Returning Afghans were promised a new life. They have misery and death

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http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/world.shtml#18021

To Kabul's new rich, the suburb of Karte Sakhi is an unpleasant reminder of what Afghans did to themselves in the civil war, a place to move through swiftly in their four-wheel-drive cars. To the most destitute and desperate of the city's poor, it is home.

Like a latter-day version of the ruins of Dresden in 1945, the devastation is breathtaking. Once it was a pleasant tree-lined district. Now only the metal stumps of street lamps remain from rocket explosions which blew down buildings and scarred walls with shrapnel.

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1. The Guardian article in full:

The link:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=610871

It sure is a sad thing, what we call war. And the masses wonder why us determined liberals only see a bad outcome from war...

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2. Yeah - the Oil rich part of Nigeria wanted to be sovergn too. It was

aka the Biafrin Civil War. Have these Texans not been watching the news? (okay that was obvious). But ask Venezuela & every nation in the Middle East what it feels like to:

1) sit on oil
2) be relatively small vis a vis the empires.

It has not been pretty.

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3. But look at the bright side. Unocal gets its pipeline now n/t

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4. LBN?

"YubaNet" seems a bit iffy as an LBN source to me.

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5. Hit the alert and complain to the moderators if something is improper n/t