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...people of Afghanistan must not participate in the election ... If they do, they will come under Taliban attack." Mullah Dadullah, a Taliban leader thought to be hiding in Afghanistan, warning Afghans against participating in the presidential elections expected in June...
...friends. Among the things we expect from friends is an effort to prevent us from making mistakes. Going to war over (nonexistent) weapons of mass destruction (WMD) was a mistake, and the French were right to oppose the U.S. invasion of Iraq. But France agreed that eliminating the Taliban in Afghanistan was a good idea and still contributes there. America's French ally has been polite enough not to scream "I told you so!" about WMD. Bob Nelson Calais, France...
...Krauthammer stated that "with a few trusted friends, America must carry on alone." What bad advice! It's the last thing the U.S. should do. Instead, America needs to learn from its terrible mistakes such as backing Saddam Hussein or the Afghan Taliban in the first place. Sean Nowak Berlin...
Afghan Harvest In the war against terrorism in Afghanistan, battles are raging on multiple fronts. Insurgents killed two Afghans at a government military post near the former Taliban stronghold of Khost in the south-east late last week, hours after local militia showered 20 rockets on the city's airport, triggering fire from U.S. forces based nearby. Away from the front lines, efforts to halt Afghanistan's opium trade are failing. After taking office in 2001, Afghan President Hamid Karzai outlawed...
...cultivation of poppies, from which heroin is derived. But he admitted last week that "poppy production and the production of heroin are the major problem of Afghanistan." And terrorist coffers are rich with the profits: the U.N. says groups like the Taliban pocketed hundreds of millions of dollars last year from a record 3,600 tons of opium, with farmers - taking home up to ten times a policeman's pay - expecting further growth this year. While the U.N. advocates deploying coalition troops to smash drug labs thriving in the north, Karzai is pleading for $300 million in international...