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		<title>Disillusioned Afghans Seen Turning on Karzai</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/disillusioned-afghans-seen-turning-on-karzai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Karzai has been under pressure from the US and other allies to do something about the growing problem of corruption in his government, forcing him to shuffle his cabinet earlier this month. The mounting allegations have even extended to his family, with his brother reportedly linked to the nation’s burgeoning heroin trade.  &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>Sources: US to waive visa rules for 7 countries</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congress last year enacted a law to expand the program while requiring that the government implement a system under which visitors from non-visa countries would have to register online with U.S. authorities before their departures and provide some personal information. Lieberman contends that program will not be in place when the new countries join. &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>How Deeply is the U.S. involved in the Afghan Drug Trade?</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/how-deeply-is-the-us-involved-in-the-afghan-drug-trade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The answer is simple and dismaying. America&#8217;s local allies in Afghanistan, the politicians and warlords who overthrew Taliban in 2001, are up to their turbans in the heroin trade. Drug money is the blood that courses through Afghanistan&#8217;s veins and keeps the economy limping along. The U.S.-installed Karzai regime in Kabul propped up by US [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8780&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Collateral damage&#8217; or targeted killing, the effect is much the same</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But now I ask a question. When US troops massacre Iraqi civilians in Haditha because their buddy has been murdered, what is the difference between their revenge and that of Saddam? When a Taliban attack on Nato forces in Afghanistan provokes a US air strike on a village and leaves women and children torn to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8530&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US, Pakistan torn apart over terror</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/us-pakistan-torn-apart-over-terror/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commencing with the enormous backlash in Pakistan in the aftermath of the raid  																	by US special forces on Angoori Ada in the tribal area of South Waziristan on  																	September 3; the disclosure by the New York Times that President George W Bush  																	issued secret orders allowing US special forces to undertake operations [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8302&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>French troops: We won&#8217;t go to Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/french-troops-we-wont-go-to-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to French media, troops in the 27th battalion stationed in a southern France military base said on Friday that they were unwilling to go to Afghanistan as part of France&#8217;s mission in the central Asian country&#8230;
Despite the fact that 50 percent of the French people oppose the deployment of thousands of troops to Afghanistan, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8175&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Afghan President invites Taliban leader to join peace talks, ministry</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, Mullah Omar demanded forces of NATO and US to withdraw from Afghanistan or face defeat.
&#8220;If you withdraw from our country, we will facilitate the ways for your withdrawal, failing which, like the Russians, you will face defeat in all corners of the world,&#8221; he said in a statement. &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>Pakistan first</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 21:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is public that Bush signed a special order authorising attacks in  		sovereign Pakistan. It is a gross violation of international law, UN  		laws, EU laws and understandings between US, Pakistan, Afghanistan and  		NATO member states backed by EU. It is therefore time that Islamabad  		registers a case against Bush in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=7651&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NATO accused of sheltering Afghan heroin trade</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within the framework of the Russia-NATO Council Russia is financing and conducting special training for Afghan police squads dealing with drug trafficking. Unfortunately, for more than a year not a single Afghan policeman came to Russia for training which is no wonder considering the fact that all actions of Afghanistan’s security services should be sanctioned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=7289&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NATO bomb kills, wounds 12 civilians in E Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &#8220;A NATO bomb missed its target and hit a house Tuesday, killing two  civilians and wounding 10,&#8221; the newspaper said. 
 It quoted a NATO statement as saying &#8220;ISAF weapon malfunctioned which meant  to target a spot used by insurgents to fire rockets.&#8221; &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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