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...ground can look so easy that other sectors of the economy are starved of investment. Apart from Australia and Norway, it is hard to think of resource-rich nations that have used their natural endowments to build balanced economies. By contrast, some of the world's richest nations--Denmark, Japan, Switzerland--got that way without any significant stock of natural resources...
...leader allied to the U.S., wants control of Gardez, the provincial capital, and has threatened to attack rival allied Afghans who hold the city. The international peacekeeping force in Afghanistan also suffered its first fatalities last week. Three Danes and two Germans died while defusing missiles. The leaders of Denmark and Germany expressed sorrow at the accident, but said that the losses would not affect their countries' participation in the Afghan mission...
...European governments are already anxious about Bush's intentions - a fear of unforeseen consequences that has only been sharpened by the death last week of two German and three Danish peacekeepers who were defusing a missile in Afghanistan, and the participation of some 200 special forces from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany and Norway, and flyers from France, as American ground troops led an assault on al-Qaeda and Taliban forces near Gardez...
...which puts us in last place among the world’s 22 richest nations. Portugal, Greece and New Zealand all put in double the amount we do in relation to their GDPs, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In first place is Denmark, which is ten times as generous as we are and gave away 1.06 percent...
...when it traced a group of some 500 suspected bin Laden loyalists to a cave network in the Shahi Kot mountain range in Paktia province, the U.S. last weekend sent 1,000 of its own men - together with 200 special forces troops from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Denmark and Norway - to take a leading role in the ground offensive. Although the soldiers were accompanied by a similar number of anti-Taliban Afghan fighters, Tora Bora showed that local militiamen don't necessarily share the incentive of the Western troops to take the risks necessary to finish the job. At Shahi...