A Different Place » Uncategorized http://www.alexstrick.com Kandahar & London Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:20:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 FT does Kandahar http://www.alexstrick.com/2010/02/mistakes-in-the-financial-times/ http://www.alexstrick.com/2010/02/mistakes-in-the-financial-times/#comments Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:57:31 +0000 Alex Strick van Linschoten http://www.alexstrick.com/?p=84 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Good article in yesterday’s Financial Times newspaper on Amir Mohammad Agha, very much a so-called ‘key player’ in Arghandab district of Kandahar province.  Matt Green outlined why he might be important to the viability of US forces in the district, possibly (although I don’t know this) invited down there by the 82nd Airborne to impress on Amir Mohammad Agha the importance of which way he decides to choose.  In any case, I don’t imagine any ‘decision’ taken by Amir Mohammad Agha to be public and clear-cut.

I was greatly disappointed, however, that Matt missed out on the key point when it comes to Amir Mohammad Agha — he is Mullah Mohammad Omar’s father-in-law.  (and with that, he also missed the extremely important 1980s context and just how involved Amir Mohamad Agha was involved in the early years of the Taliban movement post-1994.

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