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...extensive experience working with the UN from within the US government, both as deputy to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke at the US mission to the UN, and as Director for peacekeeping and multilateral operations at the National Security Council,” Neffinger wrote...
...only way to cut off al-Qaeda's pipeline is to destroy the poppy farms. U.S. military commanders have been reluctant to commit the nearly 20,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan to opium eradication, fearing that doing so would divert attention from the hunt for terrorists. The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, has tapped top Drug Enforcement Administration official Harold Wankel to lead an intensified drive to nail kingpins, shut down heroin-production labs, eradicate poppy fields and persuade farmers to plant food crops. If the drug cartels aren't stopped, the U.S. fears, they could sow more chaos...
...finally starting to pay attention. Its ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, has tapped top Drug Enforcement Administration official Harold D. ("Doug") Wankel to lead an intensified drive to nail kingpins, shut down heroin-production labs, eradicate poppy fields and persuade farmers to plant food crops. If the drug cartels aren't stopped, the U.S. fears, they could sow more chaos in Afghanistan, which al-Qaeda and the Taliban could exploit to wrest back power. "We need to make a difference in the next couple of years," says Wankel. Miwa Kato, a Kabul-based officer for the U.N.'s Office...
...prime responsibility of the government of Sudan is not to brutalize its own people, not to bomb people, not to arm militias to attack people, not to support people who engage in the burning of villages and rape." JOHN C. DANFORTH, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, calling for sanctions against the Sudanese government over the conflict in Darfur...
...flee their homes. The Sudanese, who deny they are backing the militias, say they will do everything they can to comply. "Because should we fail to do so, we know our enemies would not hesitate to take other measures against our country," said Osman al Sayed, Sudan's ambassador to the African Union. But aid groups say that the watered-down resolution has let Khartoum off the hook. Relief workers in Darfur say 2.2 million people need food or medical treatment. Rains have turned overcrowded camps into muddy open sewers, increased the threat of disease, and complicated the distribution...