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U.S. Identifies Vast Mineral Riches in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON — The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan 


Thank the Soviets for Afghan mineral bounty
Geologists announced this week that a trillion dollars' worth of mineral reserves had been found in the country. But efforts to survey mineral deposits started with the Soviet occupation, when Soviet and Afghan surveyors drew up maps of underlying geology.


Taleban in Texas for talks on gas pipeline
A senior delegation from the Taleban movement in Afghanistan is in the United States for talks with an international energy company that wants to construct a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan across Afghanistan to Pakistan.  


The CIA's Intervention in Afghanistan
Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski,
President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser
According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. 


Svenska styrkor får använda dödligt våld
I början av mars i år efterlyste den tidigare chefen för den svenska Afghanistanstyrkan, Christer Tistam, mer befogenheter att använda våld.