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  • Karzai's second term a test for international community by Terrence Kelly, 2 Nov 2009 -- "Afghan President Hamid Karzai begins his second term with his country on the brink of chaos. To establish control, two major elements of reform are necessary. ..."
  • Legitimacy Questions in Afghanistan by Council on Foreign Relations, 2 Nov 2009 -- "Afghanistan's planned November 7 presidential runoff was supposed to help confer more legitimacy to a marred presidential election on August 20,and its assumed winner, incumbent Hamid Karzai. But with the withdrawal of chief opponent Abdullah Abdullah and Karzai now declared the winner, the Afghan government's credibility as a U.S. partner could be under a lengthening shadow. ..."
  • Civilian Airstrikes in Afghanistan - A Different View by Anonymous, 27 Oct 2009 -- "We hear a lot about the alleged effect of civilian casualties as a result of airstrikes on Pakistani and Afghani thinking, but are popular assumptions really accurate? Last March, for example, the Pakistani press reported a survey that painted a rather different picture of the impact of Predator strikes than what we hear in our press: http://www...."
  • Pakistan's New Generation of Terrorists by Council on Foreign Relations, 26 Oct 2009 -- "As an increasing number of suicide attacks rock Pakistan's major cities, concerns for the country's security are rising. In recent years, many new terrorist groups have emerged, several existing groups have reconstituted themselves, and a new crop of militants has emerged, more violent and less conducive to political solutions than their predecessors. ..."
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    • Are Pentagon Contracts Funding the Taliban? 6 Oct 2009 -- "A US military aid program that favors Afghan vendors is being used by the Taliban as an extortion racket to the tune of a projected $80 million in the last year. ..."
    • Is Thermonuclear India a Fizzle? 29 Sep 2009 -- "A top scientist's claim that India's 1998 nuclear test was a failure poses a big threat to Obama's nonproliferation plans. ..."
 
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