Last updated on August 15,
2008
- Afghanistan: A Country
Study (Army/IIT)
- Army area handbook on Afghanistan completed in 1986
- Geography, government, politics, society, and national security
- Coverage from ancient history to the Soviet intervention in the 1970's and 1980's
- Digitized into chapters by the Illinois Institute of Technology
- HTML
Version (Library of Congress)
- Afghanistan:
The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973-90
(UMich Only)
- Digital National Security Archive display of declassified documents
- Middle
East/North Africa Resource Guide
- Comprehensive guide to internet resources for the Middle East,
North Africa, and Central Asia
- Resources arranged by country and by academic discipline
(anthropology, economics, history, religion, sociology)
- Links include country home pages, discussion lists, and homepages of
foreign students residing in the U.S.
- World Trade
Center Bombing 1993
- Embassy Bombings - 1998
- USS Cole Investigation
(Navy)
- Extensive report released on January 19, 2001
- While everyone in the chain of command deserves some blame, no one
will be indicted
- Executive
Summary
- 9/11 Attacks
Invasion of Afghanistan: 2001-2002
- Attack
on America: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban and Terrorism (East Carolina
University)
- Annotated bibliography of U.S. government and private research reports
on terrorism, Osama bin Laden and the Al-Qaida
- Includes hearings and Congressional Research Service reports
- Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI)
- Bin Laden had links to this bank per Senator John Kerry at
Senate Finance Commitee hearing on September 26, 2001
- Original Congressional hearings on bank's failure:
- House Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. Bank of
Credit and Commerce International. 1991-92, pts. 1-3. Y 4.B22/1:102-69,
pts.1-3
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. BCCI Affair. August 1991-July
1992, pts. 1-6. Y4.F76/2:S.Hrg. 102-350,pts.1-6
- bin
Laden
- Articles and excerpts of Osama bin Laden from various pro and con
sources
- Includes his declaration of war
- Bin
Laden Pre-Election Speech (Al Jazeera)
- Bin Laden Address to Iraq (Feb. 11, 2003)
- Excerpts
(CNN)
- English excerpts of tape broadcast on Al-Jazeera
- Encourages Iraqi people to launch suicide attacks against Americans
but also suggests Saddam could be considered an infidel
- Bin
Laden Terrorism Tape (Nov. 12, 2002)
- BBC News translation of tape aired on Al-Jazeera on November 12,
2002
- Calls President Bush the "pharaoh of the century"
- Refers to Bali bombings
- Blessed
Terrorism Tape (ABC)
- Excerpts in English of video tape released by al-Jazeera on December
27, 2001
- bin Laden looks pale
- Calls his type of terrorism against U.S. as "blessed terrorism" and
calls for economic destruction of U.S.
- Deadly
Secrets Left by Fleeing Taliban (Times of London/UMich Only)
- Two articles dated November 15 describing documents on weapon building
left in safe houses in Kabul when the Taliban fled
- For the text, paste in the following keyword search:
PCID(000000001523080) and deadly secrets
- Evidence Against Bin
Laden (UK)
- Statement of evidence of Bin Laden's responsibility for the September
11th attacks
- Provided by Prime Minister Tony Blair of Great Britain
- Evidence released on October 4 and
November
14
- Interview
with Osama bin Laden (John Miller, 1998, UMich Only)
- Interview with bin Laden by John Miller of ABC News in 1998
- Bin Laden explains his rationale for killing Americans
- Access Lexis-Nexis Academic/Guided News Search/News
Transcripts/ABC News. Search: miller and osama and nightline in
full text for June 10,
1998
- Terrorist
and the Superpower (PBS)
- Web site explores whether Bin Laden's power has been over-exaggerated
by the federal government
- Biography of Bin Laden, his objectives and excerpted writings
- Extensive documentation of U.S. response, including the Justice
Department indictment, speeches, and U.S. foreign policy statements
- Affect on Muslims in America
- FBI Most
Wanted Notice for bin Laden
- Denial
of Responsibility (CNN)
- Excerpts of radio speech made on September 16, 2001
- Denies responsibility for attack
- Videotape
of Bin Laden Discussion
- English translation of videotape taken of Osama bin Laden in November
2001
- Bin Laden praises unexpected success of World Trade Center attack
- Another copy
- Extradition Request by U.S.
- The United States demanded that key figures of al Qaeda be turned over to outside authorities and that all terrorist training camps in Afghanistan be closed.
