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January

January 1: On his way to meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Haji Naim Kuchai Kuchi elder (aka Naeem Kochi) was arrested by U.S. troops. Kuchai had stopped the car he was traveling about 25 miles south of Kabul, when the incident occurred. He was then taken to an undisclosed location.

More than 300 rockets, 107 mm mostly smuggled from neighboring Pakistan were seized by border police in the region Durbaba of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.

January 2: BearingPoint of McLean, Va., announced that had installed and was helping to operate a system of financial management information for the Afghan government. The work was part of a contract for $ 3,950,000 Americans, the company had to help the government upgrade its accounting system.

This marked the last day of a transition period of three months Afghanistan Afghani exchange the old notes for new currency, which kept the name, but had dropped three zeros.

International Security Assistance Force soldiers found explosive material planted in a school in Kabul.

January 3: The UN High Commissioner for Refugees said the security problems and conditions precarious life meant that it was still unsafe for many of the more than 4 million Afghan refugees to return home.

January 4: A two-day meeting Iran, Afghanistan and India marked a new beginning to boost cooperation in the region. The meeting was headed by the ministers of three countries trade to discuss ways of implementation of earlier agreements on strengthening trade ties and transit, including building a railroad to call Sistan Baluchestan southeastern Iran to the Afghan provinces of Nimruz, Farah, Helmand and Kandahar.

The first 1,000 of 25,000 Afghans participating went on pilgrimage to Mecca in Kabul a year after a mob attacked and killed Hajis of a government minister there. Only 6,500 of the 15,000 candidates were able to make the trip in 2002.

January 6: A Taliban suspect was arrested in the province of Bamyan and taken to Kabul.

The commander of the International Security Assistance Force Security, Turkish General Hilmi Akin Zorlu, said journalists that the U.S. led war against Iraq could provoke terrorists to step up attacks against foreigners.

In the first week of 2003 in Zabul province, armed men stole at least seven vehicles belonging to British, U.S. and aid agencies in Afghanistan in broad daylight and the local office of the Afghan Development Agency suffered a grenade attack. These incidents have put the future of aid operations to the region in danger.

January 7: Two Ariana Afghan Airlines jet carrying Muslim pilgrims from Herat to Saudi Arabia for the annual pilgrimage made precautionary landing in UAE. US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan, suspected of a bomb or a hijacker aboard one of flights. Afghan authorities and United Arab Emirates found no sign of any hijack attempt.

Mullah Salam, a former regional Taliban commander was released from U.S. detention. Salam was not immediately clear where he had been held or why he was released. He came home late for Zabul province, in Afghanistan.

January 8: Trade Minister Syed Mustafa Afghanistan Kazmi signed an agreement in Tehran to open "all channels" Trade between Iran and Afghanistan and allow Afghan vehicle access to all parts of Brazil.

Afghan foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah that Pakistan should do more to police the border with Afghanistan and capture the leaders of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. He suggested that some Taliban leaders were in Pakistan.

In Kabul, Paula Dobriansky, U.S. undersecretary of state for global affairs, announced that the U.S. would be a donation of $ 3.5 million to support education, small businesses and other programs for Afghan women. Private companies, including Daimler-Chrysler and AOL Time Warner, would give another U.S. $ 80,000 for additional programs. Dobriansky was in Afghanistan to lead a U.S. delegation at the second Council meeting in the U.S. Afghan Women.

Two fuel trucks were damaged by explosions on board, who were stationed about three miles (5 km) from a U.S. base for coalition forces in Kandahar, Afghanistan. One Afghan driver was lightly wounded.

U.S. special forces found about 150 mines near Jalalabad after been alerted by local Afghans.

In Keshende in Afghanistan, one person was killed and three wounded in an armed confrontation between the forces of Ustad Atta Mohammad and Abdul Rashid Dostum.

In Loi Karez, four people died and one was wounded in a shootout between Afghan forces and suspected members of the ousted Taliban militia.

January 9: The ceremony was held in Kabul Inter-Continental Hotel to celebrate the reopening of Xinhua Kabul bureau, which was originally established in 1956 and had to suspend its operations in 1979.

Eight Afghans died and 10 were injured when a minibus traveling from Spin Boldak to Pakistan crashed on a mountain road. The driver lost control of his vehicle, near the Pakistani border city of Chaman.

January 10: The governor of Herat Province, Ismail Khan, put restrictions on the education of women by prohibiting women to be taught by men in management courses for private and prevent women from attending classes on a building while the men are being taught.

The World Health Organization reported 115 cases and 17 deaths from pertussis in Khwahan district the provincial capital of Badakhshan.

Using the Generalized System of Preferences, U.S. President George W. Bush named Afghanistan a "beneficial less developed, a move that allowed Afghanistan to export about 5,700 products to the U.S. without tariffs.

In Jalalabad, Afghanistan, soldiers U.S. special forces discovered bags of food to about 900 pounds of propellant, 180 pounds (82 kg) of steel ball bearings, and 200 rocket-propelled grenades.

January 11: As a goodwill gesture, Afghan Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum released 50 prisoners who fought for the former Taliban regime of a prison in Kunduz. Jailed since the fall of the Taliban regime in late 2001, prisoners were given the Pashtun tribal leaders. Dostum had been accused of war crimes against prisoners, including choking about 1,000 Taliban fighters transported in cargo containers without air after his surrender. The general denied the allegations but said the 200 prisoners who have suffer from illnesses and injuries sustained during the fighting may have died while being taken to jail. President Karzai supported the launch.

Residents Paktia province reported a pirate radio station resources to overthrow the fragile Afghan government forces and US-led coalition attack.

The U.S. military resumed clearing mines at Bagram Air Base, two days after an explosion injured a U.S. soldier. The base had about 1.5 square kilometers (3.9 km2), which had not yet been cleared of land mines. Since early 2002, over 7,000 mines had been removed from Bagram.

President Karzai announced formation of four committees to accelerate the disarmament of warlord armies and rebuild the Afghan National Army. The disarmament commission would be headed by Vice President Abdul Karim Khalili. The commission for reinstatement would be headed by Deputy Defence Minister Attiqullah Barlaam. Two army generals, Rahim Wardak and former Gulzarak Khan was at the head of recruitment and training of committees.

People in Spin Boldak, Afghanistan found posters threatening death to anyone supporting the US-backed government of President Karzai.

January 12: In Balkh, in Afghanistan, an electronics repairman and a boy of 14 were killed immediately when a bomb hidden inside a tape recorder detonated. An unidentified man left the recorder in the store, saying he would return later. When the man did not return, the repairman insertion of batteries, triggering the explosion.

In Shebergan, Afghan authorities arrested a man suspected of masterminding the assassination warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum and his top deputies. The man had admitted acting on the orders of the Taliban and al-Qaeda.

