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  • Obama eyes compromise strategy on Afghanistan 13 Nov 2009 02:43 GMT
    ... is leaning towards a compromise strategy on troops to ... to show a strong US commitment to Afghanistan while also conveying to corruption-tainted government that ... is widely accused of involvement in the opium trade. The president has also faced widespread criticism ...

  • Vattenfall in political storm 13 Nov 2009 01:59 GMT
    ... The Medical Products Agency and the National Board of Health ... government’s office have been arrested for possessing illegal drugs. More people will be heard by the ... (Aftonbladet) The police are now investigating a narcotics ring with connections to the Swedish Cabinet ...

  • Marines, Afghan soldiers hunt Taliban 12 Nov 2009 21:55 GMT
    ... 11/12/2009 By Lance Cpl. John M. McCall, Regimental Combat Team 7 Afghan National Army soldiers and Marines with Weapons ... to begin searching compounds for caches of illegal drugs, weapons and improvised, explosive device-making material. “We ...

  • Afghanistan exports first apples to India 12 Nov 2009 11:58 GMT
    ... encourage farmers to grow crops other than opium. With international support, Afghanistan has tried to ... from taxing production and smuggling opium and heroin between 2005 and 2009. Rahimi said fruit ... fruit exports were a way of encouraging poppy growers to switch to other crops. "This ...

  • Factcheck: Why are we in Afghanistan 12 Nov 2009 21:15 GMT
    ... setting out why British troops are in Afghanistan. But how do the reasons he gives ... wide-ranging issue, including Taliban involvement in Britain's heroin supply, and the large number of refugees ... reduce poverty; and a sustainable decrease in poppy cultivation and drug trafficking. The extent to which ...

  • Leading figures from the North East give views on continued Afghanistan war 12 Nov 2009 09:57 GMT
    ... the North East give views on continued Afghanistan war As the body count continues to ... serious instability. It has various resources like heroin which can be used to finance all ... craft killing her and three others on Poppy Day, 2006. Elsie said: "They should be brought ...

  • Human rights leader discusses Afghanistan, Sudan 12 Nov 2009 14:11 GMT
    ... Jobs, education, public safety: no, it wasn't a symposium ... by Dr. Sima Samar, chair of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, UN Human Rights ... were fighting to gain control and the opium trade was encouraged.” The opium trade actually began ...

  • Pub chain sorry for Northern Whig poppy snub 12 Nov 2009 02:13 GMT
    ... One of Northern Ireland's biggest pub chains has apologised ... a man was asked to remove a poppy in order to get into one of its ... even be ex-servicemen who have been in Afghanistan. “We know the poppy is not a ...

  • Applause for Mr Clapp's record poppy sale effort 12 Nov 2009 20:56 GMT
    ... Applause for Mr Clapp’s record poppy sale effort IT’S been a giant effort that ... Regiment and returned from a tour of Afghanistan at the beginning of the month, has ...

  • Nato chief Rasmussen: 'more troops for Afghanistan' 12 Nov 2009 18:59 GMT
    ... Nato chief Rasmussen: 'more troops for Afghanistan' As a US envoy warns against sending ... according to UN statistics the cultivation of opium has decreased by more than 20 per cent ...

  • Nato chief Rasmussen: 'more troops for Afghanistan 12 Nov 2009 19:01 GMT
    ... Nato chief Rasmussen: 'more troops for Afghanistan' As a US envoy warns against sending ... according to UN statistics the cultivation of opium has decreased by more than 20 per cent ...

  • Two Arrested Over Poppy Tin Theft In Pram 12 Nov 2009 19:57 GMT
    ... Two Arrested Over Poppy Tin Theft In Pram Police hunting a couple ... have been bereaved in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars," she said. "I went to the ...

  • Gates hints at compromise strategy on Afghanistan 12 Nov 2009 21:44 GMT
    ... suggested Thursday, after the US envoy in Kabul ... a need to show a commitment to Afghanistan with conveying to President Hamid Karzai's corruption-tainted ... is widely accused of involvement in the opium trade. The president has also faced widespread criticism ...

  • LYON: Afghan war, media take toll on Obama 12 Nov 2009 14:40 GMT
    ... All that we have to do is to send ... America’s misconceived “war on terror,” events in Afghanistan daily dramatize the awful situation confronting President ... re-elected, Afghan president, as both a major opium smuggler and the recipient of eight years’ worth ...

  • SA man in new jail in Afghanistan 12 Nov 2009 23:00 GMT
    ... SA man in new jail in Afghanistan Nov 12, 2009 9:44 PM | By ... security guard has been moved to a "counter-narcotics justice centre". Philip Young from Cape Town ...


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