Awarding billions for a gas plant that wasnt even good. Counting the cost on al jazeera. Hello and welcome again to everyone im come on santa maria youre on rewind were revisiting some of the best the most influential programs for more than a decade of documentaries in the aljazeera archive as well as bringing you news of how the story has moved on since. I can 979. 00 the world woke up to news that the russian army had swept across the border into afghanistan in an attempt to prop up the communist government there it followed 18 months of civil unrest after the Peoples Democratic party seized power in 1978 however the p. D. P. Is radical plans including land reforms and equality of the sexes as well as modernizing traditional islamic civil and marriage laws that all spawned the guerrilla Resistance Movement known as the mujahedeen what followed was a decade of bloody civil war with pakistan in the United States covertly supporting the islamic rebels against russian backed Government F
Republicans being forced to rethink grand plans for a big celebration followed the u. S. Conventions on aljazeera. Hello and welcome again to everyone im come out santa maria youre on rewind were revisiting some of the best and most influential programs from more than a decade of documentaries in the aljazeera archive as well as bringing you news of how the story has moved on since. I can 979. 00 the world woke up to news that the russian army had swept across the border into afghanistan in an attempt to prop up the communist government there it followed 18 months of civil unrest after the Peoples Democratic party seized power in 1978 however the p. D. P. Is radical plans including land reforms and equality of the sexes as well as modernizing traditional islamic civil and marriage laws that all spawned the guerrilla Resistance Movement known as the mujahedeen what followed was a decade of bloody civil war with pakistan in the United States covertly supporting the islamic rebels against
Welcome to the theater located at the National Archives building washington dc and i like to give a special shout out to our friends on cspan who are joining us today. Before we hear from philip about his book black site i will tell you about two upcoming programs taking place in the theater we will hear about the forgotten founding father george mason the founding father who gave us the bill of rights. On tuesday september 10th Sidney Blumenthal will tell about his recently released volume number three of his biography of Abraham Lincoln 1856 through 1863 to find more out about these programs please visit our website you will also find printed materials with Upcoming Events as well ass signup sheets to have the electronic version of the monthly calendar. Joining the cia in 1985 as a special agent after september 11 he was a cia member of a small diplomatic11 team for afghanistan then he became Deputy Director for orterrace center and stayed there through 2005 the first Deputy Director
Them away from the streets. Where the only thing they knew was to carry guns and fight now instead of guns they killing cricket bats. This team has now carried their bats around the world. In cricket the name afghanistan is associated only with success and progress. But no one could have guessed just how good this side was about. Afghanistans cricket team was formally recognized by the sports world governing body in 2001 at the time they had no world ranking and no home ground like did have was a supremely talented generation of players and so began one of the most unlikely journeys and sports in history. The european Channel Island of jersey was afghanistans next stop with the financial backing of the international and asian Cricket Councils the team were and sit into division 5 of the World Cricket League the lowest tier of the international game. Pushkar or kabul they certainly wasnt but a familiar scene was soon so unfold afghan cricketers celebrating a tournament win on foreign so
Aljazeera. And. Hello and welcome again to 31 santamaria here on rewind were revisiting some of the best and most influential programs from more than a decade of documentaries in the aljazeera archive as well as bringing you news of how the story has moved on since. Like a 979. 00 the world woke up to news that the russian army had swept across the border into afghanistan in an attempt to prop up the communist government there followed 18 months of civil unrest after the Peoples Democratic party seized power in 178. 00 however the p. D. P. Is radical plans including land reforms and equality of the sexes as well as modernizing traditional islamic civil and marriage laws that all spawned a guerrilla Resistance Movement known as the mujahideen what followed was a decade of bloody civil war with pakistan in the United States covertly supporting the islam and rebels against russian backed government forces. It was the beginning of 4 decades of violence and unrest for that troubled country