"Afghanistan is Where God Comes to Cry"
17 October 2007
Holly Barnes Higgins, '', The American Interest, Vol. 3, No. 2 (November-December 2007)
Holly Barnes Higgins recounts her experience as an aid worker in Afghanistan's Helmand province.
"The Afghans said to us on many occasions that if we wanted to stop poppy cultivation, we should simply agree to artificially hike prices for what local farmers already know how to grow?cotton,...
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Germany Extends Afghanistan Mission for 1 Year
17 October 2007
'German Parliament Extends Afghan Mission,' Deutsche Welle, 12 October 2007.
"Despite public opposition, over 75 percent of Germany's lower house voted on Friday, Oct. 12, to extend the country's mission in Afghanistan by one year. In a sweeping majority, 454 parliamentarians in Germany's Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, voted to continue Germany's military action in Afghanistan. Seventy-nine voted "no" and 48 abstained....
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Canada Proposes Extension of Afghan Mission to 2011
17 October 2007
Alan Freeman, 'Tories Look to Extend Afghan Mission Until 2011', The Globe and Mail, 17 October 2007.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper "has proposed an extension of Canada's military mission in Afghanistan until 2011, with an emphasis on training Afghan security forces, but wouldn't say whether the mission would continue to include a combat component. 'Our government does not believe that Canada should simply abandon the people...
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