ARTIST SHAMSIA HASSANI; AFGHANISTAN

Mural in Los Angeles by Shamsia Hassani.

Shamsia holds a BA degree in Painting and a master's degree in Visual Arts from Kabul University in Afghanistan.

By Shamsia

• John Pilger: 
  

  'Saira Noorani, a female surgeon recalled: "it all started to go wrong when the mujahedin started winning … these were the people the West supported."
  
  'On 3 July 1979, unknown to the American people and Congress, Carter authorised a $500 million “covert action” programme to overthrow Afghanistan’s first secular, progressive government. This was code-named by the CIA Operation Cyclone.
  
  One of the recruits was a Saudi engineer called Osama bin Laden.
  
  The aim was to spread Islamic fundamentalism in Central Asia.

• THE USA & AFGHANISTAN & CHINA
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Afghanistan in the 1970s, before the USA put the 'mad Muslims' into power.

Americans killing kids in the Philippines.