Leaflets distributed in Peshawar, Pakistan, said a group that calling itself the Secret Army of Muslim Mujahideen "claimed responsibility for at least 50 attacks in Afghanistan, mainly U.S. soldiers and bases near Afghanistan's eastern border.

January 14: U.S. special forces found 322 107 mm rockets in the vicinity of Zarin Kalay, near Khost.

The Afghan security chief of Spin Boldak, said minor clashes had been reported recently between Afghan forces and suspected Taliban members. He said small groups of Taliban fighters led by Hafiz Abdur Rahim local commander, were operating in Kandahar and other southern provinces.

Parliament Slovakia voted 113-10 to approve the extension of its engineering unit of 40 military members in Afghanistan. Working in Afghanistan since September 2002 engineers worked on major rehabilitation projects, such as the runway at Bagram airport.

Iran and Afghanistan signed a contract on a two-phase project meant the transfer of electricity from Iran to Herat.

January 15: U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz took a day trip for projects in Afghanistan, including a women's hospital in Kabul, the road work done by U.S. military personnel and mock attacks by Afghan National Army. Later, Wolfowitz met with President Karzai, Turkish General Hilmi Akin Zorlu (Commander of International Security Assistance Force), and dined with U.S. troops.

EU External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten announced more than 230 million in aid to Afghanistan, to improve stability and human rights. In 2002 the EU spent 275 million to Afghanistan.

January 16: Fifty-two Afghan agents of the Afghan Presidential Protective Service formed from a basic training course offered by the U.S. Assistance Bureau of Diplomatic Security Anti-Terrorism Department.

17 January: The Security Council voted unanimously to extend and improve to control the remnants of the former Taliban government of Afghanistan and Al Qaeda.

About 5,000 Afghan policemen were sent to the southern town of Spin Boldak, because of reports that some ex-Taliban militants were trying to re-group in the region.

The Council's invitation to Pakistan cricket, the cricket team from Afghanistan arrived in Peshawar, Pakistan to compete in the Cornelius Trophy. The team from Afghanistan was expected to play four matches in three days during his visit of 18 days.

January 18: In the one year anniversary of his first visit to Camp X-Ray at Guantnamo Bay, Cuba, the International Committee of the Red Cross has renewed its call for the U.S. to clarify the situation of hundreds of terrorist suspects who was holding without charge. So far, the U.S. designated as unlawful combatants rather than prisoners of war.

In a warm-up game a day, Afghanistan's cricket team won a draw against Pakistan in Peshawar. Chasing 219 runs for victory in 30 overs, Afghanistan was 199 for six in 27 overs when the match was canceled due to darkness.

Twelve Afghan women in Kabul took road tests of cars. The program was sponsored by Medica Mondiale driving. Women were not allowed to drive in Afghanistan since 1992.

January 20: In the middle of his three-day tour of India, Afghanistan, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Mohammed Sharif announced that India has pledged to provide 100,000 tons of wheat and 15,000 tons of fertilizer to Afghanistan. However, Pakistan remained in a deadlock highway plans because they had objected on the Indian food that passes through its territory.

The head of the Afghan Center in Jalalabad cable appealed to Supreme Court Afghanistan to reverse its decision Dec. 12, 2002 that banned cable television. However, the chief justice Fazl Hadi Shinwari Mowlawi reaffirmed its decision initial. Shinwari said the decision was based on Islam, and that the Court regard cable broadcasts to be immoral and against Afghan traditions and Islamic principles.

A nursery complex in northern Kabul, which was refurbished by British contingent of the International Security Assistance Force to reopen the school. The project of $ 20,000, paid by the British government, charity and the soldiers themselves, included new paint, new windows, new boiler, tables, carpets, electricity and running water.

January 22: About 25 miles east of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Afghan soldiers seized more than 1,000 containers of acetic anhydride, a chemical used in processing opium into heroin.

President Karzai issued a decree to combat illegal excavations and smuggling antiquities.

January 23: A reported from the British Royal Institute of International Affairs has stated that a considerable part of the money channeled to the reconstruction of Afghanistan had been spent on humanitarian aid. Moreover, much of the 5.8 billion U.S. dollars pledged by international donors had not yet arrived.

24 January: In different villages near Spin Boldak, Afghanistan, U.S. forces and Afghan troops arrested 20 armed suspects, including two alleged Taliban commanders. rocket launchers, explosives and automatic rifles were also recovered.

An Afghan doctor and four doctors even Kiyose, Tokyo, Japan under a program sponsored by Japan International Cooperation Agency. The five medical specialists were learning a procedure for diagnosis of tuberculosis-base the Research Institute of Tuberculosis. They would return to Afghanistan on Feb. 13.

January 25: A district security chief of the province Logar, Afghanistan, was kidnapped by suspected smugglers of antiquities.

January 26: Gunmen attacked a convoy of UN agency for refugees, UNHCR, as it traveled through Nangarhar province, about 40 km (25 miles) west of Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Two policemen were killed and four other men were believed to have died. One of the alleged perpetrators was arrested.

Near the town of Shkin in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, unidentified gunmen shot and killed two Afghan soldiers and one civilian, injuring the other.

January 27: President Hamid Karzai ordered an investigation of the Cabinet to ban cable television broadcasts that had been dictated by Chief Justice Fazl Hadi Shinwari a week earlier.

At least 18 people were killed near the enemy mountains north of Spin Boldak, when coalition forces led by the U.S. fought almost 80 rebels in Afghanistan. B-1 bombers, F-16s and an AC-130 were called to support coach, including two Norwegian F-16s, one of them dropped a pair of laser-guided bombs on a bunker. It was reported that this marked the first time that a Norwegian aircraft had fired hostile forces in combat since the Second World War. The B-1s dropped nineteen 2000 pounds (900 kg) bombs.

The United Nations held a ceremony reopening of thirty communal baths (baths) in Kabul, Afghanistan, bringing citizens back to a female institution vital to their social needs and hygiene.

January 28: The U.S. warplanes, including B-1 Lancer bombers, F-16 Fighting Falcon and AC-130 helicopters, fighter jets bombed rebel in the mountains near Spin Boldak, Afghanistan. About 200 U.S. special forces were engaged in the battle of the mountain.

Before giving your State of the Union speech, U.S. President George W. Bush spoke by telephone with President Karzai and reiterated the commitment of the U.S. to see "a prosperous Afghanistan, democratic and stable "and that the U.S. would" stay the course ".

In Afghanistan, a decree of the governor of Herat Province, Ismail Khan allowed women to perform on television, radio and stage for the first time since 1992. This move came in response to charges that Khan was obstructing the advancement of women in the province.

