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16 ‘Interview: Colin Powell’, pbs Frontline, 7 June 2002.
17 For the text of the Bonn Agreement, see ‘Agreement on Provisional
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18 Chris Johnson and Jolyon Leslie, Afghanistan: The Mirage of Peace (London
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19 See Kara Jensen, ‘Obstacles to Accessing the State Justice System in Rural
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20 For the text of the 2004 Constitution, see http://www.afghan-web.com.
21 For Dostam’s role in the u.s. campaign of 2001 and the black propaganda
campaign, see Brian Glyn Williams, The Last Warlord: The Life and Legend
of Dostum (Chicago, il, 2013), pp. 225–73.
22 Peter W. Galbraith, ‘un isn’t addressing Fraud in Afghan Election’,
Washington Post, 4 October 2009, http://www.washingtonpost.com.
23 Kai Eide, Power Struggle over Afghanistan (New York, 2012), p. 21.
24 Rumsfeld’s press conference can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com.
25 Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (sigar),
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26 unama, Afghanistan: Record Level of Civilian Casualties Sustained in the
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27 See Sarah Sewall, ‘Introduction to the University of Chicago Press Edition:
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28 Eide, Power Struggle over Afghanistan, p. 236.
29 sigar, 36th (July 2017) Quarterly Report to Congress, http://www.sigar.mil.
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31 International Crisis Group, Women and Conflict in Afghanistan (Brussels,
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32 usaid Office of the Inspector General, Audit of usaid/Afghanistan’s Skills
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33 Aureo de Toledo Gomes, ‘Statebuilding and the Politics of Budgeting in
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