- Name of Campaign
- Congressional
Authorization of National Emergency
- S.J.Res. 23 was oassed by the Senate and House on
September 14, 2001
- Text of resolution and links to debate in Congressional Record
- Executive
Order Mobilizing the Reserves
- Executive Order released on September 14, 2001
- Former
King Mohammed Zahir Shah (CNN)
- News report that king exiled in 1973 is willing to lead a coalition
government in a post-Taliban era
- Released on September 30, 2001
- Announcement of War
- Abdul Haq
- Map
of Afghani Targets (CNN)
- Operation Anaconda
- CNN
News
- March 4 report that eight or nine soldiers killed
- Helicopter shot down by Taliban and Al-Qaeda near Gardez
- Battle
of Takur Ghar (Defense Dept)
- News release and executive summary of the Defense Department's
investigation on the U.S. deaths during Operation Anaconda in March 2002
- Includes press conference and slides
- Fog
of War Shrouds U.S. Victory (BBC)
- U.S. victory claims and body count
- Were Al-Qaeda vaporized or did they escape as Afghans claim
- Bin
Laden's Statement
- Statement declaring jihad against America
- Made after the September 11th attack and aired on television on
October 7, the day the United States attacked the Taliban
- Afghanistan
(Yahoo News)
- Contains up-to-date news and information about the conflict in Afghanistan.
- Also includes links to articles from other news sites.
- American Forces Press Service
- Dispatches from the military press corps on the conflict in Afghanistan
- Includes links to related topics and Department of Defense websites
- BBC News
- Current news on Afghanistan from the British Broadcasting Corporation
- Focuses on British troops and their perspectives
- Also includes links to country facts, weather, and other data
- CNN Topics - Afghanistan
- A list of all recent articles from CNN on the conflict in Afghanistan
- Includes links to articles on affiliated websites
- Also includes links to related topics, such as the Taliban and Afghan politics
- NATO - Afghanistan
- Provides an overview of NATO's objectives in Afghanistan
- Provides links to related materials
- NATO - ISAF
- Provides news and updates on NATO's work in Afghanistan
- Focuses on the military issues handled by NATO
- UN News Centre
- Covers current news in Afghanistan, with a focus on UN activity in the region
- Includes relevant statements, resolutions, and press briefings
- Also includes links to relevant content on other UN websites
- World News
Connection (UMich Library Only)
[http://wnc.dialog.com/]
- Full text of foreign news broadcasts and press releases translated
into English beginning November 1994
- Searchable by keyword, region and subject, or Boolean logic and
modified by date
- Regions are:
Central Eurasia
China
East Asia
East Europe
West Europe
Latin America
Near East and South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
- Foreign
Broadcast Information Service [Library] [http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=FBIS]
- Web index to the texts of foreign radio broadcasts and newswires
translated into English, 1975-96
located in Graduate Library Index Room
- Paper and microfiche translations located in Graduate Library Serials/Microforms Room
- Guide
to FBIS gives call numbers of the corresponding reports
- Continued by the World News
Connection
- War on Terrorism - Afghanistan Casualties
- A list of the US soldiers killed during the conflict in Afghanistan, including rank, branch of service, and hometown
- List updated to reflect soldiers killed since the end of Operation Enduring Freedom
- Information posted within two weeks
- President Karzai
- The official website of the current president of Afghanistan
- Includes information on the constitution, legislature, and government
- Also includes links to related Afghanistan government departments and ministries
- Afghanistan Embassy to the the US
- The official page of the Afghanistan embassy in Washington, DC
- Includes embassy and consulate information, as well as general information on Afghanistan
- Also includes biographical information about the ambassador
- US Embassy to Afghanistan
- The offical page of the US embassy in Kabul
- Includes biographies of ambassadorial staff, services, obtaining visas, and relevant policies
- US State Department Country Profile
- The offical US State Department website on Afghanistan
- Includes information on the reconstruction and humanitarian assistance being offered to Afghanistan
- CIA World Factbook
- Includes relevant information on the government, people, economy, and other major facts of Afghanistan
Civil Rights - Worldwide
- Amnesty
International
- Annual country reports on human rights practices
- Multiple investigations for individual countries
- Includes U.S. violations
- Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices
- State Department annual report on human rights violations in individual
countries beginning 1993
- For the
Record
- Summary of human reports reports given by individual countries to the
United Nations
- Hot links to the full text
- Includes Afghanistan's submission
- Human Rights Watch
- Full text of country reports on human rights in various
countries
- Breaking news and background reports
- Web site includes search engine
- Human
Rights Web
- Extensive guide to human rights organizations, data bases, and
newsgroups worldwide
- Includes inter-governmental and private web sites and
documents
- Religious
Rights (UNESCO)
- Religious rights provisions of individual national constitutions
- International treaties with religious rights provisions
- Bibliography of sources and discussion groups
- University of
Minnesota Human Rights Library
- International human rights treaties arranged by subject and
searchable by keyword
- United States human rights laws, speeches, reports, and historical
materials
- International refugee and asylum information
- Congressional Quarterly (UMich Only)
- Weekly publication with non-partisan political analysis of Congress
- Identifies major legislation, the issues, and players
- Roll call votes
- Political party and election analysis
- Web coverage begins in 1983 and is searchable
- Congressional Quarterly Almanac (UMich Only) is a detailed summary of the weekly reports, 1946-2006.