At Bagram Air Base, headquarters north of Kabul, Army Major South Korean Lee Kyu-sang shot and killed the captain Kim Hyo-sung. The captain had refused a request to talk quietly over the phone. The call involved the leasing of construction equipment with some Afghans. Kyu-sang, who said he was unaware the gun was loaded, was arrested.

January 29: The United Nations Environment Program reported More than half of Kabul's water supply was going to waste. He found that the children work 12-hour shifts in dangerous factories, and sleeping on their machines. In Herat, only 10% of the 150 public taps were working. There, and in Mazari Sharif, Kandahar and Kabul, the team found waste from hospitals, streets and an abandoned well.

In Adi Ghar mountain area about 14 miles (23 km) north of Spin Boldak, Afghanistan, coalition forces led U.S., composed of 300 men, identified 27 caves and had canceled 12 of them. The caves contain provisions such as food, water, blankets, fuel, mules, and signs that the wounded men had been treated. U.S. and allied aircraft, then hit the cave complex with 500 and 2,000 pounds (220 and 900 kg) bombs. In exchange of fire, at least 18 rebels were killed. A U.S. AH-64 Apache helicopter came under small arms fire. This was part of Operation Mongoose.

President Karzai sacked his minister Interior and replaced him with Ali Ahmad Jalali, a formermujahideen (holy warrior) commander who fought in the resistance during aa Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

UNESCO and the Afghan government launched a major project to boost literacy throughout Afghanistan. The project was funded by a U.S. $ 500,000 contribution Japanese government through a trust fund. The main focus of the project involved the development of production of literacy teaching materials for teachers. To date, only 51.9 percent of men over the age of 15 and only 21.9 percent of women the same age group were literate.

January 30: An MH-60, an adapted version of Black Hawk, crashed during training near Bagram Air Base, killing four people.

Sweden announced it would contribute U.S. $ 5.9 million to help Afghanistan to pay debts to the IMF and World Bank.

January 31: An anti-tank mine equipped with a mortar destroyed a bridge outside Kandahar, Afghanistan, killing up to 15 people traveling on a bus. The bus driver Ahmad Zia, and a 12 year old boy survived.

February

February 1: The Afghan Presidential Protective Service has started to assist U.S. agents to protect President Karzai.

The U.S. base in Gardez was designated as the location of a coordination center for reconstruction projects in the region.

February 2: Under of a UN global campaign to reduce deaths among mothers and newborns, UNICEF began a week long project to vaccinate 740,000 women in four large [cities Afghan.

February 3: A confidential memorandum from Deputy Head of Canada, Vice-Admiral Greg Maddison for the head of the Canadian defense staff, Gen. Ray Henault, said the command of UN forces in Afghanistan "was not viable with Canada as lead country" without the support of multinationals. Canada was scheduled to take command in August 2003.

Nabil Okal, an Israeli military court sentenced a Palestinian man to 27 years in prison for training in Afghanistan with al-Qaeda. Okal said he was innocent.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reported that Afghanistan remained the largest world producer of opium despite efforts to stop trade and cultivation.

U.S. troops 82nd Airborne Division completed compensation more than 75 caves in the Adi Ghar mountains of Afghanistan.

February 4: Afghan government forces clashed with suspected Taliban fighters and Al-Qaeda in the mountainous region of northern Shawali Kot city of Kandahar. Two Dutch F-16 aircraft bombed the cave complex as part of a follow-up to the attack.

Twenty female teachers from Afghanistan began a one month training course at universities in five women in Japan The program was sponsored by the Ministry Foreign affiliated Japan International Cooperation Agency.

February 5: Helge Boes, a CIA counter-terrorism official was killed and two wounded in a grenade accident during a live fire exercise in eastern Afghanistan.

February 6: The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Ruud Lubbers, chief of the Mission and the U.S. Permanent Ambassador Kevin Moley, signed agreements for U.S. contributions to the humanitarian needs of $ 15 million for Afghanistan and $ 12.1 million for Iraq.

Feb. 7: U.S. troops were attacked while they were searching a compound south of Gardez, in the Afghanistan in an operation at dawn following an intelligence report. There were no casualties on both sides.

Residents of Kabul reported a man on a bicycle scattered leaflets of a hitherto unknown Islamist group (Pio called Mujahideen (holy warriors) of Islam), requiring the output immediate termination of U.S. forces from Afghanistan and return to strict Islamic dress code for women.

A report of the Post-Conflict Evaluation Unit of the United Nations Environment revealed that 99% of the Sistan wetlands in Afghanistan and Iran were dried.

The rebels attacked an Afghan army post in the Ayub Mama post in Helmand province, near the borders thePakistani, killing five soldiers and wounding four others. Two Afghan soldiers were kidnapped.

Twenty-five men arrived at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay, pushing the number of terror suspects at the naval base of about 650. The newcomers came a day after the Pentagon released a recent increase in suicide attempts among detainees at the base.

February 8: Defence Minister German, Peter Struck, said the U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had assured Struck he would support the German proposal for NATO to take over.

Feb. 9: On the orders of President Karzai, 138 people including 72 Taliban members were released from Afghan prisons in a goodwill gesture before the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. Freed were arrested who were in critical condition, more than 60 years, serving as misdemeanors or women who had completed their half of the sentence.

Afghanistan launched a campaign to recruit more women for training in the national police academy in Kabul. Priority should be given to women who were denied opportunities education under the former Taliban rulers Afghanistan. To date, there were 29 women among the nearly 1,500 students in training.

February 10: Afghanistan became the 89th nation to join the International Criminal Tribunal Court. The ratification came into effect May 1, 2003. The court will sentence accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. It will intervene only when a country is unable or lacks the political will to conduct the trial.

Germany and the Netherlands assumed joint command of the force of international peacekeepers in Afghanistan. The command was given by Maj-Gen Hilmi Akin Zorlu Turkey during a ceremony at a secondary school in Kabul. Dignitaries present included President Karzai, German Defense Minister Peter Struck and his defense minister Benk Korthals Dutch. As Lieutenant General Norbert van Heyst vowed to maintain law and order, a rocket landed a hundred yards from a German base in Kabul. Struck was taken to shelter During the visit to Kabul when two rockets landed in their vicinity. To date, the German contingent in the peacekeeping force numbered about 2,500. The Turkish contingent numbered about 1,400, but was likely to be reduced to 160 men.

February 11: U.S. bombers fired laser-guided bombs, 25 suspected armed Taleban near the village of Lejay in the Baghran valley. Afghan authorities said the attacks killed 17 civilians.

Feb. 12: Canada has said it will send up to 2000 soldiers (which consists of a battle group and a brigade headquarters) for Afghanistan later this year to strengthen the peacekeeping UN mission. To date, Canada has had two warships, two maritime patrol aircraft, three transport plans, and about 850 soldiers in the region in search of Al Qaeda or Taliban Afghanistan cooperatives.

