United States Optimistic About Afghanistan Reinforcements: Rice
05 March 2008
'', Yahoo! News, 5 March 2008
EXCERPT: "US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed optimism Wednesday that NATO can find enough troops for Afghanistan to meet Canadian demands for a better response to the Taliban-led insurgency. "People have obviously been working very hard on this issue," Rice told reporters travelling with her to Brussels, where she will...
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NATO's Role in Afghanistan Strains Alliance
05 March 2008
'NATO's Role in Afghanistan Strains Alliance', National Public Radio, 5 March 2008
EXCERPT: " NATO was set up in 1949 to, as some put it, keep the Russians out, the Americans in and the Germans down. But with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the question became: What exactly is NATO for?. Its intervention in Kosovo marked one turning point, and the Sept. 11 attacks an even bigger one, as NATO troops were sent thousands of miles away...
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United States May Be Allowed To Use Uzbek Military Base: NATO
05 March 2008
'United States May Be Allowed To Use Uzbek Military Base: NATO', Reuters AlertNet, 5 March 2008
EXCERPT: "Uzbekistan may let the United States use a military airbase for operations in Afghanistan after evicting U.S. troops in 2005, a NATO official and diplomats said on Wednesday. Any move by Washington to tiptoe back into Uzbekistan is certain to enrage Russia, which has accused NATO of triggering a new arms race by beefing up its military...
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New International Narcotics Control Board Report Urges Stronger Action To Stop Drug Trade
05 March 2008
'', Integrated Regional Information Networks, 5 March 2008
EXCERPT: " The government of Afghanistan and neighbouring states must join forces to stop the smuggling of precursor chemicals, particularly acetic anhydride, to Afghanistan where they are used in the illicit manufacture of heroin and morphine, the International Narcotics Control Broad (INCB)...
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