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Dilip Hiro, TomDispatch: Washington denounces corruption in Afghanistan but conveniently avoids an explanation of how American nation-building failed there.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/15487-how-the-pentagon-corrupted-afghanistan

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Afghanistan: NATO airstrike kill 4 police, 2 civilians in Ghazni province

District governor Fazal Ahmad said, ''A number of the Afghan local police officers were patrolling when they were attacked by NATO aircrafts, killing four police officers along with two civilians.''

http://is.gd/NOFUoq



How many occupation force troops will the US keep in Afghanistan after 2014?

''I am not in any particular hurry'' to come up with a number for what the U.S. military calls an ''enduring presence'' in Afghanistan, Gen. Martin Dempsey said in an interview.

http://is.gd/TtFhfF



Afghanistan, Slush Funds and Sleaze

By Stephen M. Walt

''The biggest source of corruption in Afghanistan,'' one American official said, ''was the United States.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34780.htm


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Martin+Dempsey
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=nation-building
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