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Five Years On, the US-led International Community has Failed Afghanistan.

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From Information Clearing House

The longest-serving Western journalist in the region, Gannon overturns simplistic understanding of the country's politics in this eye-opening talk.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14841.htm

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In Afghanistan, filmmaker Jamie Doran has uncovered evidence of a massacre: Taliban prisoners of war suffocated in containers, shot in the desert under the watch of American troops.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3267.htm

To understand the failure -- and fraud -- of reconstruction in Afghanistan, you have to take a look at the peculiar system of U.S. aid for international development.

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From Information Clearing House

Das von der US-Regierung einst als Modell für ihre Befreiuungspolitik angepriesene Afghanistan versinkt weiter im Chaos, während eine Opium-Rekordernete eingefahren wurde; deutsche Soldaten sind für anstehende Kämpfe schlecht gerüstet.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23480/1.html

Opium production in Afghanistan has reached a new high of 6,100 tons this year, witnessing a rise of nearly 50 percent year-on-year, said a senior UN anti-drug official on Saturday, who asked the Afghan government to exercise iron control over the illegal business.

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From Information Clearing House

In an unusually candid assessment, the official conceded that the former Defence Secretary had "insufficiently communicated" the risks soldiers would face in the lawless Helmand Province.

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From Information Clearing House

Ann Jones writes: "Remember when peaceful, democratic, reconstructed Afghanistan was advertised as the exemplar for the extreme makeover of Iraq? In August 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was already proclaiming the new Afghanistan 'a breathtaking accomplishment' and 'a successful model of what could happen to Iraq.' As everybody now knows, the model isn't working in Iraq. So we shouldn't be surprised to learn that it's not working in Afghanistan either."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082806F.shtml