President Karzai urged the international community not to abandon Afghanistan in the event of a US-led war U.S. in Iraq. Such a move, he told the BBC, would lead to instability not only in Afghanistan but within the region.

key members of the State Senate U.S. criticized the Bush administration to talk about the difficulties still faced in Afghanistan. Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar said the government appears to be losing interest in Afghanistan.

The British announced that it had granted political asylum to three former Taliban fighters. None fighters had been involved in direct combat with British troops and the U.S..

February 13: In Operation Eagle Fury, the coalition aircraft dropped four 500 pound bombs and fired several hundred rounds of ammunition in caves. Special Forces patrol had collected carcasses abandoned ammunition and rocket launchers. 15 fighters were captured by more than 100 U.S. military, while around 30 rebels were believed to have suffered heavy injuries.

The U.S. Congress stepped in to find $ 295M in humanitarian aid and funds to rebuild Afghanistan after the Bush administration does not got all the money in the last budget request. In its budget proposal for 2003, the White House did not request money for the costs of humanitarian relief and reconstruction in Afghanistan. The chairman of the committee that distributes foreign aid, Jim Kolbe, said that when he asked administration officials for failing to request further funds, was given no satisfactory explanation. The $ 295M was nowhere near the $ 825M promised in a bill signed by Bush in December 2002.

Another detainee attempted suicide at Camp X-Ray at Guantnamo Bay, Cuba. It was a suicide attempt for 16 arrests since it began.

February 14: In Kabul, four armed robbers stormed the office of a French charity (Solidarity, working to help farmers), tied up two employees Afghan and stole money. Police Chief Basir Falanga general said authorities were investigating and had promised to find the thieves.

Suspected remnants Taliban fired two rockets into southern Afghan city of Spin Boldak, but no casualties. A third rocket landed near a Pakistani border post.

February 15: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said the Bush administration continues to maintain the belief that Afghanistan still belonged to the Afghans. He said U.S. forces were in Afghanistan to promote the goal of long-term stability and independence through the development of local institutions. In response to concerns about the U.S. shifting its focus to Iraq, he said that everything that happens in the world, the U.S. will not abandon Afghanistan.

U.S. Lt. Gen. Dan McNeill met separately with President Karzai and village elders in Helmand Province, to discuss a coalition attack in the previous week, that allegedly left several civilians dead. Karzai expressed concern over the safety of civilians in operations conducted by US-led coalition soldiers hunting Islamic militants. Local officials and villagers in Helmand province said at least 17 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed in coalition bombing in the mountainous region this week. The U.S. military said only one boy of eight years old, was wounded in the operation, adding that coalition forces had the right to self defense.

February 16: In Baluchistan, Pakistan, strong winds and torrential rains caused the collapse of a wall in a refugee camp Latifabad, killing a nine year old girl and injuring three members of his family. Some 50 Afghan families in a camp Mohammad Kheil also lost their homes and tents in storms. At the end of the week, UNHCR distributed tents, food, coal and blankets to the affected refugees, along with 150 tents and 900 blankets for refugees from the storm-hit Chagham in refugee village in Baluchistan Dalbandin area.

UN officials in Kabul said that the rains have brought signs of recovery in southern Afghanistan, where the reservoirs are filling in the drought ravaged Kandahar and Helmand provinces.

Afghanistan and UNICEF announced a program to train back thousands of teachers, particularly women forced to leave work during the Taliban regime. About 70 000 teachers in 29 of the 32 provinces will begin to receive training on-the-job in the coming weeks. Teachers will be instructed on new ways to teach Dari and Pashto. They will also be trained to teach awareness of the dangers of landmines.

The UN said the authorities were searching for 100 new homes for needy families who recently moved to the side of the cliff caves that surround the famed Buddha statues destroyed by Taliban in central Afghanistan.

The United Nations Programme World Foods began distributing the Afghan people for 10,000 tons of fortified high energy biscuits, donated by the Indian government recently. President Karzai inaugurated the program by distributing biscuits to students of Amani High School in Kabul.

Three children drowned when they were swept away by flood waters near Kandahar.

February 17: The Afghan authorities, workers and citizens gathered at the museum in Kabul for the opening of two newly renovated rooms. The objective classes was to begin repairing the collection of thousands of statues that were destroyed in spring 2001. The British Government, with the advice of the British Museum paid for the renovation, and the British soldiers took part in the work. Japan promised photographic equipment, Greece was to rebuild one wing, the Foundation Asia was to develop an inventory, and the U.S. pledged more money for a catering service. UNESCO was working on windows and water.

Official in Kunduz province ordered the closure of video shops. The order was in response to Western and Indian films containing violence and nudity.

A statement sent to the Pakistani press called on Afghans to wage a holy war against U.S. forces and US-backed government in Afghanistan. The statement was attributed the head of Taliban fugitive Mullah Mohammed Omar.

An avalanche caused by heavy rains killed two people and wounded four in Kunar province, Afghanistan. Avalanches and snow blocked the Salang Tunnel in northern Afghanistan.

February 18: A fire at an observation post outside the U.S. headquarters outside the military U.S. Bagram air base, forcing a quick evacuation. The cause of the fire was not known. No one was injured.

The United Nations new confirmed reports of Taliban training camps in eastern Afghanistan.

A 81-year old Ohio man, Daniel Chick, armed with two pistols and wearing military-style pants and a sweater, was briefly detained in Haifa, Israel. He told police he was on his way to Afghanistan in the hope of hunting Osama bin Laden and claim a reward of $ 25 million. He tried to board a boat to Cyprus. To avoid facing charges after appearing before a judge, Chick agreed to give up their weapons and leave Israel. Supposedly, after leaving the U.S., Chick made stops in Germany, to visit his daughter and Italy, where he caught a flight to Israel. His attorney was Gideon Costa.

February 19: Operation Viper began as a U.S. CH-47 Chinook helicopter carrying U.S. troops landed in the province of Helmand in southern Afghanistan. His mission was to hunt down Taliban leaders believed hiding there.

The U.S. appointed former Afghan prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar as a global terrorist after tying him for acts of terror committed by al-Qaida and the Taliban. U.S. financial institutions were forced to freeze all financial assets belonging to Mr. Hekmatyat.

The U.S. agreed to provide 60 million U.S. dollars to Afghanistan to train a national police force and to end drugs. The agreement for the projects was signed by Zalmay Rassoul and U.S. ambassador to Kabul Robert Finn.

Japan agreed to provide 35 million dollars for a project disarming the militias in Afghanistan. So far, it was estimated there were between 150,000 and 200,000 militiamen in Afghanistan. Aid should be used to construct facilities designed to provide soldiers with a high education and professional training.

