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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (204337)	9/26/2006 9:29:19 AM
From: Keith Feral	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

These people are in a religious culture that gives them no opportunity to have economic freedom. They are banned from even taking out business loans, since it is forbidden to pay riba (interest) on loans. They grow figs and almonds and use cooking oil to heat goat meat. That is the extend of non oil produced economic activity. They are repressed on every level - economic, political, religious, civil rights, education, etc... Look at what $300 billion would do for Afghanistan in one year. President Karzai said it would put them in heaven on earth. He is rapidly becoming one of the most prolific reformists in the ME. Look at his comments to shut down the radical madrasses in Pakistan.