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...more, with better than 1 in 3 voters saying they plan to watch all the debates and an additional 49% saying they will watch at least some, the matches may be the test of whether Bush and Kerry will overcome, or confirm, the doubts each has tried to sow about the other in the minds of voters. According to the poll, of the 19% of voters who claim they are undecided or could still change their minds, 69% say the debates may be what clinches it for them...
...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 in Afghanistan--which al-Qaeda and the Taliban could exploit to wrest back power. Miwa Kato, a Kabul-based officer for the U.N.'s Office on Drugs and Crime, puts it this way: "The opium problem has the capacity to undo everything that's being done here...
...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 on Drugs and Crime, puts it this...
...hatred they sow among the victims, nations and people will come back to haunt us." ABDULLAH AHMAD BADAWI, Prime Minister of Malaysia, warning of repercussions from abuse in U.S. military prisons...
...incidents on April 28 involving the attacks staged by militants on police and military posts in the south of Thailand have no connection whatsoever with "jihad" or any underlying religious conflict. The incidents that occurred are part of an effort by a few groups of individuals who wish to sow the seeds of religious mistrust and intolerance where none had existed. Their resort to the repeated use of violence is intended to undermine the fabric of social and religious harmony that has always existed in Thailand. The Thai government very much regrets the loss of lives, but the scale...