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WMO Area TTAAiiCCCC STATIONS or FIRUIR MONITOR FTAH10OAKBN OAKNY OAKBY OAKNN TTAAiiCCCC STATIONS or FIRUIR MONITOR FTAF33OEJDY OEJDY LFPWY LFPWY LFPWY LFPWY LFPWY LFPWLMMLY LFPWY LFPWY LFPWY LFPWY. MISHAPS 1 UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS AFGHANISTAN AVIATION MISHAPS This study was initiated at the request of the 3 rd Marine Air Wing for inclusion in their unit level training. Each Marine Corps av By Deborah Ellis. WHAT IS LIFE LIKE IN AFGHANISTAN?. What do you know about the country of Afghanistan?  Do you know where it is?  Do you know what languages they speak in Afghanistan. ?. 1. What is the capital of Afghanistan?. RUDRENDRA TANDON. JOINT . SECRETARY for PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN & IRAN . in the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. September 3, 2015. Time has come to focus RECCA Cooperation to enhance Afghanistan’s connectivity.. The Kite Runner. by Khaled Hosseini. Culture Clash chart. :. Fill out why you think the practices listed on the left might be strange to another culture. Khaled Hosseini. . “Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a diplomat in the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother taught Farsi and history at a high school in Kabul. In 1976, the Foreign Ministry relocated the Hosseini family to Paris. They were ready to return to Kabul in 1980, but by then their homeland had witnessed a bloody communist coup and the invasion of the Soviet Army. The Hosseinis sought and were granted political asylum in the United States, and in September 1980 moved to San Jose, California. Hosseini graduated from high school in 1984 and enrolled at Santa Clara University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in biology in 1988. The following year he entered the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, where he earned a medical degree in 1993. He completed his residency at Cedars-Sinai medical center in Los Angeles and was a practicing internist between 1996 and 2004.. Background info…. Afghan Communist Party founded in 1965.. Communist Party took control in a Soviet backed military coup in 1978.. Party never had much support, especially in the rural areas.. In a short time, Afghan Rebels had control of 22 of 28 Afghan provinces.. Triangle Group 2. The older system is the religious system. This system is taught by mullahs. Mullahs conduct schools in the village mosques, teach the religious precepts of the Koran, reading, writing, and arithmetic. And there is also a different system.. The Kite Runner. by Khaled Hosseini. Culture Clash chart. :. Fill out why you think the practices listed on the left might be strange to another culture. Khaled Hosseini. . “Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965. His father was a diplomat in the Afghan Foreign Ministry and his mother taught Farsi and history at a high school in Kabul. In 1976, the Foreign Ministry relocated the Hosseini family to Paris. They were ready to return to Kabul in 1980, but by then their homeland had witnessed a bloody communist coup and the invasion of the Soviet Army. The Hosseinis sought and were granted political asylum in the United States, and in September 1980 moved to San Jose, California. Hosseini graduated from high school in 1984 and enrolled at Santa Clara University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in biology in 1988. The following year he entered the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, where he earned a medical degree in 1993. He completed his residency at Cedars-Sinai medical center in Los Angeles and was a practicing internist between 1996 and 2004.. Afghanistan. Images. http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2010/2/7/1265558344660/A-Reaper-drone-in-souther-001.. jpg. . http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/images/afghanistan-. Afghanistan: History. The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were traced to Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network based in Afghanistan.. On your Left Side:. What do your remember of Sept 11, 2001?. Counterinsurgency Operations in Kunar and Nuristan. Situation. September 11. th. terrorist attack. OEF launched . October 7, 2001 as a . response. Find Osama . Bin Laden and all high-ranking Al Qaeda . Communists. . in Afghanistan. 1978 – Afghan . govt. overthrown by leftist military led by . Taraki. Power shared by two Marxist groups: People’s Party and Banner Party. Afghan . govt. now had close ties to Soviet Union but little popular support. From . http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5380.htm . ~Afghanistan’s ethnically mixed population reflects its location astride historic trade and invasion routes leading through Central Asia. ~Pashtuns make up the largest ethnic group at 42%. History. Between the late 1800s and early 1900s Great Britain fought 3 wars with Afghanistan with the goal of consolidating it’s Indian empire and to prevent Russia from moving South into their territory (2). Mostly rugged mountains; plains in the north and southwest. Extreme temperatures (120. ° F in the summer /-15° F in the winter.). Prone to natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods & droughts.