aug-08">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/50294-afghans-resorting-to-heroin 2008-08-31T16:49:26Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EL41kwEA3dE&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EL41kwEA3dE&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/50294-afghans-resorting-to-heroin"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/61080" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>UN reports say opium production in Afghanistan has fallen for the first time in three years, but another worrying trend is on the horizon.</p> <p>Al Jazeera's James Bays in Kabul discovers how heroin use among the Afghan population has increased.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/50294-afghans-resorting-to-heroin">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/48590-us-war-on-drugs-in-iraq-11-aug-08 2008-08-17T08:41:19Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gSacv_tOajg&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gSacv_tOajg&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/48590-us-war-on-drugs-in-iraq-11-aug-08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/58542" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Iraq has become a favoured route for heroin and hashish, passing from Afghanistan and Iran to illegal markets in Europe and Africa.</p> <p>Washington may claim it is winning the so-called "war on terror" in Iraq, but US forces there are facing a growing battle against drugs.</p> <p>Al Jazeera's Jane Dutton reports.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/48590-us-war-on-drugs-in-iraq-11-aug-08">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/47034-100-uk-troops-dead-in-afghanistan-tehran-and-karzai 2008-07-25T19:04:31Z rattansifan <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/twziVRnsEtQ&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/twziVRnsEtQ&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/47034-100-uk-troops-dead-in-afghanistan-tehran-and-karzai"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/55609" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>When the government dispatched 3,000 British troops to southern Afghanistan in the spring of 2006 to join the limited number who had been there as part of an international security force (Isaf) since 2001, John Reid, then defence secretary, expressed the hope that they would accomplish their mission without a shot being fired.</p> <p>Just as in Iraq, it was a hope based on bad intelligence and little or no idea of the nature of the enemy.</p> <p>The troops set up a base in Helmand province without a clear mission and with Britain and its Nato allies at sixes and sevens about their rules of engagement. From the beginning, the relations of British military commanders with Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, and the country's local governors were fraught. British commanders sent soldiers to forward bases where they were vulnerable to Taliban fighters. Local peace deals fell apart.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/47034-100-uk-troops-dead-in-afghanistan-tehran-and-karzai">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/47029-afghanistan-says-it-will-invade-pakistan 2008-07-25T19:04:17Z rattansifan <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eDAmKjJUKEM&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eDAmKjJUKEM&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/47029-afghanistan-says-it-will-invade-pakistan"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/55604" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Afshin Rattansi talks to former Pakistani General Talat Masood.</p> <p>KABUL, Afghanistan — The president of Afghanistan threatened Sunday to send troops into Pakistan if Taliban fighters holed up there continue to cross the border and attack his country.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/47029-afghanistan-says-it-will-invade-pakistan">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/47023-osama-bin-laden-s-friend-on-afghanistan-s-invasion 2008-07-31T14:44:26Z rattansifan <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7wDOr291-34&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7wDOr291-34&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/47023-osama-bin-laden-s-friend-on-afghanistan-s-invasion"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/55597" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Khawaja Khalid, former Pakistan Air Force officer and former ISI secret service operative talks from Islamabad to award-winning journalist, Afshin Rattansi about his view that the U.S. is firing rockets into Afghanistan from Pakistan.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/47023-osama-bin-laden-s-friend-on-afghanistan-s-invasion">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/46591-karadzic-s-arrest-sparks-clashes-23-jul-08 2008-07-28T16:44:55Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vgUrnFvdqgg&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vgUrnFvdqgg&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/46591-karadzic-s-arrest-sparks-clashes-23-jul-08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/55017" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Radovan Karadzic will face charges of genocide at The Hague.</p> <p>His lawyers said the former Bosnian Serb leader plans to defend himself at the tribunal.</p> <p>He has been held in a Belgrade prison since his arrest on Monday, awaiting an appeal that is unlikely to prevent his extradition to face genocide charges.