Ronald
Roskens had abruptly been fired as president of the University of
Nebraska, in a secret meeting of the state Board of Regents in July
1989...the rumored reason was, at least according to some reports, that
evidence of his involvement in various orgies had been reported (incl.
surveillance photos of nude young boys in Rosken's home). Gossip like
that could be easily ignored had it not been Omaha...
...Omaha had earlier been the epicenter of the infamous- though now largely forgotten- Franklin Credit Union scandal...
...within a year after Roskens being dismissed
from the University, President George H.W. Bush selected Roskens to head
the Agency of International Development...Under an AID grant to the University of Nebraska-Omaha and its Center, the agency spent $51 million on the university education program in Afghanistan from 1984 to 1994. One part of that grant
involved the publishing of textbooks in the dominant Afghan languages
of Dari and Pashtu...the textbooks were filled with violent images and
militant Islamic teachings, part of covert attempts to spur resistance.
... “The pictures [in] the texts are horrendous
to school students, but the texts are even much worse,” said Ahmad Fahim
Hakim, an Afghan educator who is a program coordinator for Cooperation
for Peace and Unity, a Pakistan-based nonprofit.
An aid worker in the region reviewed an unrevised 100-page book and counted 43 pages containing violent images or passages...
An aid worker in the region reviewed an unrevised 100-page book and counted 43 pages containing violent images or passages...
Elizabeth Neuffer in the Boston Globe, March 17,
2002, wrote in an article about the obstacles to education in
Afghanistan, a year after the US invasion:
The obstacles to accomplishing that goal are
enormous. What few schools impoverished Afghanistan once had – about
2,000 – are now all virtually destroyed, pummeled by gunfire or turned
into refugee camps. Teachers here have not been paid for months, even
years. Those schoolbooks that still exist are pro-Taliban screeds and
deemed unusable.
By not mentioning the source of the textbooks,
Neuffer gives the impression that the books were written by the Tablian-
or some other militant Islamic organization- and not the University of
Nebraska, under the supervision of the US government.
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