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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
... support of President Hamid Karzai into doubt. Germany's deployment of up to 4,500 soldiers to the Hindu Kush has been unpopular at home, particularly since a German-ordered airstrike in September apparently killed dozens of civilians. Germany provides the third-largest NATO contingent in Afghanistan after the US and Britain. "If we should have to realign our objectives after such...
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ANTI NEW WORLD ORDER (Free subscription) | yesterday
... been taken two years before, and Cyrus was now master of all Asia from the Mediterranean to the Hindu-Kush. The conqueror's hold over Asia Minor and Syria was much strengthened by his friendly relations with the Phoenicians and the Jews , who received the news of his triumphs with joy. After the great king had widened his dominions from the Arabian desert and the Persian gulf on the...
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atlas(t) (Free subscription) | yesterday
i did not know this, but there is a geographic center of the world's population ... the place in the world that is closest, on average, to every person in the world. There is also the antipodal farthest point from everyone on Earth. The center is somewhere in the Hindu Kush, and the farthest point is somewhere near Easter Island. Interesting, no? I mean, interesting that the center is...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... Pashtuns who have historically united to repel foreign invaders from their rugged heartland in the Hindu Kush. From this proposition it follows that, as New York Times columnist Nick Kristof recently argued , sending more western troops to Afghanistan will only provoke a wider nationalist uprising. There's undoubtedly some truth in that. But it ignores the Afghan Taliban's roots in...
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War News Updates (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... United States, if not the other allies, have no intention of withdrawing from the valleys of the Hindu Kush in the near future. Read more .... My Comment : A Russian view and analysis of what is happening in Afghanistan. Hint .... this is not a viewpoint reported in the West.
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Asia Times (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... The RIC meeting in Bangalore took place against the backdrop of the eight-year war in the Hindu Kush radiating negative energy all across neighboring regions - the Caucasusand Central Asia, China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Iran's Sistan-Balochistan province and Pakistan's tribal areas. However, Russian diplomats watched helplessly as eddies in Sino-Indian ties began polluting their...
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PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Frederick Kagan: A network of militant Islamist groups stretches from India to the Iranian border, from the Hindu Kush to the Indian Ocean. These groups include Pashtuns and Punjabis, Arabs and Uzbeks and more. They have no common leader, vision, hierarchy, or goal. But they do agree on a few key points: Any government not based on their interpretation of Islam is illegitimate and apostate;...
