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The resurgent Taliban are making gains, especially in the south, where British troops defeat them in battle-but then the poorly paid and trained Afghan army troops assigned to hold the territory fail to do so. [...] a few judges have been killed.\n That was a grave mistake, says Associated Press correspondent Kathy Gannon, who thinks Mullah Khaksar might have revealed some of Osama bin Laden's plans. In an interview in Maclean's magazine, Rory Stewart, author of The Places in Between, about his colorful mid-winter trek across Afghanistan, cautions that "the international community is simultaneously trying to fight the Taliban, create a liberal democracy, exterminate narcotics, build a strong central government and defend human rights."
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America Needs a Development Plan for Afghanistan Today
ON A RECENT TRIP to Afghanistan, many Afghans asked me: "What's the American plan for us?" I said I didn't know and I didn't know anyone who knows. There's remarkably little discussion of Afghanistan, and that includes among American presidential candidates, who rarely mention the subject. It is almost as if Afghanistan were an afterthought, an annoying obstacle on the way to remaking the Middle East.
And Osama bin Laden? That man, apparently untroubled by the U.S., is now well entrenched and, from all reports, growi...See the full content of this document
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