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January 20, 2014
Nasir Shansab’s Speech at the National Press Club
WASHINGTON, D.C. – January 8, 2014 – Considering the upcoming U.S. Armed Forces withdrawal from Afghanistan, I, Nasir Shansab, spoke at the National Press Club about the hazards of U.S./Afghan relations and signed my book SILENT TREES. I am a dual citizen of the United States and Afghanistan. As noted on the Biography page of [...]
January 18, 2014
Nasir Shansab on Voice of America
Aunshuman Apte, a correspondent and producer from Voice of America, went to my January 8 speech at the National Press Club and interviewed me. He also invited me to appear on VoA the next day. Below is my interview on the VoA Dari channel in the Dari language, a variety of Persian spoken in Afghanistan. [...]
January 17, 2014
Cincinnati’s 55KRC Talk Station Chooses ‘SILENT TREES’ as Book for the Week
January 17, 2014 – Thanks to Cincinnati’s 55KRC Talk Station, who has a special feature called “Brian’s Book Club.” Brian chose SILENT TREES as a Book for the Week of January 13 and a screenshot follows. SILENT TREES is sold in hardback and Kindle editions at Amazon. The hardback edition is also sold at Barnes [...]
January 13, 2014
Nasir Shansab on the Jim Bohannon Show
January 13, 2014: I was honored to be a guest on the Jim Bohannon Show, which airs weeknights at 10 PM to 1 AM ET on over 300 stations nationwide. Jim asked great questions and one of the best was what I want Americans to learn from my book Silent Trees. We discussed [...]
January 9, 2014
Experts: Booming Opium Trade May Turn Afghanistan into Criminal State
Edwin Mora of Breitbart News asked me about the opium trade in Afghanistan: The thriving Afghan opium trade—which has grown dramatically during the ongoing U.S.-led occupation, reaching record highs—may turn Afghanistan into a criminal state if left unabated, experts warn. Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 8, Nasir Shansab, an [...]
January 8, 2014
Expert: Afghanistan Will Resume Being Terrorist Haven When US Troops Depart
Barbara Hollingsworth interviewed me for CNSNews.com and the article is headlined “Expert: Afghanistan Will Resume Being Terrorist Haven When US Troops Depart.” Among other things, she asked about my meeting with Osama bin Laden. Afghanistan will once again become a safe haven for international terrorists after U.S. troops depart later this year, leaving “nothing of lasting [...]
Expert: Obama’s Afghanistan Strategy Recipe for Failure
Today Edwin Mora of Breibart News attended my media conference at the National Press Club, asked questions and wrote the story “Expert: Obama’s Afghanistan Strategy Recipe for Failure.” The Obama administration’s Afghanistan strategy will fail because the Afghan forces will not be able to maintain security and deal with a resurgence of the Taliban in [...]
Nasir Shansab on the Vinnie Penn Project
Two days before my speech at the National Press Club, Vinnie Penn of WELI 960 AM Radio in New Haven, Connecticut interviewed me about al Qaeda gaining ground in Iraq since U.S. Armed Forces left, plus the scenario in Afghanistan as our military prepares to leave. Please click here to listen.
January 6, 2014
Nasir Shansab on The Wilkow Majority
January 6, 2014 – I was on the Wilkow Majority, Andrew Wilkow’s show on the Patriot Channel 797 of SiriusXM Radio and Andrew wrote the following intro. Nasir Shansab At the beginning of 1975, Nasir Shansab, Afghanistan’s leading industrialist was worried. As the Afghanistan distributor for Toyota, Mercedes, Michelin, Bosch and others, a major contactor [...]
Nasir Shansab on the BLOOMDADDY Show
Monday, January 06, 2014 Syndicated from WWVA NewsRadio 1170 AM in Wheeling, West Virginia Daily Blog Does America want 10 more years of war in Afghanistan? That’s a question that’s being tossed around D.C. right now. By the end of 2014…alot of people (most of the American public) want all of our forces out of [...]
