All but forgotten

[SHRED]

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All but forgotten, the place before the Bush Junta started the corporate oil war/business deal, known as Iraq.

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Taliban seize southern Afghan district

Fri Apr 6, 2:07 PM ET

Taliban rebels seized control of a district in the south of Afghanistan Friday, officials said, as more than 1,000 ISAF and Afghan soldiers attacked a Taliban stronghold.

The Taliban move came as a suicide bomber in a taxi killed six people near the national parliament in Kabul.

President Hamid Karzai meanwhile said he had met with members of the Taliban movement -- which is leading a deadly insurgency five years after being toppled by US-led forces -- to bring reconciliation to his country.

Karzai said Taliban representatives had been regularly meeting with government bodies, adding: "I've had some Taliban coming to speak to me as well, so this process has been there for a long time."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070406/ts_afp/afghanistanunrest


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[shain from kane]

1. In other news, the Mayor of Kabul toured the Farmers' Market today and claimed everything was cool.

[JeffR]

2. K & R

and thank you for reminding us that Iraq is not the only country our criminal misAdministration managed to kick the stuffings out of and turn upside down. I admit I seldom think about Afghanistan anymore, and shame on me for it.