Insecurity Curbs Hopes For Regional Trade
14 May 2009
'Afghan Hopes To Provide "Land Bridge" Still Hampered', Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, 14 May 2009
EXCERPT: "President Hamid Karzai has been keen, since becoming head of Afghanistan's interim administration in late 2001, to tout his landlocked country's potential as a 'land bridge' for regional trade. The idea entails transforming the mountains of Hindu Kush from a conflict zone into a trade hub between...
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US Loses Support To Taliban Over Blunder
14 May 2009
'Learning A Hard History Lesson In "Talibanistan"', The Wall Street Journal, 14 May 2009
EXCERPT: "Deep beneath the desolate landscape here are miles of canals that have watered wheat fields and vineyards for untold generations. They're also at the center of a dispute that handed the Taliban a propaganda victory and angered the very people the U.S. military hopes to win over through its troop surge. Rushing to expand...
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Fears Keep Girls From School
14 May 2009
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EXCERPT: "Only a few dozen of about 570 female students attended class in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday after an apparent attack with poison gas sickened more than 80 girls this week. It was the third apparent poisoning at a girls school in about two weeks. No one has claimed responsibility for the poisonings, but Education Ministry officials...
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UK Troops Lacking Essential Supplies: Report
14 May 2009
'Half Of Supplies To Afghanistan Troops Fail To Arrive In Time', Times Online, 14 May 2009
EXCERPT: "The Ministry of Defence is failing to meet half of all demands to send essential equipment to British forces in Afghanistan on time, an official report said today. A combat vehicle designed to better-protect troops from bomb blasts has also proved unreliable, the National Audit Office (NAO) said. The audit report praised the MoD...
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