Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Sunday he is considering sending personnel to Afghanistan for land-based activities.''We could be involved in land-based activities in Afghanistan if the conditions there enable us to deploy. I'm always considering such a possibility," Fukuda
TOKYO, June 1 (UPI) -- Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Sunday he is considering sending personnel to Afghanistan for "land-based activities."
Afghanistan supplies virtually all of the world's illegal opium. Last year, the country's drug trade was a $4 billion business, half of which alone was produced in the south where the fighting against the Taliban insurgency is the fiercest.
Getting Afghanistan to rid itself of poppy is a pillar of U.S. policy there, because the Taliban use profits from opium as a source of revenue. For Afghans themselves, however, feelings about poppy are conflicted: It's harmful to their country
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Peter Spiege reports in the LA Times, from Singapore:A senior Chinese general insisted Saturday that Beijing's military buildup was solely for self-defense, as he sought to assure a gathering of Asian defense officials that China was not seeking to dominate
From AP, via the LA Times:A military transport helicopter crashed in China's earthquake-devastated south-central region with 14 people aboard, the official news agency said today.The New China News Agency's report gave no word on any survivors or casualties. The report
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Convicted Hezbollah spy returned from Israel to a hero's welcome in Lebanon Sunday, while Hezbollah turned over the remains of what it said were dead Israeli soldiers in what could be first stage of a larger prisoner exchange between the
Australia, a staunch U.S. ally and one of the first countries to commit troops to the Iraq war five years ago, has ended combat operations there, a Defense Department official said.
