Georgia To Join NATO Forces In Afghanistan
24 June 2009
'Georgia To Send 500 Troops To Afghanistan In 2010', Reuters India, 23 June 2009
EXCERPT: "Georgia plans to send 500 peacekeeping troops to Afghanistan in 2010 in addition to 100 it is dispatching this year to serve alongside NATO-led forces, a senior defence ministry official said on Tuesday. The former Soviet republic is a staunch ally of the United States and aspires to join NATO. Russia fiercely opposes NATO membership for...
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The Afghan National Police Challenge
24 June 2009
'Ineffective, Unprofessional, And Corrupt: The Afghan National Police Challenge', Foreign Policy Research Institute, 24 June 2009
EXCERPT: "'Going forward, we will not blindly stay the course' were the stirring words President Obama used to unveil his new Afghanistan strategy on March 27. The sentiment should have been much welcomed, both in Afghanistan and elsewhere abroad. Eight years after the U.S. launched Operation...
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Drug Cultivation Plummets As Demand Falls: UNODC
24 June 2009
'Drug Cultivation Plummets In Afghanistan As Demand Falls', Times Online, 24 June 2009
EXCERPT: "The cultivation of illegal drugs has declined steeply in Afghanistan and Colombia, the world's largest producers of heroin and cocaine, a UN survey shows. The organisation's 2009 World Drug Report, released today, said that opium poppy cultivation fell by 19 per cent in Afghanistan last year and that coca leaf cultivation dropped by...
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Ex-Detainees Allege Abuse At Bagram
24 June 2009
'Ex-detainees Allege Bagram Abuse', BBC News, 24 June 2009
EXCERPT: "Allegations of abuse and neglect at a US detention facility in Afghanistan have been uncovered by the BBC. Former detainees have alleged they were beaten, deprived of sleep and threatened with dogs at the Bagram military base. The BBC interviewed 27 former inmates of Bagram around the country over a period of two months. The Pentagon has denied the charges and...
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