Here is a post from the Friends of Uzbekistan listserv with resources on Afghanistan:

Here are some insightful articles' web addresses
relating to current events that I found very
informative, well-researched and by reliable authors.


Coming to Grips With Jihad: "The Roots of Muslim Rage"

http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/jihad.htm


The CIA poured billions into a jihad against
Soviet-occupied Afghanistan, creating a militant
Islamist brigade believed to have been involved in
bombings from Islamabad to New York.

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/96may/blowback.htm


The tribal lands of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border
reveal the future of conflict in the Subcontinent,
along with the dark side of globalization.

The Taliban embody a lethal combination: a primitive
tribal creed, a fierce religious ideology, and the
sheer incompetence, naiveté, and cruelty that are
begot by isolation from the outside world and growing
up amid war without parents.

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/09/kaplan.htm


Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central
Asia: Today, the U.S. has a "get Osama bin Laden policy" but
no effective Afghan policy.

http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba2000-08-09.htm


I hope you find these articles useful and informative.

Best regards,

Jamal Nasafi,
Peace Corps Fellow