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By John F. Burns The New York Times KABUL, Afghanistan - American military successes in Iraq have prompted growing numbers of well-trained "foreign fighters" to join the insurgency in Afghanistan instead, the Afghan defense minister said on Tuesday. The minister, Gen. AbdulRahim Wardak, said at a news conference that the increased flow of insurgents from outside Afghanistan had contributed...
NY Times: American military successes in Iraq have prompted growing numbers of well-trained “foreign fighters” to join the insurgency in Afghanistan instead, the Afghan defense minister said on Tuesday. The minister, Gen. AbdulRahim Wardak, said at a news conference that the increased flow of insurgents from outside Afghanistan had contributed to the heightened intensity of the fighting...
Afghanistan Defense Minister Gen. AbdulRahim Wardak says U.S. success in Iraq is prompting more foreign militants to fight in his country instead. Wardak, at a news conference Tuesday, said that heightened fighting in his country, the worst since the U.S.-led coalition toppled its Taliban government in 2001, was in part caused by foreign Islamic militants heading for Afghanistan instead...
American military successes in Iraq have prompted growing numbers of well-trained "foreign fighters" to join the insurgency in Afghanistan instead, the Afghan defense minister said on Tuesday. The minister, Gen. AbdulRahim Wardak, said at a news conference that the increased flow of insurgents from outside Afghanistan had contributed to the heightened intensity of the fighting here this...
Listen to the entire program Afghanistan’s Defense Minister has proclaimed 2008 the worst year since the fall of the Taliban in terms of violence and terrorist activity. Minister AbdulRahim Wardak attributed his country’s state of affairs to a flow of Al Qaeda militants from Iraq to Afghanistan. But US and NATO [...]
Afghanistan's Defense Minister General AbdulRahim Wardak said Tuesday that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) had agreed to help the war-torn nation eradicate poppy. "Defense Ministers of the NATO-member states agreed in their last meeting held in Budapest to assist Afghanistan government in destroying poppy fields and heroin labs," Wardak told newsmen at a press conference...
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- U.S. military success in Iraq means a tougher fight for U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan, the Afghan defense minister said.Militants regularly traverse the porous border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. "A lot of terrorists, (who) were busy in other places, have all been diverted to Afghanistan," Gen. AbdulRahim Wardak, Afghanistan's defense minister,...
KABUL, Afghanistan — American military successes in Iraq have prompted growing numbers of well-trained "foreign fighters" to join the insurgency in Afghanistan instead, the Afghan defense minister said Tuesday. The minister, Gen. AbdulRahim Wardak, said the flow of insurgents had contributed to the heightened intensity of recent fighting, which he described as the "worst" since U.S.-led...
As Iraq cools, fighters join Afghan militants U.S. military successes in Iraq have prompted growing numbers of well-trained "foreign fighters" to join the insurgency in Afghanistan instead, the Afghan defense minister said Tuesday.The minister, General AbdulRahim Wardak, said that the increased flow of insurgents from outside Afghanistan had contributed to the rising intensity of the...
"The success of coalition forces in Iraq and also some other issues in some of the neighbouring countries have made it possible that there is a major increase in the foreign fighters," Gen. AbdulRahim Wardak told a news conference in Kabul.
... bombs in the south killed 16 Afghan civilians, officials said.The Afghan defense minister, Gen. AbdulRahim Wardak, said terrorists who would have once fought in Iraq have been "diverted" to Afghanistan."The success of coalition forces in Iraq and also some other issues in some of the neighboring countries have made it possible that there is a major increase in the foreign fighters,"...
... nine Afghans, including two children, a provincial police chief said.The defense minister, Gen. AbdulRahim Wardak, said terrorists who would have once fought in Iraq have been "diverted" to Afghanistan."The success of coalition forces in Iraq and also some other issues in some of the neighboring countries have made it possible that there is a major increase in the foreign fighters,"...
... to last year,” yet property sellers are saying that potential buyers are afraid of investing. AbdulRahim, sales executive at RAK properties said sales during Cityscape 2008 were “a little bit down compared with last year.” Mansoureh Ghezipour, property consultant, Best Homes Emirates Real Estate, said, “People trusted the market last year but this year they are afraid of buying....
""ABDULRAHIM WARDAK, Afghan Defense Minister, on NATO's agreement to start attacking opium factories in Afghanistan. Proceeds from opium sales help fund the Taliban
... and the chemical precursors that are coming from outside the country for making heroin," Gen. AbdulRahim Wardak told reporters after meeting his NATO counterparts Thursday.Afghanistan supplies 90 percent of the world's heroin, a trade worth billions of dollars.Until now, responsibility for dealing with the problem has lain with the Afghan police, but NATO commanders believe the fledgling...
