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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....

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To: Sully- who started this subject12/14/2003 2:27:32 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
From: Ghostrider

Running from Afghanistan too it appears...

The Big boys from the U.N. That's a real joke. Is this the same U.N. that ran out of the country after one bombing?

UN agencies threaten to quit war-torn Afghanistan

guardian.co.uk

The UN yesterday warned that its agencies will pull out of Afghanistan if American and other Western troops cannot stem a tide of violence that has recently seen 15 aid workers murdered by resurgent Taliban fighters, and most foreign aid workers withdrawn to Kabul.

US military officials in Afghanistan admitted the Taliban had adopted the same devastating roadside bombing technique employed by guerrillas in Iraq, from which the UN has already mostly withdrawn.

'Countries that are committed to supporting Afghanistan cannot kid themselves and go on expecting us to work in unacceptable security conditions,' said the UN's senior representative in Kabul, Lakhdar Brahimi.

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