Karzai Accused Of Alliance With Warlords
16 June 2009
'Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai Accused Of Compiling Coalition of "Gangsters and Warlords"', The Telegraph, 16 June 2009
EXCERPT: "President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has been accused of completing a coalition of 'gangsters and warlords' after rehabilitating a notoriously brutal strongman in a suspected election deal. General Abdul Rashid Dostum, a powerful Uzbek militia leader, once boasted of pulverising...
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Afghan Strategy Was Flawed: NATO Chief
16 June 2009
'NATO Boss Says Afghan Strategy Was Flawed: Report', Reuters, 16 June 2009
EXCERPT: "Making individual NATO members responsible for specific provinces in Afghanistan has hindered international cooperation efforts, NATO chief Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said in a magazine interview. 'All countries like to think they are the champions of reconstruction,' NATO Secretary General De Hoop Scheffer said in an interview with Dutch magazine...
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Taliban Deny Hiding Among Civilians
16 June 2009
'Taliban Say They Do Not Hide Among Civilians', Reuters India, 16 June 2009
EXCERPT: "Afghanistan's Taliban denied on Tuesday that they hide among civilians while they fight foreign troops, and dismissed claims that the majority of their fighters were foreign. On Sunday a district Taliban commander from western Farah province said there was some truth in the allegation that Taliban fighters retreat to homes where their families...
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