</p> <p>Karadzic's supporters who maintain he is a war hero - clashed with riot police again a day after his arrest.</p> <p>Al Jazeera's Dan Nolan reports on one of the most wanted men in Europe posing as a Doctor Dragan Dabic.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/46591-karadzic-s-arrest-sparks-clashes-23-jul-08">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/45133-carnage-in-kabul 2008-08-01T14:47:49Z mpal <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eYqhxxM8hVE&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eYqhxxM8hVE&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/45133-carnage-in-kabul"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/51848" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>More at <a href="http://therealnews.com/c.php?c=080601YT">therealnews.com</a> <br />Graeme Smith: Taliban forces 'franchised' and mostly Afghan based</p> </div> <a href="/blog/45133-carnage-in-kabul">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/45028-mourning-for-kabul-blast-victims-08-jul-08 2008-07-14T00:39:37Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wlFBtsjRl_U&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wlFBtsjRl_U&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/45028-mourning-for-kabul-blast-victims-08-jul-08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/51534" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>A suicide attack near the Indian embassy in Kabul, the Afghan capital, killed at least 44 people.</p> <p>Al Jazeera's James Bays visited one of the families who lost relatives in the blast.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/45028-mourning-for-kabul-blast-victims-08-jul-08">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/44963-deadly-kabul-bombing-kills-dozens-7-jul-08 2008-07-13T04:40:31Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vZ191uIcT_4&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vZ191uIcT_4&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/44963-deadly-kabul-bombing-kills-dozens-7-jul-08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/51452" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>At least 40 people, including Indian diplomats, have been killed and more than 100 others wounded in Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul, after an attack on the Indian embassy.</p> <p>The Taliban denies it was behind the attack, while the Afghan government claims this was the work of what they deem 'regional influences'. </p> <p>Hamid Karzai, president, said it was an abominable act of terrorism.</p> <p>James Bays, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Kabul, reports.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/44963-deadly-kabul-bombing-kills-dozens-7-jul-08">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/43268-afghanistan-s-incredibly-high-maternal-mortality-rate 2008-07-02T02:40:33Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PtaYqikOTtg&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PtaYqikOTtg&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/43268-afghanistan-s-incredibly-high-maternal-mortality-rate"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/49464" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Afghanistan had the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world after Sierra Leone. One in every 9 Afghan women die during or shortly after giving birth, this makes it a death every 21 minutes. In the US and Japan one in over 12,000 mothers die in childbirth. Al Jazeera&#39;s Dan Nolan reports from a hospital in Nangarhar Province, east of the capital Kabul.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/43268-afghanistan-s-incredibly-high-maternal-mortality-rate">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/42945-kabul-after-the-war-faces-traffic-chaos-24-jun-08 2008-06-30T02:41:08Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/kkhjSdanlvM&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/kkhjSdanlvM&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/42945-kabul-after-the-war-faces-traffic-chaos-24-jun-08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/48495" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Al Jazeera's Dan Nolan reports on the new war being faced in Afghanistan.</p> <p>Following the decades of war that have taken their toll on the Afghan capital, Kabul, and there is still not much in the way of new infrastructure.</p> <p>However the city is still facing a very modern problem: traffic chaos.</p> <p>Despite a big increase in the number of cars on the streets, the city has only one set of traffic lights.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/42945-kabul-after-the-war-faces-traffic-chaos-24-jun-08">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/41948-pakistan-s-tribal-fighters-threaten-retaliation-16-june-08 2008-06-22T00:37:03Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wo6_M3W-tvM&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wo6_M3W-tvM&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/41948-pakistan-s-tribal-fighters-threaten-retaliation-16-june-08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/47324" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Tribal leaders in Pakistan's north-west have vowed to fight back as violence escalates on the border with Afghanistan.</p> <p>Recent attacks by US-led forces and Pakistan's army have jeopardised hopes of a peace deal in the region. </p> <p>Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder reports from the border region of Mohmand - the target last week, of a deadly US airstrike.