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America, the new Great Game in Central Asia and the politics of oil |
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By By Kaleem Omar
The News International (Pakistan)
November 10, 2007
The United States is the worlds biggest consumer and importer of oil. But
the Chinese economic juggernaut is fast catching up with the US as an oil
importer and is projected to have more cars than the US by the year 2020. The
competition between the two countries for new sources of oil is going to be
intense. With crude oil prices closing in on an all-time high of $ 100 a barrel
this week and expected to breach that barrier within the next few days, the US
s interest in getting a hammerlock on Central Asias vast oil and gas
reserves is likely to become greater than ever before. |
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More Than Half of Afghanistan "Under Taliban" |
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By Kim Sengupta
The Independent UK
Thursday 22 November 2007
More than half of Afghanistan is back under Taliban control and the
Nato force in the country needs to be doubled in size to cope with
the resurgent group, a report by the Senlis Council think-tank says.
A study by the group found that the Taliban, enriched by illicit
profits from the country's record poppy harvest, had formed de-facto
governments in swathes of the southern Pashtun belt. |
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The Biggest Lie Told To The American People: Ahmadinejad's Alleged Remarks On Israel |
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As the Bush Administration beats the drums for another war of choice with another country that had nothing to do with 9/11, they are using another series of fabricated facts to indoctrinate the American people into thinking that Iran poses a serious threat to our security. At the core of these fabrications is the claim that on October 25, 2005, during a speech at the Ministry of Interior conference hall, the then newly-elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad remarked that "Israel must be wiped off the map." As someone who was born in Tehran, lived there for seventeen years and is a native Farsi speaker, I have read the original transcripts of the speech in Farsi and want to inform you that Ahmadinejad never said "Israel must be wiped off the map," but rather, his statement was grossly mistranslated and taken out of context, perhaps to help make a case for military action against Iran. |
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Eradication or "Poppy formedicine" ? |
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Senlis Council says: Legalize Afghan opium production orface more support for Taliban
The Senlis Council is an international policy think tank with offices in Kabul,London, Paris, Brussels, Ottawa and Rio.
TheCouncil’s work encompasses foreign policy, security, development andcounter-narcotics policies and aims to provide innovative analysis andproposals within these areas. The extensive programme currently underway inAfghanistan focuses on global policy development in conjunction with fieldresearch to investigate the relationships between counter-narcotics, military,and development policies and their consequences on Afghanistan’s reconstructionefforts. SenlisAfghanistan has field offices in the Afghan cities of Lashkar Gah and Kandahar. |
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