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Wikipedia: Afghanistan timeline February 2004
Afghanistan timeline February 2004
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Timeline of Afghan history

February 18, 2004

February 17, 2004

February 16, 2004

February 15, 2004

February 14, 2004

February 13, 2004

February 12, 2004

February 11, 2004

  • In Khost, Major Mohammed Isa Khan, the deputy intelligence director of Khost province, Afghanistan, was assassinated in his car by gunman Hafez Elal. Elal tried to escape but was chased down by bodyguards. To avoid capture, he detonated explosives strapped to his body. Taliban spokesman Mohammed Saiful Adel claimed responsibility.
  • East of Kabul, Afghanistan, United Kingdom British troops found a bomb made with a modified anti-tank mine.

February 10, 2004

  • In Afghanistan, the Kabul Primary Court sentenced to death two former Taliban officials, Zia Ahmad and Abdul Nab, for the murder of aid-worker Bettina Goislard November 16, 2003. The trial took three hours and the judgment took twenty minutes. No witnesses to the crime were present at the trial. The men planned to appeal the decision.
  • A remote-controlled bomb exploded on a road near Asadabad, Afghanistan, as the vehicle of Kunar province governor Sayed Fazel Akbar was passing. The vehicle sustained minor damage, but no one was injured.

February 9, 2004

February 8, 2004

  • Over 200 Afghan delegates gathered in Kabul for the International Conference on Counter-Narcotics in Afghanistan to discuss law enforcement, alternative livelihoods for poppy farmers and demand reduction. Keynote speakers included executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Antonio Maria Costa, interim president Hamid Karzai and Great Britain's foreign office minister Bill Rammell.

February 7, 2004

February 6, 2004

  • The Indian company Mahindra Defence Systems announced that it would provided 80 SUVs and 40 jeeps to the Afghan National Army over the next six months.

February 5, 2004

February 4, 2004

  • Interim Afghan president Hamid Karzai fired Mohammad Aref Sarwari, the head of national security.
  • At an economic conference in New Delhi, India, Afghan deputy Agriculture Minister Mohammad Sharif met with Israeli deputy minister of Industry and Trade Mikhael Ratzon, requested assistance in technological innovations for agriculture and invite a team of Israeli experts to visit Afghanistan.

February 3, 2004

  • Interim Afghan president Hamid Karzai appointed Mohammad Yusuf as governor of Farah province, and Azizullah Afzali as governor of Baghdis province. Karzai also named new police chiefs in five northern and central provinces. Gul Nabi Ahmadzai was appointed chief of training for the Afghan National Army.
  • Two rockets were fired on Kabul, Afghanistan. The first rocket struck a cemetery surrounded by houses and the second landed on a steep hillside nearby.
  • Former Afghan king Mohammad Zaher Shah was flown from Kabul to New Delhi, India for medical treatment. He was diagnosed with a minor blockage of his intestines and in stable condition.
  • At a border crossing, renegade warlord Bacha Khan Zadran and his brother Amanullah Khan Zadran were handed over from Pakistani to Afghan officials.

February 2, 2004

February 1, 2004


  

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