Militants Deepen Their Foothold In Afghanistan's North
22 October 2009
'Militants Deepen Their Foothold In Afghanistan's North', Los Angeles Times, 22 October 2009
EXCERPT: "The hulks of burned-out fuel tankers on the doorstep of this provincial capital stand as scorched testament to the growing reach of the Taliban and other insurgents across Afghanistan's once-stable north. As the Obama administration moves into a crucial phase of deliberations over the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan,...
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NATO Looks To Change Course In Afghanistan
22 October 2009
'NATO Looks To Change Course In Afghanistan', Deutsche Welle, 22 October 2009
EXCERPT: "Afghanistan tops the agenda of NATO foreign ministers as they meet Thursday and Friday in the Slovakian capital, Bratislava. The United States is pushing its NATO allies to change tactics in Afghanistan, a move supported by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. US General Stanley McChrystal, the supreme commander of the NATO-lead...
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Election Officials Deliver Afghan Runoff Ballots
22 October 2009
'', The Associated Press, 22 October 2009
EXCERPT: "Election authorities in Afghanistan began delivering ballots with U.N. assistance across Afghanistan on Thursday, as hurried preparations for the Nov. 7 runoff in the insurgency-plagued nation's presidential election got under way. International election monitors called on authorities to avert the widespread fraud that marred...
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The Transnational Threat Of Afghan Opium
22 October 2009
'', United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), 22 October 2009
EXCERPT: "Afghanistan has a monopoly on global opium poppy cultivation (92 per cent), the raw material for the world's deadliest drug - heroin. The size and impact of the opium economy in Afghanistan were documented in the Afghanistan Opium Survey 2009 published in September. Less...
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