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Afghan opium cultivation hits a record
Opium cultivation in Afghanistan has hit record levels — up by more than 40 percent from 2005 — despite hundreds of millions in counternarcotics money, Western officials told The Associated Press. http://news.yahoo. com/s/ap/20060816/ap_on_re _as/afghan_opium_boom Fr om... ...
An International Force Can Never Impose Peace
Today is the official date for the handover of responsibilities from the US coalition to NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, where Taliban incursion and coalition failure to keep aid promises complicate... ...
UK will expand Afghanistan occupation
International Herald Tribune [France] 07/11/06 Britai n will send 900 more soldiers to Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan, where its forces are facing intense resistance from resurgent Taliban loyalists,... ...
Blair: no limit on Afghan war spending
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has announced there is no military spending cap for troops in Afghanistan battling the Taliban and opium production. http://www.wa shtimes.com/upi/20060705-1 11604-2429r.htm From... ...
US-Led Afghan Mission Is Failing
Drug policy analysts say "militaristic" attempts to eradicate poppy crop is driving farmers to Taliban. http://www.truth out.org/docs_2006/063006M. shtml ...
Karzai: War Not Getting at Terrorism Cause
Afghan President Hamid Karzai says the war on terrorism fails to address its root causes, and that the major military offensive against the Taliban will not fix Afghanistan's larger crises - a lack of... ...
Beaten, robbed and exiled: life on the frontline of someone else's war
They grabbed Jamal Ludin as he left for morning prayers. The 32-year-old grape farmer said he had been lined up beside a ditch with 50 other men and thrashed with wooden poles and an electric cable. "They... ...