http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Bamiyan Sat, 18 May 2013 11:29:58 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Bamiyan Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:33:47 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b67_1367220484 plokiju In 2007, the Chinese state-owned China Metallurgical Group Corporation (M.C.C.) won the rights to mine copper at a site called Mes Aynak. Situated in volatile Logar Province, Mes Aynak is home to one of the world's largest untapped copper deposits - worth more than $100 billion. Yet, as this Op-Doc video shows, the site also houses the astonishing remains of an ancient Buddhist city, which archaeologists are now racing to save. An international team has only until June to finish the excavations, which began in 2009. So far they have uncovered golden Buddhist statues, dozens of buildings and fragile Buddhist manuscripts buried within temples. Yet perhaps 90 percent of the site remains underground and unseen. To finish the job could take decades. In all likelihood, the destruction of the Buddhist sites will begin later this year. The Afghan government is letting this happen - it's a tragedy that echoes the notorious destruction of the Buddhas at Bamiyan in 2001. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/24/opinion/a-chinese-threat-to-afghan-buddhas.html?_r=1&amp; http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b67_1367220484 plokiju A Chinese Threat to Afghan Buddhas Chinese, Threat, Afghan, Buddhas, copper, mining, afghanistan, historic, national, treasure Sat, 27 Apr 2013 06:50:33 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=754_1367059778 MagicSonny "I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people," said Edmund Burke of the rebellious Americans. The same holds true of Islam, the majority faith of 49 nations from Morocco to Indonesia, a religion that 1.6 billion people profess. Yet, some assertions appear true. Islam is growing in militancy and intolerance, evolving again into a fighting faith, and spreading not only through proselytizing, but violence. How to justify the charge of intolerance? The Taliban blew up the Bamiyan Buddhas. The Sufi shrines of Timbuktu were blown up by Ansar Dine. In Saudi Arabia, Iran and Afghanistan, Christian converts face the death sentence. In Nigeria, the Boko Haram attacks churches and kills Christians, as in Ethiopia and the Sudan, where the south seceded over the persecution. Egyptian Copts are under siege. Assyrian and Chaldean Christians in Iraq have seen churches pillaged, priests murdered. In Indonesia, churches are being shut on the demand of Islamists. Sharia law is being demanded by militants across the Middle East, as Christianity is exterminated in its cradle. Has Islam become again a fighting faith? Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia are the sites of Islamist uprisings using terror to rip these statelets from Russia. Muslim Uighurs are fighting to tear off a chunk of China and create an East Turkestan. Muslim Malays in south Thailand have fought a decade-long war of secession. Albania has acquired two sister Muslim states in Europe, Bosnia and Kosovo, both born in blood. "Islam has bloody borders," wrote the late Samuel Huntington. They are bloodier today. At the time of 9/11, al-Qaida seemed confined to Afghanistan. Al-Qaida may now be found in the Maghreb, Mali, Iraq and Yemen. Its Syrian auxiliary, the al-Nusra Front, is dominant in the anti-Assad rebellion. Since Y2K, Islamists have perpetrated massacres in Mumbai, Madrid, London, Moscow, Beslan and Boston. Osama bin Laden appears no longer as popular as he once was, yet tens of millions worldwide still admire him. Why? Islamism can also call upon true believers prepared to die for the cause. No other faith produces so many suicide bombers. Muslims counter-argue that America has killed many more noncombatants, in Iraq, and Afghanistan and Pakistan with drone strikes. What right, they ask, did we have to attack Iraq? Did we not ourselves stir up the nest of hornets that stung us in Boston? Yet there is another reality. While the clash of cultures widens between the West and Islam, leaders in the Muslim world can be found working with the United States against their own extremists. Jihadists are by no means a majority in the Islamic world, where they are also feared and hated. And in the West, they are but a fraction of our Muslim communities. The crisis: Even a tiny minority of terrorists like the Tsarnaevs can so inflame tensions between the West and the Muslim world they can bring our two civilizations into conflict. Would we have fought those wars in Iraq and Afghanistan without the atrocity of 9/11? What are the goals of the jihadists? Expulsion of Christians and infidels from the Dar al-Islam, the house of Islam. Expulsion of the American Crusaders. Overthrow of Muslim rulers who collude with the Great Satan. Annihilation of Israel. Infiltration of the homelands of a decadent, dying West. Death to all who insult the Prophet. Ultimate goal: Bring the world to acknowledge and act on the truth that there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his Prophet. And while the Islamic world remains far inferior in technology and manufacturing and military power, Muslim peoples are far more numerous and devout. With a fourth of mankind, their birth rate is higher and their numbers soaring, along with their militancy at home and in the diaspora. In population and territory, the West is shrinking, while our Muslim minorities are growing and becoming more assertive in their demands. "No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come," said Victor Hugo. Many in the Muslim world believe that