Famous Quotes & Sayings

The attacker carried the bomb in a motorcycle and detonated when he drove to the parking area of a military training center. Nine including five Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were killed, and 28 others injured,

Lindsey Graham

The Afghan security forces will always have the help of the U.S. American military to ensure that Afghanistan never fails.

Richard Engel

Foreign aid projects have pumped billions of dollars into the Afghan economy.

O. Henry

For every American soldier we put into Afghanistan, we could train and equip 14 Afghan soldiers. Those Afghan soldiers are going to understand the local terrain. They're going to understand the local customs and culture, and they're going to be able to speak the language.

Tony Blair

Once again the Afghan people have shown how determined they are to build a better future for their country.

not only Afghan civilians and the Afghan people but the whole process that has started in Afghanistan, which is basically for peace and stability and prosperity.

Donald Rumsfeld

It's not an effort against the Afghan people, ... Indeed, we are providing humanitarian assistance.

The book came after the fall of the Taliban, it says something about Afghan family life. Those kind of stories - what happens behind the scenes on a TV screen - are important.

We should not read too much into this weekend's event. The Afghan public is starting to look for performance from the government and this is the more important transition we are in right now.

We have more Afghan police, more Afghan army, more American army, more international forces. I believe we will have a secure elections,

Senator Kerry

When Bush had an opportunity to capture or kill bin Laden, he took his focus off of him, outsourced the job to Afghan warlords and bin Laden escaped.

John R. Allen

We're pursuing a strategic partnership with Afghanistan on the case of the United States and Afghanistan where we're going to push toward a future. It is the future that the Afghans desire with the United States. It is a future that the Afghans desire with the international community and we desire that as well.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996 after a searing, four-year civil war, they immediately instituted laws which fit their utopic vision of the time of Islam's founding more than 1,300 years earlier. Afghan women's lives offered the most visible sign of the imagined past to which Afghanistan's present was to be returned.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Certainly Afghans in general and women in particular want a country in which security is a daily reality rather than a campaign slogan or the focus of drive-by speeches from diplomats dropping in for the day.

Bob Ainsworth

We are not in Afghanistan because girls were not allowed to go to school, but helping them do so will give the Afghan people hope for a better future.

I believe a high number of Afghans have turned out to vote.

Afghanistan is where much of the al Qaeda journey began. It is the main site where Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar and their cohort rose to prominence fighting the Soviets in the 1980s. Afghan territory holds special significance to the group, which is committed to retaking it and re-establishing it as the base of a global movement.

Afghan human rights campaigners worry that U.S. forces may be using secret detention sites like the one allegedly at Rish-Khor to carry out interrogations away from prying eyes. The U.S. military, however, denies even having knowledge of the facility.

Afghan authorities are investigating the matter. If these reports are true, we condemn the incident and urge that all of them be released.

Afghan and U.S. forces did not open fire based on these initial movements, choosing instead to develop the situation,

During search operations, coalition forces and Afghan forces found the body of David Addison.

Maz Jobrani

Definitely in the West, we're all cast as the same now. Whether you're Indian, Pakistani, Arab, Iranian, Afghan or whatever, you just get thrown into this category. And nine times out of 10, you're depicted as bad.

These soldiers were operating and fighting alongside Afghan National Security Forces,

These expectations of the people will have to be met. What the election does is give the Afghan people a new channel to voice their opinions and demands.

The step has been taken to enhance security measures on the border before the Afghan elections,

The start of the repatriation season is slow, as some 15 Afghan families comprising about 75 individuals have left Pakistan over the last two days, including five families that returned on Wednesday. But this is quite usual.

These courses are creating women role models that demonstrate what Afghan women can do if given the opportunity.

Michaelle Jean

This incident is a tragic reminder of the insecurity that continues to plague the Afghan population and of the enormous risks facing the dedicated and courageous Canadian civilian and military personnel working in that country.

They say it's one Afghan at a time.

William T. Vollmann

Americans worry that Afghanistan has become a petri dish in which the germs of Islamic fanaticism are replicating - soon Afghans will be hijacking American planes and bombing embassies everywhere. And their fears are not necessarily unfounded. The Taliban are unemployed war veterans, ready and even eager to return to the battlefield.

A new wave of millions of Afghans will overwhelm hospitality, (we must) insure that we have local and federal governments on board.

George W. Bush

Braving deadly attacks and threats of violence, Afghans voted in large numbers,

Stephen Kinzer

Because Iran understands Afghanistan far better than Americans do, making Iran a partner in a long-term effort to transform Afghan agriculture makes sense.