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What might have seemed a relatively straightforward military venture to overthrow a government and rid the country of al-Qa'ida and its protectors, the Taliban, has now taken on a quite different hue. Having forced regime change, Nato is now there as occupiers.

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'Time running out' in Afghanistan

Afghanistan is a failed state and time is running out before a majority of people in the country want to see Nato troops leave, Lord Ashdown has warned.

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From Information Clearing House

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Gates: NATO survival at stake in Afghanistan

MSNBC

02/10/08

Survival of the NATO alliance, a cornerstone of American security policy for decades, is at stake in the debate over how the United States and Europe should share the burden of fighting Islamic extremism in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday. ‘We must not — we cannot — become a two-tiered alliance of those willing to fight and those who are not,’ Gates told the Munich Conference on Security Policy, where Afghanistan was a central topic...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp