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• Narco Politics

  Published: August 30, 2007, 6:18 am

  Tags: Opium, Kabul, Stephen Harper, Marx, Heroin, Kandahar, Cia, Iran, Dutch East India Company, Afghanistan, Karzai

  The British alternative is what? More civilian deaths from air strikes?British diplomat opposes legalized Afghan poppy cropBritain's top diplomat in Canada has dismissed a poll, commissioned by the international think-tank that is championing the legalization of Afghanistan's contentious opium poppy crop, which shows that Canadians overwhelmingly

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• Opiate Of The Masses

  Published: August 29, 2007, 9:07 am

  Tags: Opium, Kabul, Stephen Harper, Heroin, Kandahar, Cia, Iran, Afghanistan, Karzai

  NATO, peacekeeping, Karzai, heroin, opium, Iran, Soldiers, Death, Injury, Afghanistan, Government, Politics,

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• Meredith Vieira Sees U.S. Defeat in Afghanistan

  Published: September 24, 2007, 12:39 pm

  Tags: Afghanistan, Anti Military Bias, Foreign Policy, Hamid Karzai, Meredith Vieira, Nbc, Today

  So I'm asking you sir-" Karzai: "We won." Vieira: "-what's gone wrong? You've won?" Karzai: "Yes, of course we won." Vieira: "What have you won?" Karzai: "The war against terrorism. The liberation of Afghanistan. These guys, the al Qaeda, Osama and their associates were running Afghanistan. Today

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• So --------------

  Published: September 30, 2007, 12:35 am

  Tags: Afghanistan, Taliban, Karzai, Soldiers Safety, Talk, Peter Mackay

  The Afghan President wants to talk to the taliban---hmmmm----this is the taliban who kill hostages, torture prisoners without mercy, burn down schools, repress women and young girls, set road bombs to kill the afghan people. One would have to assume that the Afghan President has some idea of what he is doing in taking this first step, but I am

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• Taliban Karzai

  Published: September 30, 2007, 5:35 am

  Tags: Jack Layton, Taliban, Ndp, Afghanistan, Taliban Jack, Karzai

  along.Afghan President Hamid Karzai has offered to meet personally with Taliban leader Mullah Omar and another top insurgent for peace talks.Something Karzai would have told Parliament if his speech had not been ghost written for him by the Department of Defense. They took particular pains to single out the NDP for criticism in support of their

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• Meanwhile in Talibanistan

  Published: October 1, 2007, 8:03 am

  Tags: Afghanistan, Bushist, Taliban, Karzai, Cnn, Mullah Omar

  are going so well that:Karzai said Saturday he would be willing to meet personally with Taliban leader Mullah Omar and give militants a position in government in exchange for peace.Of course, the Bushists are certain we've forgotten who Mullah Omar is.Meanwhile, the body counts are flying. Is he dead? Yes. Is he one of ours? No. Then

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• Afghan Government Executes 15 Prisoners

  Published: October 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Afghan, Government, Executes, Prisoners, Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Kabul, Tom Koenigs, The Taliban, United Nations, United States, Clementina Cantoni, Humayun Hamidzada, Jalalabad, London, Reza Khan, Amnesty International, Nato

  KABUL, Oct. 8 -- Afghanistan executed 15 prisoners by gunfire, including a man convicted of killing three Western journalists and an Afghan photographer, the chief of prisons said Monday. It was the first time the country had carried out the death penalty in more than three years.

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• State Department Struggles To Oversee Private Army

  Published: October 21, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: State, Department, Struggles, Oversee, Private, Army, Iraq, U S Department Of State, United States, Blackwater Usa, Baghdad, The Pentagon, Zalmay Khalilzad, Andrew J Moonen, Donald H Rumsfeld, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Dyncorp International Llc, Condoleezza Rice, Willia

  Last Christmas Day in Baghdad, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad received a furious phone call from Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi. An American -- drunk, armed, wandering through the Green Zone after a party -- had shot and killed one of his personal bodyguards the night before, Mahdi said. He...

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• State Department Struggles To Oversee Private Army

  Published: October 21, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: State, Department, Struggles, Oversee, Private, Army, Iraq, U S Department Of State, United States, Blackwater Usa, Baghdad, The Pentagon, Zalmay Khalilzad, Andrew J Moonen, Donald H Rumsfeld, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Dyncorp International Llc, Condoleezza Rice, Willia

  Last Christmas Day in Baghdad, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad received a furious phone call from Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi. An American -- drunk, armed, wandering through the Green Zone after a party -- had shot and killed one of his personal bodyguards the night before, Mahdi said. He...

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• State Department Struggles To Oversee Private Army

  Published: October 21, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: State, Department, Struggles, Oversee, Private, Army, Iraq, U S Department Of State, United States, Blackwater Usa, Baghdad, The Pentagon, Zalmay Khalilzad, Andrew J Moonen, Donald H Rumsfeld, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Dyncorp International Llc, Condoleezza Rice, Willia

  Last Christmas Day in Baghdad, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad received a furious phone call from Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi. An American -- drunk, armed, wandering through the Green Zone after a party -- had shot and killed one of his personal bodyguards the night before, Mahdi said. He...

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• State Department Struggles To Oversee Private Army

  Published: October 21, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: State, Department, Struggles, Oversee, Private, Army, Iraq, U S Department Of State, United States, Blackwater Usa, Baghdad, The Pentagon, Zalmay Khalilzad, Andrew J Moonen, Donald H Rumsfeld, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Dyncorp International Llc, Condoleezza Rice, Willia

  Last Christmas Day in Baghdad, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad received a furious phone call from Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi. An American -- drunk, armed, wandering through the Green Zone after a party -- had shot and killed one of his personal bodyguards the night before, Mahdi said. He...

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• WORLD IN BRIEF

  Published: November 2, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: World, Brief, Darfur, Bosnia And Herzegovina, Miroslav Lajcak, Chad, United States, Caribbean, Europe, Hamid Karzai, Hiroshima, Nikola Spiric, Afghanistan, African Union, Bahamas, Cuba, Dominican Republic, European Union, Hurricane Noel, Japan, Nato, Serbia, Sudan, Supreme C

  Bosnian Prime Minister Nikola Spiric, an ethnic Serb, resigned Thursday, saying he could not do his job properly because of meddling by the country's powerful international administrator.

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• WORLD IN BRIEF

  Published: November 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: World, Brief, Aung San Suu Kyi, Ichiro Ozawa, Yoweri Museveni, Russia, U S Democratic Party, United States, Frank Bainimarama, Hamid Karzai, Horn Of Africa, Lydia Robertson, Mikhail Saakashvili, Moscow, Pope Benedict Xvi, Silvio Berlusconi, South Pacific, Vladimir Puti

  Russian nationalists chanting slogans against immigrants and Jews marched through a deserted area of Moscow on Sunday in a carefully controlled display that managed to avoid the violence and arrests of last year's National Unity Day observance.

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• Musharraf Ties Pose Dilemma For Bush

  Published: November 18, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Musharraf, Ties, Pose, Dilemma, For, Bush, George W Bush, Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan, United States, Richard Armitage, Al Qaeda, The Taliban, Hamid Karzai, Michael Green, The White House, Wendy J Chamberlin, Afghanistan, Punjab, A Q Kahn, Abdul Khan, Asia, Boston, Kabul, Stephen

  Even before he walked through the door at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York for his first face-to-face meeting with President Bush in 2001, Pervez Musharraf was something of a hero within the administration for his decisive stand against the Taliban and al-Qaeda after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist ...

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• Musharraf Ties Pose Dilemma For Bush

  Published: November 18, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Musharraf, Ties, Pose, Dilemma, For, Bush, George W Bush, Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan, United States, Richard Armitage, Al Qaeda, The Taliban, Hamid Karzai, Michael J Green, The White House, Wendy Chamberlin, Afghanistan, Punjab, A Q Kahn, Abdul Khan, Asia, Boston, Kabul, Stephen

  Even before he walked through the door at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York for his first face-to-face meeting with President Bush in 2001, Pervez Musharraf was something of a hero within the administration for his decisive stand against the Taliban and al-Qaeda after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist...

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