- US State Department Country Profile
- The offical US State Department website on Afghanistan
- Includes information on the reconstruction and humanitarian assistance being offered to Afghanistan
Congressional Committee Hearings
- Congressional Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes committee hearings, prints, and reports since 1789
- Provides access to the full text of selected hearings testimony beginning 1988, reports since 1989 and committee prints since 1993
- Search under the phrase "Afghanistan and war".
- Some example hearings are:
- MIRLYN (Open Access)
- The catalog of the University of Michigan has numerous publicly available hearings on Afghanistan from 2003 to the present day
- Using the advanced search feature, input the following terms under the "Words Anywhere" field: Afghanistan and Hearing? and purl
- Some example hearings are:
- Related Congressional Committees (Open Access)
- Each committee site includes information on committee members, upcoming hearings, and related subcommittees
- Also includes information on current and recent hearings on the situation in Afghanistan
- The committees that deal with Afghanistan the most often are:
- Academic
Info: Afghanistan Studies
- Well-chosen links to the history, language, and politics of the
country
- Numerous links to foreign policy considerations, human rights, and CIA
reports
- Even a Russian web site in English about its war with Afghanistan
- Statistical Resources on the Web
- Extensive web site with annotated links to economic, demographic, transportation, education, and
sociological data
- Cumulative frames index
- Statistical Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes all federal government statistics, 1974+; many state, business and professional publications, 1980+;
international agency publications, 1983+
- Power searches indexes individual tables in federal and state statistical abstracts and
provides the data
- Search abstracts searches annotations for all publications in the data base and provides
some hot links
- All publications listed in Statistical Universe are on microfiche in the Documents Center
- Background
Paper on Refugees and
Asylum Seekers from Afghanistan (UNCHR)
- Report issued in April 2001
- Economic, political and military situation in Afghanistan
- Legal rights of refugees
- Human rights violations
- Various vulnerable groups
- Rebuilding
Afghanistan (U.S. Agency for International Development)
- U.S. AID plans for assistance Afghan agriculture, health, education,
labor force, infrastructure, government, and women
- Map at back of the pamphlet notes USAID activity by geography
- World
Food Programme
- Emergency shipments of food to Afghanistan
- Camena Country
Profiles
(IFC)
- Economic and social indicators for countries in the Middle East,
North Africa, and Central Asia
- Includes GDP and GNP, poverty rates, illiteracy, and child
malnutrition
- Covers Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the former Soviet republics
- Country Briefings
(Economist Intelligence Unit) (UMich Only)
- Brief economic and economic policy forecasts
- Summary economic data for past four years (GDP, unemployment,
consumer prices)
- Lengthier summary of recent political history
- Current exchange rates
- References to lengthier EIU products, which must be purchased
separately
- Includes Pakistan but not Afghanistan of surrounding former Soviet republics
- Info
Nation (UN)
- Current statistics on 185 countries
- Thirty-seven variables include: population, life expectancy,
fertility, school enrollment, illiteracy, homicides, motor vehicles, GDP
and labor force
- Carbon dioxide emissions, threatened species, and energy consumption
are among the environmental data
- Separate section on Twenty-One
Cities of the World focuses on population and
environment
- Penn World
Tables (UPenn)
- Time series data, 1950 to 1992, for 152 countries on 29 subjects,
most related to Gross Domestic Product
- Label codes must be used for multiple countries or subjects
- Names rather than labels can be used under "Retrieve a Single PWT
Series by Label"
- Another set on the web through the University
of Toronto
Todd Baker, Documents Intern, July 2008
University of Michigan Library
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/afghan.html
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