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/41948-pakistan-s-tribal-fighters-threaten-retaliation-16-june-08">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/38017-misguided-aid-in-afghanistan-washington-post-panel 2008-06-16T09:32:11Z FORAtv <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_n_Xw1Af7ys&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_n_Xw1Af7ys&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/38017-misguided-aid-in-afghanistan-washington-post-panel"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/42943" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Complete video at: <a href="http://fora.tv/2008/03/13/Washington_Post_Panel_America_and_the_World_2008">fora.tv</a> </p> <p>Washington Post reporter Pamela Constable discusses problems with American aid distribution in post-war Afghanistan. This excerpt is taken from a panel discussion entitled, "Washington Post Panel: America and the World in 2008," recorded in collaboration with the World Affairs Council of Washington, D.C.</p> <p>-----</p> <p>The Council's Annual Washington Post Panel continues with the Foreign News Editors and Correspondents from the Washington Post discussing major world issues facing the country and the new president - World Affairs Council of Washington, D.C.</p> <p>Pamela Constable has covered South Asia for The Washington Post since April 1999, with extensive coverage of Afghanistan as well as both India and Pakistan.</p> <p>Before arriving in New Delhi in 1999, Constable worked for The Post from 1994 to 1998 covering immigration and Hispanic affairs in the Washington area, and reported from Honduras, El Salvador, Haiti and Cuba.</p> <p>Prior to joining The Post, Constable worked for The Boston Globe as deputy Washington bureau chief and foreign policy reporter from June to September 1994. Previously, from 1983 until 1992, she was The Globe's roving foreign correspondent, Latin America correspondent and diplomatic correspondent. During this time she reported from Haiti, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Cuba, Colombia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Mexico, South Korea, the Philippines, the Soviet Union and Brazil, as well as in Washington.</p> <p>From 1978 to 1982, she was a staff writer at The Baltimore Sun. Prior to that, she worked as a reporter for the Evening Capital in Annapolis.</p> <p>She is the co-author with Arturo Valenzuela of A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet, and has written articles for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Current History and other publications. She was awarded an Alicia Patterson Fellowship in 1990 and the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for coverage of Latin America in 1993. </p> <p>Constable is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She received a B.A. from Brown University.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/38017-misguided-aid-in-afghanistan-washington-post-panel">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/34844-afghanistan-s-road-of-contention 2008-06-06T21:30:13Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/C8_S-_sXlpw&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/C8_S-_sXlpw&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/34844-afghanistan-s-road-of-contention"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/38289" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>It was meant to unify Afghanistan &mdash; the Kabul to Kandahar Highway. But having spent hundreds of millions of dollars relinking Afghanistan&#39;s two largest cities, the United States has lost control of the road to the Taliban. And what was meant to be a symbol of triumph, is now one of the most dangerous roads in the country.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/34844-afghanistan-s-road-of-contention">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/30737-afghanistan-s-youth-rehabilitation-27-feb-08 2008-06-08T03:30:58Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sTFPiN04KS0&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sTFPiN04KS0&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/30737-afghanistan-s-youth-rehabilitation-27-feb-08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/33119" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Their crimes range from terrorism to drug smuggling.</p> <p>And many young criminals in Afghanistan would have expected to serve their sentences in the notorious Pul-e-Charkhi prison, on the outskirts of Kabul.</p> <p>But in a sign of changing times, a new youth rehabilitation centre has been built, with money from the Italian government.</p> <p>Bernard Smith has been given exclusive access.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/30737-afghanistan-s-youth-rehabilitation-27-feb-08">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/27091-foreigners-face-increasing-danger-in-afghanistan-27-jan-08 2008-06-10T15:36:30Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yXAU5gZKOc4&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yXAU5gZKOc4&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/27091-foreigners-face-increasing-danger-in-afghanistan-27-jan-08"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/29124" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>A female US aid worker and her Afghan driver have been kidnapped by gunmen in southern Afghanistan.</p> <p>No group has taken responsibility for the kidnapping, but it's highlighted security concerns for foreign workers in the country.</p> <p>And after an attack on a popular hotel in Kabul, nearly two weeks ago, Westerners have now been advised to avoid going to public venues.