February 20: President Karzai left Kabul for a visit to four nations (Japan, Malaysia, America and India). Karzai is accompanied by Foreign Minister Dr. Abdullah, a high-level official delegation.

In Washington, DC, George Secretary General of NATO Robertsondiscussed a proposal that, in summer 2003, NATO can help in Canada when he took over from the Netherlands Germany and in peacekeeping operations in Afghanistan. "Wel be looking at that over the coming weeks," he said "to see if there is a consensus on So it makes sense, the best work can be done. "

Seeking greater ethnic balance, the defense minister of Afghanistan Mohammed Fahim announced 15 generals who replaced ethnicTajik and created a new high-level post. The ousted generals were replaced by officers from the Pashtun, Uzbek and Hazara ethnic groups. The new position of a fourth deputy minister of defense was given the Gen.Gul Zarak Zadran, a Pashtun. Abdul Rashid Dostum has maintained its position as one of four deputy ministers. The generals ousted will be given other jobs within the ministry.

In Kabul, Afghanistan, a new committee was formed to further evaluate the laws and submit proposals its findings to the cabinet. The committee included Abdul Rahim Karimi, Enayatullah Nazari, Abdul Salam Azimi, Musa Ashari, and Musa Maruf.

In Kabul, a committee headed by Minister of Information and Culture Sayyed Makhdum Rahin was formed to oversee the March 21 celebration of Nawruz (Norouz), the Afghan new year.

February 21: President Karzai arrived in Tokyo, Japan to attend a conference of nations involved in promising toAfghanistan donations. In a news conference, Karzai expressed confidence that his government would succeed in establishing a unified Afghan fighting force, and stabilize areas beyond Kabul. But he also acknowledged that the fighting continued between rival warlords and the pockets of terrorism continue to plague areas along the Afghan-Pakistan border. He estimates that about 100,000 irregular troops have yet to disarm. Japan is the country's second largest donor to Afghanistan after the U.S.

Canada announced that it would not be able to run peacekeeping operations in Afghanistan this year alone, and asked NATOhelp. Canada will send a tactical headquarters and a brigade-level to Afghanistan in August 2003 to assume command of the force member of the United Nations 4000. Canada's commitment could involve as many troops in each of 2.800 of two rotations of six months. General responsible for international security policy at the Canadian Defense Department resigned over the decision.

David Singh, public information officer for the Assistance Mission in Afghanistan United Nations, warned staff to take the following precautions anonymous threats warning of retaliation in the larger context of the possibility of war between America and Iraq.

In a press conference, U.S. military spokesman Colonel Roger King, said in the last 24 hours operation Viperbrought on the arrest of seven suspected members of the Taliban, bringing the number during the mission from to about 25.

German Defense Minister Peter Struck said Germany could withdraw its 2,500 soldiers from the 4700 strong International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) If a war in Afghanistan began in Iraq and increased tensions in the region.

Pakistan donated arms and ammunition to the Afghan National Army which means an attempt to strengthen Pakistan's influence in the post-Taliban Afghanistan. The weapons include 5,000 guns, 180 mortars, launchers 75rocket 10,000 grenade and mortar fire. Pakistan also will help train Afghan army personnel.

The managing director of Southern Gas Company Sui informed that Pakistan needed to complete a pipeline project to import natural gas by the end of 2003 to meet growing gas demand in the coming years. The three projects under discussion included a gas pipeline Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan, Qatar, and a gas pipeline Pakistan.

February 22: A conference of international donors in one day "to help President Karzai tighten control on Afghanistan held Tokyo, Japan had about 45 donor countries and international organizations present. The meeting, convened by Japan, sought to raise money for efforts to disarm the warlords and extend the authority of President Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan.

In Islamabad, Pakistan, Afghanistan Minister Petroleum and Mines Juma Mohammad Mohammadi and other administrators of Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed to invite India to participate in a potential $ 2,500,000,000 pipeline project to connect the states.

The fighting between supporters of General Abdul Rashid Dostum and General Mohammed Atta blew up a rival near Maymana, the capital ofFaryab Province. The two sides fought with machine guns, rocket launchers and artillery. Six civilians were killed in the crossfire.

In Tokyo, Japan pledged President Karzai 51 million dollars in aid from Japan (U.S. $ 35 million), the U.S. (U.S. $ 10 million), UK and Canada (U.S. $ 2.2 million).

A major fire swept through a warehouse of food and fuel in the central bazaar in Jalalabad. Six cars, and large quantities of motor oil, flour, mayonnaise and other products were consumed by fire.

The Department of Customs Administration Tawainese the Ministry of Finance announced that Afghanistan was included in a list of eleven countries, with rates given econd-tier, in the hope of facilitating the development of trade.

February 23: A Committee International Red Cross launched the project in Bamyan which provided women with vegetable seeds and training to care for family plots more productive.

An Afghan soldier working with U.S. special forces was killed and another wounded in a shooting in a compound in Tarin Kot in the east in the province of Uruzgan, Afghanistan. The clash also left an enemy combatant killed and another wounded.

In a new report entitled "Disaster Management Framework for Afghanistan," UN in Afghanistan asked to develop plans for responding to natural disasters. Getting that capability will probably take at least 10 years, said the report.

About five alleged Taliban fighters Afghan security forces fired about 160 kilometers (100 miles) northeast of Kandahar province, near Zabol in the Pakistani border. The exchange of fire that followed left one attacker dead. security force commander Haji Wazir Mohammed was wounded seriously.

The UN asked donors to help fund the repatriation of the expected 1.2 million Afghan refugees next year. The repatriation will begin March 2 and will cost U.S. $ 195 million, but, to date donors have only provided U.S. $ 15.4 million.

Seven Taliban suspects with a stockpile of weapons and landmines were arrested at a house in Kandahar.

February 24: Afghan Minister for Mines and Industries Juma Mohammad Mohammadi and Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Farhad Ahmed were among eight people aboard a Cessna, which crashed in the Arabian Sea shortly after takeoff. The aircraft headed for Baluchistan, Pakistan near the Iranian border. Also aboard the aircraft were three other Afghan officials, two crew members and Sun Changsheng, CEO of MCC Resources Development. They had traveled for a mining project copper and gold being run by a Chinese company in Balochistan. Time employees say that it was clear and sunny in Karachi at the time of the accident. The aircraft crossed the border into Pakistan's military a "no-fly zone" before he fell overboard.

