Collapse in Afghanistan / Elyas Nawandish

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4.9 • 937 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Elyas Nawandish is on to talk about his article at The Intercept, “I Watched the Afghan Government Collapse Under the Weight of Its Own Greed: Our leaders failed to give Afghan soldiers the food, tools, and respect they needed to defeat a brutal insurgency.” Elyas is an Afghanistan Observatory Scholar at New America. Since 2014, he has worked with the Kabul-based Etilaat Roz daily newspaper, where he is currently the online chief editor, supervising a team of 20 journalists. Previously, he served as news manager, investigative reporter, and text editor for Etilaat Roz. He has produced around 160 reports and editorials, including 12 major investigations on politics, security, human rights, rule of law, corruption, and abuse of state resources by former Afghan government officials.

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0:35.0	Richard what was the music you were playing before the show started.
0:40.0	That was really good.
0:42.0	Uh, it was a group called Mumbles.
0:44.0	Okay.
0:45.0	And yeah, this was just a little short instrumental track.
0:49.0	I like that band called Mumbles.
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