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/27091-foreigners-face-increasing-danger-in-afghanistan-27-jan-08">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/23027-afghan-refugees-face-bleak-future-30-dec-07 2008-06-13T15:30:06Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3inoawWmYXY&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3inoawWmYXY&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/23027-afghan-refugees-face-bleak-future-30-dec-07"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/24572" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Despite large international aid donations, hundreds of Afghan children are living in squalour in Kabul, the capital. <br /> <br />Aid groups say malnutrition is rampant across the country, and access to healthcare is limited. <br /> <br />For every thousand Afghan children born, 165 die within a year - and a quarter of all Afghan children die before their fifth birthday.</p> <p>Al Jazeera's Owen Fay reports.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/23027-afghan-refugees-face-bleak-future-30-dec-07">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/16029-taliban-s-propaganda-war-in-afghanistan 2008-06-18T09:56:17Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5jCUeUNbnQE&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5jCUeUNbnQE&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/16029-taliban-s-propaganda-war-in-afghanistan"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/15807" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>When the Taliban controlled Afghanistan before the 2001 invasion, entertainment of any kind was banned. But ironically, in their attempt to regain control of the country, their propaganda is now being disseminated using television, videos and music. And as Hamish Macdonald reports, tapes like those received by Al Jazeera can be quite revealing.</p> <p>This conflict is largely viewed from the side of Nato and US forces. Media access is regularly granted and journalists often travel to the frontline. Rarely though do we see these battles from the other side. The Taliban, in an apparent attempt to display its resurgence has delivered 14 tapes to Al Jazeera. We cannot be certain when or where these images were filmed.</p> <p>Among the footage are attacks on Afghan police vehicles. The tape shows one person trying to escape, before being shot. The cars are then set alight. Another tape shows Taliban fighters proudly displaying what they discovered last year at an empty US military out-post. They appear particularly intrigued by the night-vision goggles.</p> <p>Waheed Mozhdah, former Taliban foreign ministry adviser, said: "The Taliban like to show powerful himself and show the enemy weak. I don't know how much the people believe that in the villages." </p> <p>The Taliban carried out a month-long campaign of suicide bombings and roadside attacks during Ramadan. These tapes demonstrate some of the techniques being used.</p> <p>Nato and US led coalition forces here say they have made major gains against the enemy during recent months. The Taliban though claims its securing support in a growing number of provinces. But with so much propaganda being disseminated from all sides, its difficult for anyone here to know just how much of it is true.</p> <p>One tape, showing Taliban pushing live donkeys off cliff, provides an insight into the mindset of those fighting this conflict.</p> <p>And from the US side as well. These images from a Dutch television documentary were among the tapes sent to us by the Taliban.</p> <p>The desire to gain the psychological advantage has meant that armed groups here and across the Middle East have now embraced propaganda in a big way. On all sides of the Afghan conflict there is an awareness that while the battles are important, the message may help win the war.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/16029-taliban-s-propaganda-war-in-afghanistan">Watch the video</a> http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/15114-suicide-blast-targets-us-convoy-in-kabul-afghanistan 2008-06-16T03:31:44Z aljazeera <object width="375" height="308"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZrVA4mObKbk&border=0&rel=0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZrVA4mObKbk&border=0&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="375" height="308"></embed></object> <a href="/blog/15114-suicide-blast-targets-us-convoy-in-kabul-afghanistan"><img src="http://bravenewfilms.org/pictures/medium/14987" width="140" height="105" border="0" align="left" style="border: solid 1px black;" /></a> <div class="post_content"> <p>Al Jazeera's Hamish MacDonald reports on Saturday's suicide attack on a US military convoy in Kabul. It is six years since US forces arrived in Afghanistan, but signs abound that the Taliban is fighting back. At 8.15 on Saturday morning occurred the latest strike - a suicide bomber drove directly into a US convoy. This is the already the most violent year this country has seen since the fall of the Taliban. It claims this attack is the thirteenth suicide bombing carried out during Ramadan. At least four vehicles were destroyed and again, women and children were among the casualties. US and Nato soldiers secured the scene as the wounded were taken to hospital. Government officials have condemned the violence, but once again the Taliban is warning more bombings should be expected by the end of Ramadan.</p> </div> <a href="/blog/15114-suicide-blast-targets-us-convoy-in-kabul-afghanistan">Watch the video</a>