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Afghanistan: United Nations
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Due to the mountains, the national unity of Afghanistan has always been fragile. There are many hollow and roomy caves located within these mountains. The tribes living within these caves stay hidden from the world; they come into the light only in the presence of foreigners and outsiders, against whom they engage in bloody revolts and persistent resistance.
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Closer cooperation between coalition troopsand Afghan security forces is helping stem violence that’s been on the rise ineastern Afghanistan, Army Col. Jonathan Ives, commander of Task ForceCincinnatus, told Pentagon reporters on 2 October. But he ... attributed manyinroads being made to the Afghan people themselves. As they develop moreconfidence in their national security forces and in the coalition’s commitmentto their region, they’re becoming partners in stabilizing the region, he said.Ives cited Operation Naruz Hallah, a mission planned and led by the AfghanNational Army to focus on threats that had been escalating in the isolatedKapisa province. His own task force, with includes about 1,000 troops from theUnited States, New Zealand, South Korea and Turkey operating in RegionalCommand East under Combined Joint Task Force 82, had been working up a plan toaddress the threat when the Afghans approached them with their own plan inJuly.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A senior Pennsylvania Army National Guard officer has died at Brooke Army Medical Center, Texas, due to injuries received from an improvised explosive device attack in Khowst Province, Afghanistan. Lt. Col. Richard J. Berrettini, 52, Eldred, McKean County, died Jan. 11, nine days after the HMMWV he was a passenger in was attacked. He was serving a one-year tour and was scheduled to return home at the end of the month.
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By mid-2004 little of the aid that the United Nations had estimated the country would need had reached Afghanistan, while a new, Afghani-proposed development plan called for $28.5 billion over seven years. Although foreign nations pledged to provide substantial monies for three years, sufficient forces and funding for Afghan security were not included.
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The President and Pentagon should allow international peacekeepers to be deployed throughout Afghanistan to provide stability so that relief agencies can do their work. Several countries have offered to deploy peacekeepers but their efforts are being blocked by the United States. Click here to read a sample letter to elected officials (requires Microsoft Word).
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The United States and the United Nations ... gave different estimates for Afghanistan's opium production in 2003. The United Nations said it would rise 6 percent to 3,600 metric tons, while the White House said 2003 output would be 2,865 metric tons. The United States did not give a 2002 figure.
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