Afghanistan Today

You will become the “expert” on one of the following topics and teach it to the class.

The links below can get you started, but you can certainly do additional research!

Hamid Karzai

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/hamid_karzai/index.html

Taliban

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1549285.stm

and

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/t/taliban/index.html

Al Qaeda

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/a/al_qaeda/index.html?scp=1&sq=al%20qaida&st=cse

Osama BinLaden

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/

Current US Role in Afghanistan

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/world/asia/08prexy.html?_r=1&scp=8&sq=us%20role%20in%20afghanistan&st=cse