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To: LindyBill who wrote (101572)	2/22/2005 10:52:48 AM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) of 793964

Will anyone report that the war is over when the Taliban come out of the hills and join the free Afghan people? Doubtful. The American media have all fled the success of Afghanistan and only one or two reporters remain to document Karzai's bold and effective initiative to entice lower-level Taliban to come in from the cold. Here's one AP writer who's still reporting doom and gloom in Afghanistan... hosted.ap.org UN: Afghanistan Could Become Terror Haven By STEPHEN GRAHAM Associated Press Writer (There's this) ...Afghanistan's economy is booming, growing at least 25 percent annually since then and expected to expand by at least 10 percent a year in the next decade. Some 4 million children have enrolled in school - more than ever before - and more than 3 million people forced from their homes have returned, most from Pakistan and Iran... (Followed by this) ..."Our team found the overwhelming majority of people hold a sense of pessimism and fear that reconstruction is bypassing them," said Daud Saba, one of the report's authors. The report was also critical of the U.S.-led military engagement in Afghanistan, saying it helped produce a climate of "fear, intimidation, terror and lawlessness" and neglected the longer-term threat to security posed by inequality and injustice. It also described reconstruction projects sponsored by the U.S. military as "inadequate and dangerous," echoing concern from some relief groups that they have blurred the lines between soldiers and civilians, and made aid workers into militant targets...

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