1 Billion Dollar Drugs Seized Over The Year
02 April 2009
'', AFP, 2 April 2009
EXCERPT: "Afghan authorities said Thursday they had seized more than one billion dollars' worth of drugs and chemicals in 12 months and prosecuted top officials for involvement in smuggling. While there was a fall in the number of arrests over the Afghan year ending March 21, which follows the solar calendar, the amount of drugs seized rose, counternarcotics...
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A Strategy For Stabilizing Afghanistan-Pakistan
02 April 2009
'', Asia Society Task Force, 1 April 2009
EXCERPT: "The governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan are at risk from a combination of violent insurgency, loss of public confidence, and economic crisis. These trends threaten not only the loss of control by the Afghan and Pakistani governments, but also the spread of terrorist safe havens and, in the most extreme situation,...
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NATO Snubbed Troops Request
02 April 2009
'NATO Snubbed Over Request For 4,000 Troops In Afghanistan', Times Online, 2 April 2009
EXCERPT: "Nato leaders meeting at the 60th anniversary summit of the alliance face humiliation unless they can persuade members to send 4,000 extra troops to southern Afghanistan for the four-month period of the elections due on August 20. An urgent military request for two more infantry battalions and the logistic support units to go with...
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Detention At Bagram Is Subject To US Courts
02 April 2009
'', The New York Times, 2 April 2009
EXCERPT: "A federal judge on Thursday ruled that some prisoners held by the American military in Afghanistan have a constitutional right to challenge their imprisonment in United States civilian courts, delivering a rebuke to a claim of unfettered executive power advanced by both the Bush and Obama administrations. In 53-page ruling, Judge John...
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