Karzai Seeks Ban on Private Security Firms
09 August 2010
Karzai Slams "Foreign Advisers", The Wall Street Journal, 8 August 2010
EXCERPT: "Afghan President Hamid Karzai lashed out at foreign interference and called for a ban on the private security companies that protect many Western installations here, in a speech that ratchets up recent tensions with the U.S. over two American-backed anticorruption agencies. 'We have the ability to rule and govern our country and we have our sovereignty. We...
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Iran?Plans?Afghanistan Conference
09 August 2010
, Financial Times, 9 August 2010
EXCERPT: "Iran is working with Afghanistan's neighbours on plans to prevent extremist forces from destabilising central and south Asia when Nato forces pull out of the war-torn state. Mohammad Ali Fatollahi, Iran's deputy foreign minister, said his country was planning to host an international conference on Afghanistan in Tehran as a next step to last month's Kabul conference,...
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