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To: paret who wrote (33177)6/6/2005 12:32:48 AM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (5) | Respond to of 93284
 
A roundup of the past month's good news from Afghanistan.

BY ARTHUR CHRENKOFF
Monday, June 6, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT

Over the last few weeks, Afghanistan has been in the news again--unfortunately, for all the wrong reasons. The media pack has made a brief reappearance in Afghanistan to report on carefully staged "spontaneous" riots, which briefly erupted around the country, ostensibly in protest over a report in Newsweek (later retracted) about desecration of Koran by the American military personnel at Guantanamo Bay.

Sadly, in the rush of commentary about Afghanistan's slide into anarchy and America's deteriorating position in Kabul, most of the international media again missed or downplayed many other stories, some of them arguably far more consequential than an antigovernment rampage whipped up by opponents of President Hamid Karzai. Take this story:

opinionjournal.com

Warning - there is much good news. It is a long read.