Russia Gives US Afghan Drugs Data, Criticizes NATO
26 May 2010
Russia Gives US Afghan Drugs Data, Criticizes NATO, Reuters, 26 May 2010
EXCERPT: "Russia is the world's biggest per capita user of heroin -- all of it flowing from Afghanistan -- and President Dmitry Medvedev has called drug abuse among the country's youth a threat to national security. 'I handed him (Kerlikowske) over a list of nine ... people living in Afghanistan or elsewhere in Central Asia and involved in drug trafficking by supplying...
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Red Cross Gives First Aid Lessons to Taliban
26 May 2010
Red Cross Gives First Aid Lessons to Taliban, The Guardian, 26 May 2010
EXCERPT: "The Red Cross in Afghanistan has been teaching the Taliban basic first aid and giving insurgents medical equipment so that fighters wounded during battles with Nato and Afghan government forces can be treated in the field, it was revealed today. More than 70 members of the 'armed opposition' received training in April, the Red Cross said ? a move likely to...
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New Helicopters Delivered to UK Troops
26 May 2010
, The Press Association, 25 May 2010
EXCERPT: "Beefed-up helicopters have taken to the skies in Afghanistan as part of efforts to give British troops more firepower on the frontline. Military chiefs welcomed the arrival of the Lynx Mk9As, which boast more powerful engines and the ability to operate all year round in the extreme weather over Helmand Province. The Lynx Mk9A is fitted with a more advanced...
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Afghan Governor Strains to Exert Influence
26 May 2010
, Financial Times, 24 May 2010
EXCERPT: "Swooping over poppy fields north of Kandahar in a Nato military helicopter, Tooryalai Wesa, the provincial governor, braced himself for the latest stop on a stormy meet-the-people tour. One of a generation of Afghan technocrats who spent careers abroad, Mr Wesa has been cast in a pivotal role in the Obama administration's plan to turn the tide of the war by...
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