as the Christian West dominated for 500 years, their time has come. How do we deal with this irreconcilable conflict between a secular West and a resurgent Islam? First, as it is our presence in their world that enrages so many, we should end our interventions, shut down the empire and let Muslim rulers deal with Muslim radicals. Second, we need a moratorium on immigration from the Islamic world. Inevitably, some of the young we bring in, like the Tsarnaevs, will yield to radicalization and seek to strike a blow for Islam against us. What benefit do we derive as a people to justify the risks we take by opening up America to mass migration from a world aflame with hatred and hostility over race, ethnicity, culture, history and faith? Why are we bringing all of the world's quarrelsome minorities, and all the world's quarrels with them, into our home? What we saw in Boston was the dark side of diversity. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?" http://news.yahoo.com/dark-side-diversity-070000603.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=754_1367059778 MagicSonny Pat Buchanan : The Dark Side of Diversity buchanan, islam, diversity, immigration Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:43:59 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b6c_1218829439 danmanjones Tribute video for the Kiwis in the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Bamiyan Province, Afghanistan. Nice work! Date: 2007 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b6c_1218829439 danmanjones New Zealand Security Forces in <span class="highlight">Bamiyan</span> Afghanistan Kiwi,New Zealand,PRT,ISAF Sun, 05 Aug 2012 02:36:36 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8c0_1344147708 WellingtonianNZ Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman says it is a sad day for the defence force after the death of two New Zealand soldiers and wounding of six others in Afghanistan. At approximately 7pm last night, the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) came to the assistance of local security forces who were attacked by insurgents near a village south of Do Abe, in the north east of Bamiyan Province. Two soldiers from the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) were killed and another six were wounded, three with serious injuries. Coleman said it was a tragic day for the NZDF, who are a very close-knit family. "This is going to be felt very heavily across the NZDF," he said at a press conference at the Defence Force base at Whenuapai. "This is a time when people across the the NZDF will pull together." Prime Minister John Key expressed sadness over the deaths, saying the soldiers had paid the "highest price". "My thoughts are with the family and friends of the two brave soldiers killed and also with the families and friends of those injured." New Zealand Governor General Sir Gerry Mateparae also offered his condolences, saying serving in war-torn countries carried significant risk. The identities of the two killed will not be released for 24 hours to give families time and space to grieve. Their bodies will return to New Zealand later this week. Attacked by insurgents The attack occurred yesterday morning in Do Abe, around 7pm New Zealand time, after an Afghan police unit moved to arrest an insurgent in the area, Chief of Defence Force Lieutenant General Rhys Jones said."They were ambushed by insurgents and had two killed and seven injured."They requested the help of our PRT to help stabilise the situation and help evacuate out the dead and wounded people," Jones said.The PRT sent patrols into the region, who assisted in putting suppressive fire down on where the insurgents remained in buildings."Our patrols then moved to secure the area around it, and that's when we came under fire by a separate group of insurgents."Jones said the fatalities occurred within two to three minutes of fire. Number of NZ soldiers killed The announcement today brings the total number of New Zealand soldier fatalities in Afghanistan to seven.The first, Lieutenant Tim O'Donnell, was killed in August 2010 after an ambush in Bamiyan.Three soldiers died last year, including Private Kirifi Mila of the PRT and SAS soldiers Corporal Doug Grant and Lance Corporal Leon Smith.And PRT Corporal Doug Hughes died in an incident in April this year.Key said each and every one of these soldiers left behind a family."I'd like to reassure their families that they will always be remembered by all New Zealanders for the sacrifice they have made to restore stability to the region."The deaths also reinforced the danger faced daily by New Zealand forces working "tirelessly" to restore stability to the province, Key said.The PRT has been in the Bamiyan Province for nine years. Earlier this year it was announced the team would be withdrawn from Afghanistan before the end of 2013. Source: http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/tragic-day-nz-defence-force-minister-5007111 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8c0_1344147708 WellingtonianNZ 'Tragic day' for NZ Defence Force new zealand, nz, soldier, provincial, reconstruction, team, prt, afganistan, firefight, killed, wounded, bamiyan, nzdf, afgan, police, unit, august, 2012 Sat, 14 Jul 2012 23:40:05 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=65a_1342323377 qwerty4242 In unlicensed coal mines in Afghanistan's remote Bamiyan province, children as young as 10 are working with no safety protection. Fledgling Afghan filmmaker Fardeen Barkazai risked a trip through Taliban territory to tell their story. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=65a_1342323377 qwerty4242 Afghanistan's child coal miners -- afgan,afghan,afganistan,Bamiyan,province,afghanistan,children,innocent,mining,coal,miners,teenage,dirty,laws,china,economy,unsafe,labor,labour,workers,underground Thu, 11 Aug 2011 05:59:39 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=192_1313056627 smeblee Over Bamiyan in March 2011 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=192_1313056627 smeblee The Mountains of Afghanistan afghanistan,bamiyan,mountains Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:39:51 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bc0_1298615708 bravo61 Making a Difference: The paediatric clinic that was built a year ago has treated over 1,000 children so far and the number keeps growing. Meanwhile, the Shah Foladi Comprehensive Health Clinic is ready to be handed over to the locals. The new clinic is a fitting end to the SAF's operations in Bamiyan and a symbol of the difference they've made to the lives of the Afghan people. SAF video http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bc0_1298615708 bravo61 Ops Diaries-Singapore Armed Forces in Afghanistan-6 Afghanistan, Singapore, New Zealand, Singapore Armed Forces, New Zealand Defence Force, ISAF, Bamiyan Province, PRT Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:06:31 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=20b_1298093599 bravo61 The Peace We Keep: With its lush greenery and crystal-like streams, you'd probably think you're in Switzerland in summer. The SAF engineering team in Bamiyan faces a different kind of challenge here, one of culture and language as they put the finishing touches to a health clinic they've helped build for the people of Foladi Valley. SAF video http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=20b_1298093599 bravo61 Ops Diaries-Singapore Armed Forces in Afghanistan-5 Afghanistan, Singapore, New Zealand, Singapore Armed Forces, Bamiyan Province, ISAF, PRT Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:35:17 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5a2_1260613779 -suicidebomber- Side note: This is where New Zealand's Provincial Reconstruction Team is located - Bamiyan Province, West of Kabul. So far we've put about US$150 million into their economy in training police, building infrastructure & trying to create a future tourist spot, like it was before. So far NZ troops have had just a few melees but no-one's died yet.... The people that time forgot. Hundreds of Afghans still live in the caves of Bamiyan in conditions that are centuries old. With no running water, electricity or modern comforts of any kind, theyre facing yet another severe winter. Living in the shadow of the big Buddhas blown up by the Taliban, residents say they're fed up with their struggle, but they are too poor to change their life. A voiced AFPTV report. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5a2_1260613779 -suicidebomber- Afghanistan's cave dwellers face another bitter winter Afghanistan,Bamiyan,cave dwellers Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:29:49 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d99_1351023888 CptSpaulding Paragliding from the top of the Buddha niches in Bamyan, Afghanistan http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d99_1351023888 CptSpaulding Fly <span class="highlight">Bamiyan</span> afghanistan Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:56:06 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bc3_1298616853 bravo61 B-roll and greetings from Afghanistan, messages for Christchurch. Scenes include New Zealand Flag in breeze, New Zealand memorial plaque in Bamian PRT and Various GVS around Bamian PRT. Produced by Ruth Owen. NATO/ISAF video http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bc3_1298616853 bravo61 Messages for Christchurch from Kiwis in Afghanistan Afghanistan, New Zealand, Christchurch Earthquake, Kiwis, PRT, ISAF, Bamiyan Province Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:11:52 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fa2_1360528104 Alexander_Khorasan Illegal excavation of Afghanistan's mines is happening countrywide backed by local companies and officials in positions of power, the Office of the Administrative Affairs said Saturday. Head of the Office's Monitoring and Evaluation Authority Sayed Ihsanuddin Taheri said that in northern Balkh province alone there have been 12 companies with no existing contracts excavating mines in the province since last summer. "Alborz Company, Karim Sharifi Company, Aria Pamir North Company are at least three firms which are doing work arbitrarily. These three are some of the 12 companies that have been excavating mines and taking gems from Balkh province since the first of Saratan this year (late June 2012)," Taheri said. A list of other provinces with sites being illegally mined includes Kabul, Kapisa, Parwan, Panjshir, Kunduz, Badakhshan, Ghazni, Bamiyan, Kandahar, Helmand, and Herat. At least 12 places in Kabul believed to have some 700 gem stone mines, three gem stone mines in Panjshir including an emerald mine, and four mines in Badakhshsan are all known locations where illegal excavations are continuing, Taheri said. The official said it was known that the illegal activities were supported by powerful local figures who help smuggle the gems and other mined materials out of the country. Decree 45, issued by President Hamid Karzai, says that companies and individuals who are found to have carried out illegal excavations will be provided to the media once it is prepared by Ministry of Mines; however, no such list has been compiled yet. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fa2_1360528104 Alexander_Khorasan Local Powerbrokers Behind Illegal Mining Illegal, excavation, Afghanistan, mines