Jean-Marie Guhenno, the undersecretary-general in charge of the peacekeeping United Nations, urged immediate action to improve security in Afghanistan where international aid agencies have been threatened by kidnappings and violence. Guehenno referred to a series of recent incidents, including mines and grenades attacks in Kandahar and Kunduz, and kidnapping threats in Kabul, Jalalabad and Kunar provinces, where security had been strengthened. He said contingency plans were made for the withdrawal of UN agencies from certain areas of Afghanistan. He also added that human rights continued to be undermined by safety generally poor, including reports of extrajudicial killings, extortion and forced displacement.

Lt. Col. Thomas Lobbering, a spokesman for German denied reports that Germany intends to pull its peacekeepers out ofAfghanistan if war in Iraq.

The Asian Development Bank announced plans to provide approximately U.S. $ 200 million in financial aid for reconstruction ofAfghanistan this year. 150 million dollars are dedicated to the rehabilitation of infrastructure; $ 50 million for agriculture.

The road between Gardez and Khost was cut by supporters of warlord Bacha Khan Zadran, after local authorities seized a dozen vehicles of its militia is. Paktia Gov. Raz Mohammad Dalili sent a delegation of elders to solve the problem.

Norwegian troops were sent to Afghanistan for a tour of three months. The soldiers included a group of army commandos and Navy of Norway, with training in winter and in mountain warfare and mine clearance personnel. The exact number of troops was not disclosed. Norway also announced it would withdraw its six F-16 fighters to the end of March 2003.

President Karzai came to Malaysia for a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement.

Telephone Systems International Purchase 4 million in GSM switching equipment from Siemens Mobile Communications. The equipment, including a Siemens switch, the IST would support subsidiary, the Afghan communication wireless company. The switch will be installed in Kabul.

February 25, Habibullah Jan, a district administrator in the province of Nimroz in Dilaram, 135 km northwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan, was assassinated. Jan body guard was wounded in the attack.

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), about 3,400 tons of opium were produced in Afghanistan in 2002, making it the largest opium producer in the world, followed by Myanmar and Laos. The report also said more than three quarters of the heroin sold in Europe originates in Afghanistan. UNODC urged President Karzai to take a tougher stance on the production of illicit crops.

The Afghan government found a giant cache of weapons, including mortars, missiles and anti-tank mines in an abandoned area in eastern Nangarhar near the border with Pakistan. Mortars, AK-41 anti-tank mines, BM-12 missiles of Chinese manufacturing and rounds of ammunition were found when troops searched the compound in Banda district, 70 km (45 miles) south of Jalalabad.

An official from the British SIS killed two Afghans a Makarov pistol during a shootout at the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul. The shooting was caused by two Afghans who pulls a gun in an attempt to kidnap him. The Briton, identified as Colin Berry, was also shot in the abdomen during an exchange of gunfire. Berry had been operating in Afghanistan for several months earlier about covert operations in relation the opium trade. He was also actively involved in detecting and recovering Stinger (USA), torch (UK) and Soviet surface the missile launchers and air. After the incident Berry was aided by U.S. Special Forces who had been working beside you. He was taken to hospital, "Italian War Victims' interim treatment while a helicopter was arranged for a flight to neighboring Pakistan. While waiting for the U.S. team was instructed to "pull". As a result of Berry was discovered and arrested by the Afghan Ministry of Interior – the secret police. They immediately arrested Berry in a secret location for questioning.

February 26: President Karzai visited the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington, DC. The which was to be a panel discussion turned into a private audience with television cameras and reporters. The Bush administration has apologized for the Karzai way he was treated by the Senate. At the hearing, Karzai gave an optimistic view of the situation in Afghanistan, to the dismay of some senators. Karzai challenged the beliefs 100,000 militiamen who live in provinces that are beyond the influence of his government. He also turned down offers of senators to lobby for an expansion of the force international, saying he prefers to expand the new Afghan national army, which so far had about 3,000 trained soldiers.

Canada announced it would be unable to make any substantial deployment of ground troops to Iraq because of its commitment to peacekeeping in Afghanistan.

Afghan security forces found an enormous cache of weapons, including mortars, missiles and anti-tank mines in an abandoned compound in the region of Nangarhar.

February 27: During a White House meeting, President Karzai asked President George W. Bush "do more for us in making the lives of the Afghan people better, more stable, more peaceful. Bush said the U.S. had "a desire to improve human life" in Afghanistan, but offered no public assurances that a war with Iraq did not prevent the recovery of Afghanistan.

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tommy G. Thompson met with President Karzai and renewed the commitment of the department of health promotion in Afghanistan, including human resources, training and work with the Department of U.S. Defense to rebuild a women's hospital in Kabul.

The UN spokesman Manoel de Almeida e Silva said the UN suspended operations in the district Gosfandi Sar-e Pol province due to friction between factions.

Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto told an audience at Maryville University in St. Louis, Missouri thatAfghanistan still needs attention in the world, which has been diverted to a possible U.S. war against Iraq.

February 28: Using a gun, and then a sub-machine gun, one Afghan killed two policemen guarding the U.S. consulate inKarachi, Pakistan. Five other policemen and a passerby were injured.

U.S. troops discovered a mechanism for making bombs "near Jalalabad. The troops found the material after searching five compounds in Shinwar district. Also recovered were three 82 mm mortar rounds, one grenade launcher, five machine guns, 1,000 mortars, 300 rockets, mines and thousands of cases of ammunition.

Antonella Deledda, a representative from Central Asia to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, said from Tashkent, Uzbekistan that the steady flow of opium and heroin from Afghanistan was causing increasing drug addiction and AIDS infections across the region, especially in Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.

Ruud Lubbers, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, traveled by road from Kabul to Mazari Sharif and met with the gentlemen from war Abdul Rashid Dostum, Atta Mohammed and Ustad Sayeed. Minister Inayatullah Nazerialso Afghan refugees participated in the negotiations. Lubbers complained of insecurity and ethnic tensions and urging warlords to unite to help Afghans return to their homes.

Afghan Defense Minister Mohammed Fahim went to Washington, DC, for a six-day trip intended to talks with U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Fahim was also traveling with Deputy Defense Minister Gen. Hatiqullah Baryalai. Speaking to reporters before his flight left Kabul, Fahim urged the U.S. to provide greater cooperation and financial assistance to rebuild the Afghan national army.

March

March 1: Two Afghan government soldiers were wounded in an explosion in Kandahar.

Thousands of people gathered outside a police station in the district of Dasht-e Barchi Kabul, Afghanistan, after allegations that a policeman tried to kidnap a woman there. There were also claims that police officers had raped two women. Surrounding the police station, the demonstrators wanted those responsible for the alleged attack to be punished. The protesters also named their own candidates to the district police. Some dealers store closed in solidarity. The policemen were injured by protesters, who attacked with stones in the area West of Kabul Dasht-e-Barchi. Two civilians were also reported wounded. Shots were fired by police.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced that 395,752 Afghans had returned home voluntarily fromIran since a UNHCR program in conjunction with Tehran to the effect began on April 9, 2002. (See details of the programs of the UNHCR Afghan repatriation)

U.S. troops raided the compound of Haji Ghalib, the head of security for Ghanikhel district of the province Nangarhar, Afghanistan, arresting him and two others and seizing heavy weapons. Ghalib son, Mohammed Shafiq, said the U.S. forces also seized rockets, mortars and a large amount of anti-tank mines during the arrest. The two people arrested along with Ghalib were not identified.

