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Afghanistan

The other war Seymour Hersh, New Yorker (April 12, 2004)
Afghan women continue to fend for themselves Sonali Kolhatkar, Foreign Policy in Focus (March 2004)
For anyone who was under the impression that the bombings of wedding processions and other Afghan civilian gatherings were a thing of the past, this January, a U.S. helicopter murdered 11 civilians in their home, among them 3 women and 4 children. The district chief, Abdul Rahman told Associated Press, "They were simple villagers, they were not Taliban. I don't know why the U.S. bombed this home." Even the U.S.-backed interim President Hamid Karzai agreed with this assessment. The official U.S. response to this was an insistence that in fact "five armed anti-coalition militia members" had been killed. Impunity allows such a response to go unchallenged.
Afghanistan: Rule of the rapists Mariam Rawi (pseudonym), RAWA activist, Guardian (Feb 12, 2004)
When the US began bombing Afghanistan on October 7 2001, the oppression of Afghan women was used as a justification for overthrowing the Taliban regime. Five weeks later America's first lady, Laura Bush, stated triumphantly: "Because of our recent military gains in much of Afghanistan, women are no longer imprisoned in their homes. The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women."
Bumpy road from bullets to ballots Dominic Nutt (Christian Aid UK), Guardian (Jan 6, 2004)
Stronger and more deadly, the terror of the Taliban is back Jason Burke, Observer (Nov 16, 2003)
Operation Forgotten: Afghans build a future with hope, not help from the west James Astill, Guardian (Nov 14, 2003)
So, was it worth it? A correspondence between Tariq Ali and Mike O'Brien on the situation in Afghanistan (Oct 11, 2003)
Afghanistan: In Search of Security Mark Sedra, Foreign Policy in Focus (Oct 2003)
What good friends left behind John Pilger, Guardian UK (Sept 20, 2003)
Remember Afganistan? Guardian UK (Aug 19, 2003)
Now We Pay the Warlords to Tyrannise the Afghan People Isabel Hilton, Guardian UK (July 31, 2003)
U.S.-backed warlords and political strongmen are engendering a climate of fear in Afghanistan Human Rights Watch (July 29, 2003)
Operation Endless Deployment - U.S. Military Expansion in Asia and the Middle East William D. Hartung, Frida Berrigan & Michelle Ciarrocca, The Nation (Oct 21, 2002)
Afghanistan Imperiled Ahmed Rashid, The Nation (Sept 26, 2002)

Casualties

Forgotten Victims: The full human cost of US air strikes will never be known, but many more died than those killed directly by bombs. Jonathan Steele, Guardian UK (May 20, 2002)
Above the Law and Below Morality: Data on 11 Weeks of U.S. Cluster-Bombing of Afghanistan Marc Herold, Cursor.org (Feb 1, 2002)