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dipsydoodle

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1. Karzai has already made it clear that the Taliban will become completely off limits to the US
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 06:36 PM
Nov 2013

who will restricted solely to pursuit whatever of the remaining members of al Qaeda - thought to be a hundred or so.

Russia had already surveyed most of the country but had refused to hand over their geological findings.

China will become the greatest beneficary of the resources : not the US. Afghanistan has no issues with the Chinese who could doubltess work there undisturbed. China may also open up the pass which joins the two countries.

Its quite laughable when you put the US invasion of Afganistan in context with the US pulling out of the Moscow Olympics almost 30 years ago when Russia did the same.

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