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...recognized with immense appreciation by the Afghans. But the Afghan people have given a lot, too, in this war against terrorism. On a daily basis we are losing our lives, police, army, engineers, teachers, even our children. This the Afghan people understand. But they do not understand why for six years the Afghans have been saying to their allies that the war against terrorism will not be won unless and until we go to the sanctuaries, to the training grounds, to the financiers, to the motivators of hatred that come across the border to kill...
...they don't stop, what is the next option? I tell them to leave this country? Pack up and leave Afghanistan? Take their money away, take their troops away? Then what? Will we be better off? I came to power when there was no government, no institutions, no laws. Six years on, it's not like that. The overall situation is: we act and defend and bring offenders to justice and put them in jail. Even government offenders...
...Last week I went to Jowzjan province where I met an 11-year-old girl who had been raped about six months ago. Her family had to pay bribes to pursue the case in the courts. Her sister told me that under the Taliban that man would have been executed. "We want the Taliban back," she said, "because they gave us justice." The Taliban did provide that sort of justice. They were much better in that way. Yes, that's true...
...counternarcotic forces]. My brother can also easily be accused [so as] to put pressure on me. Regardless of that, I took this seriously. I called the Americans, the British and the Europeans, and I repeatedly said, "Anything you have, let me know." And once, twice, three times, four, five, six times - nothing. Allegations have been there, but never have they come to me with proof. Privately they say, "President, we have nothing...
...acrylic-and-steel hourglass that it erected on Red Square itself. The show "reflects the confidence that the BMW Group has in this country's potential," gushed Christian Kremer, the company's managing director for Russia, noting that sales were up again by a third in the first six months of this year...