Bombardments and economic sanctions are having a devastating effect on the lives of Afghanistan’s people

Patrick Cockburn

Afghani children from the village of Aroki, Province of Kapisa, in Afghanistan.


On 26 August last year a former engineering student named Abdul Rahman al-Logari, wearing a vest containing 25lb of explosives, was about to be searched by American soldiers guarding Kabul airport.

At the last moment, this Isis suicide bomber detonated his device, killing 13 American soldiers and between 170 and 200 Afghans who were desperately trying to get a flight out of the country.

Three days later the US fired its last missile in its 20-year-war in Afghanistan at what it said was a car near the airport into which it believed Isis members had loaded a bomb.

Patrick Cockburn is the author of War in the Age of Trump (Verso).

Source: Counterpunch

18 Jan 2022 by Patrick Cockburn

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