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was arrested in an operation jointly by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents and Pakistani police in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

Three Afghan soldiers were wounded when his truck hit a mine during a routine patrol in the Panjwai district, 30 km (20 miles) southwest of Kandahar.

March 2: The San Francisco Chronicle Afghan families affected by poverty to earn money by selling their daughters were on the rise.

Germany withdrew its forces KSK elite anti-terrorist Afghanistan. The German defense ministry refused to comment on the report.

guards from the Afghan border in Pakistan have arrested a man, Sayed Wali, in eastern Afghanistan, accused of illegally entering Afghanistan. They accused him of spying for his Pakistan. He was arrested in Shinwar district near Torkham.

March 3: At 06:00, a rocket hit a house in Kandahar, Afghanistan, wounding one man and his wife and causing panic in the area. His wife, Bibi Koh, was in critical condition.

U.S. military aircraft scattered leaflets over southern Afghanistan, according to residents in Spin Boldak, Afghanistan. The leaflets offered prize money to help Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri. The leaflets did not say how to collect the money or who to contact to report Bin Laden.

The U.S. military has led to a new valley in southern Afghanistan in search of fugitive leaders of the ousted Taliban regime. 12 people were arrested in the past three days more than 60 rifles and two weapons caches were discovered in the valley Baghni. One of the weapons caches were found in a well, wrapped in plastic and tied to a rope.

March 4: U.S. special forces found 96 rocket-propelled grenades, five rifles and ammunition after searching a compound in the border town Southeast Spin Boldak, Afghanistan.

A U.S. military vehicle hit a four year old boy in Afghanistan to the west of Kandahar city, Afghanistan. The boy suffered a severe head injury and was medically evacuated to Bagram Air Base for evaluation. Until March 7 he was in stable condition.

In Copenhagen, Denmark, two Danish officers faced charges of negligence in connection preliminary one-month-April 6, 2002 explosion that killed five members of the bomb squad in Afghanistan.

President Karzai has arrived in Qatar to attend the summit of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) to discuss the crisis in the Middle East.

A U.S. soldier was taken to a hospital in Bagram, Afghanistan after being injured when his vehicle overturned inBamyan Province. The soldier was in stable condition.

Gunmen killed Sher Nawaz Khan, a Pakistani intelligence officer, in an area border near Afghanistan. Kahn was riding her bike to work in the border town of Wana, 180 miles (290 km) south of Peshawar. The gunmen went on a Khan car, then shot several times after it hit the motorcycle.

Qari Abdul Wali, a military commander of the hardline Islamic regime Taliban, said from a hideout near the Afghan town of Spin Boldak of the arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would not weaken the Al Qaeda network.

The U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has pledged a $ 50 million line of credit to support private sector investment in Afghanistan. This was in addition to the range of $ 50 OPIC million in credit to the Bush administration announced in January 2002. A project will be to build an international five star hotel in Kabul to be managed by Hyatt International, to which OPIC anticipates providing $ 35 million in financing and political risk insurance. OPIC will also provide political risk insurance to allow a U.S. manufacturer to donate a machine for compressed earth block construction of three schools at least one of which is for girls.

March 5: U.S. and Italian military officials announced that 500 Italian troops will soon replace a similar number of U.S. troops deployed in eastern Afghanistan's Khost. About 1,000 Italian soldiers from Task Force NIBBIO had arrived at Bagram Air Base. Officials said that 500 Italians will stay in Bagram and the remaining 500 were to take over in mid-March of Americans at Camp Salerno, a coalition base near the eastern city of Khost. To date, 8,000 of 13,000 coalition forces were in the U.S..

President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai arrived in India for a four-day visit. Karzai's agenda also included boosting bilateral trade and investment and seeking help for their war-ravaged country.

Near Bagram, Afghanistan, paratroopers of the 82nd U.S. Airborne seized 132 82 mm mortars, 34 pieces of unexploded ordnance and "several" anti-tank and anti-personnel mines.

One civilian died and three were injured his jeep hit a mine in Zer-e-Koh, Afghanistan, south of Shindand Air Base in western Herat province, said warlord Ammanullah Khan.

Fighting broke out in Gosfandi, Afghanistan Sar-e Pol province between two local commanders, warlords loyal to Mohammed Atta. At least two guerrillas were killed and three wounded.

In Zer-e-Koh, Afghanistan, seven children were injured when explosives placed inside a bottle exploded.

Lt. Gen. Norbert van Heyst, commander of the International Force Security Assistance, said in Kabul, Afghanistan, that war could provide a inIraq opportunity for the remnants of Al Qaeda and Taliban forces trying to "destabilize" Afghanistan.

The residents of Khost, Afghanistan found 15 kg (32 lb) of explosives under the seat of a motorcycle. They notified the U.S. troops in nearby Chapman Air Base. The device, designed to detonate by radio was dismantled and there were no injuries.

March 6: a preferential trade agreement was signed at a ceremony in New Delhi, India presence President Karzai and Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee. The pact will allow the free trade movement of goods specified by the two countries with lower rates. The trade volume between the two countries in 2001-02 totaled $ 41,890,000. Vajpayee also announced a $ 70 million donation to rebuild a main road in Afghanistan. Commitment was included in the third of three 232-300-seat Airbus B4S to help rebuild Afghan Ariana Airlines.

"The situation of women and girls in Afghanistan, "a UN report revealed that intimidation and violence against women continues without resistance in Afghanistan. To date, Afghan women worked, studied and even hold some government posts, but in more rural areas continued being forced to marry and were victims of domestic violence, kidnapping and harassment.

U.S. military coroners ruled as homicides the Deaths in December 2002, two inmates at a U.S. base in Afghanistan. The two prisoners died in prison in makeshift premises at U.S. Afghan base north of Kabul. The autopsies found that the men had been beaten, and one had a blood clot in his lung.

At least nine suspected Al Qaeda members were killed in an operation of U.S. and Afghan troops in western Afghanistan on Ribat area where the borders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran meet.

March 7: During his three days visit to India, Karzai told a business meeting in New Delhi that he hoped India would join a project for a pipeline to transport gas from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan and Pakistan. Later, Karzai flew to the Himalayan town of Shimla, India to get an honorary doctorate in literature by his alma mater. Karzai did a postgraduate course in political science at Himachal University in 1979-1983.

Mortar rounds landed about 2.5 km (1.5 miles) from a guard tower north of Bagram Air Base.

In a small village in the province Vardakas, three men armed with AK-47s stopped a UN World Food Programme of the vehicle and blindfolded its three occupants of Afghanistan. The robbers stole radio equipment, a satellite phone and money before fleeing to the mountains on foot.

U.S. soldiers led a boy of 4 years in Afghanistan from the Central Valley Madr the basis for the treatment of suspected cases bacterial meningitis. He was in very serious condition.

U.S. Special Forces near Spin Majid, Afghanistan in Helmand province arrested seven men suspected of planning attacks against coalition forces. They were arrested with bomb-making instructions in his possession. U.S. military spokesman Colonel Roger King not say whether they were suspected of being al-Qaida terrorists or supporters of the government formerTaliban.

Sardar Sanaullah Zehri, interior minister of the Pakistani province Baluchistan, said two of the sons of Osama bin Laden were wounded and possibly held by U.S. and Afghan troops in Ribat. The White House cast doubt on the report. Later, Zehri would say it had been misunderstood.

A U.S. soldier suffered head injuries in a road accident in the province central Bamyan was evacuated to Bagram, which serves as the headquarters of coalition forces in Afghanistan. The soldier was in stable condition.

The third explosion rocked Jalalabad in two days, blowing out windows of a government office, but causing no casualties. The bomb was hidden in a sewerage. The bomb was detonated near the office of the World Food Program yesterday. The day before another exploded near a hospital.

The Republic Macedonia sent 10 soldiers to be stationed under German command in Kabul.

The fighting began when warlords men Uzbek General Abdul Rashid Dostum attacked positions held by supporters ofUstad faction Jamiat-e-Islami, Mohammad Atta in Pashtoon Kot district, south of the provincial capital of Faryab, Afghanistan. Several people were killed or wounded.

March 8: In Jalalabad, the U.S. military has released three Afghans after questioning them to a detention center U.S. on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. A U.S. helicopter flew them to Bagram Asadabad. One of free men, Saif-ur Rahman, was a security officer border in Kunar before he was arrested in December 2002.

U.S. troops participated in operations to destroy 800 "bomblets" from a cluster bomb, discovered near Mazari Sharif.

An explosion in Afghanistan Baghrami District about 15 km (9 miles) south of Kabul killed an interpreter's working international peacekeepers and slightly wounded a Dutch soldier. Both were evacuated asInternational Security Assistance Force troops blocked off the scene of the incident in a street full of shops and mud houses. The wounded man was a cable 23 years of age, with the 11th Air Mobile Brigade. The explosion was detonated by remote control.

Several people were killed or injured in an upsurge in fighting between supporters of the Uzbek warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum and Tajik commander Ustad Atta Mohammad.

Intensifying efforts to capture members of Al Qaeda, a patch of 400 square kilometers around the city of Rabat, Afghanistan was the focus of air and soil by the Pakistani army and paramilitary forces backed by U.S. CIA communications expert and monitoring.

Six doctors and other three volunteers responsible for logistics, all from Hungary came to Kabul in Afghanistan, where they will work on a German military hospital and a Dutch surgery unit as part of International Security Assistance Force.

The first Afghan radio station programmed exclusively for women began broadcasting in Kabul. The first broadcast was called "The Voice of the Women of Afghanistan." Director Jamila Mujahed said in a radio hours would be broadcast every afternoon in the local Pashtu language andDari in Kabul on 91.6 FM.

March 9: Pakistani security forces conducted raids in Jalozai and Shamshatoo, Afghan refugee camps near Peshawar. Nobody was arrested.

Masood, an Iraqi national and two Afghan men were detained in Hayatabad, Pakistan. They were questioned for involvement in the murder of a Pakistani intelligence officer (he was shot and killed on March 4 in Wana) and links suspectedal Qaeda. discs computer and other unspecified documents were recovered from their possession.

President Karzai said he hoped the Iraq war could be avoided. But he also said that the Iraqi people deserve to choose their own government.

The suicide attempt by a 22 detainee held at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay. Up To date, approximately 650 detainees from 43 countries were being held there on suspicion of links to al-Qaida and the Taliban. Until now, the men had not been charged and were not allowed lawyers. To date, five detainees were released, including three Pakistanis and two Afghans.

A U.S. airman suffered multiple fractures in his right foot after he was hit by a truck during the loading of aircraft operations at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan.

A man of 45 years in Afghanistan to the hospital at Bagram Air Base after he was shot in the leg in a hunting accident near Orgun.

10 March: Afghanistan officially activated its af domain name to Internet addresses in Afghanistan e-mail and Web sites ..

The National Democratic Front was officially launched during a ceremony at a hotel in Kabul. Its purpose was to promote Western-style democracy and act as a counterweight to Islamic fundamentalism.

The U.S. military denied reports that reinforced its presence along the northeastern border of Afghanistan with Pakistan in its ongoing hunt for fugitive al-Qaeda. Some sources in Pakistan, however, said that Osama bin Laden had been in the hills near Siakoh Nimroz Province.

Three members of a local council were dead and five injured in an explosion in the province ofKandahar Zale Dasht district in Afghanistan. The bomb appeared to be operated by remote control. Among the surviving victims Ziaul Haq were and Sher Ali Aqa.

U.S. forces in Spin Boldak in Afghanistan have detained a man after finding a cache of anti-personnel mines.

Seeking help in the capture of Osama bin Laden and Mohammed Omar, U.S. planes dropped leaflets in the region and broadcast radio messages in Spin Boldak.

11 March: President George W. Bush apologized to President Karzai for the way Karzai was treated by a U.S. Senate committee on Feb. 26. Some senators said they feared Karzai, highlighting facts like millions of children returning to school and phasing of the government of a new currency, also put a positive spin on the problems Afghanistan. One senator said, emphasizing the positive could undermine the credibility of Mr. Karzai.

A delegation of Afghan officials and legal experts are gathered in Washington, DC, completed a four-day conference got byInternational Resources Group and sponsored by the U.S. Institute of Peace. Participants worked by consensus to establish the future of the justice system in Afghanistan.

Three judges in a U.S. appeals court unanimously dismissed a challenge by prisoners of war in Afghanistan, the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The challenge is considered his being held without access to his family or a lawyer. The judges agreed that the detainees, which include, including two Britons, two Australians and twelve Kuwaitis were not protected under the U.S. Constitution.

In Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan, two rockets fired by unknown assailants hit two houses near the governor's house. No one was injured.

A soldier Afghan militia force was killed in an explosion near Barikot, on the border with Pakistan. A member of the coalition special forces and an Afghan interpreter injured.

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