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Article: Power struggle goes on: the US government has increased the number of US troops from 11,000 to 20,000 in the hope of destroying the remnants of the Taliban in the south and hunting down Osama bin Laden. But while the US continues to battle with radical militias and terrorists, security in Afghanistan is coming apart.(Afghanistan)
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- The Middle East
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- August 1, 2004
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OUR PROBLEMS ARE not as big as they are in Iraq. But if we don't do something soon, Afghanistan will be in the same situation," explained Lutfullah Mashal, special assistant to the Minister of interior in Afghanistan. "We are getting ever closer to chaos."
This spring, the Taliban, which has been able to regroup, launched an offensive that has left over 700 Afghanis dead. In recent weeks terrorist attacks in the north killed or seriously injured dozens of aid workers and civilians; a single assault on Chinese railway workers left 11 dead.
The Afghani interim government, headed by President Hamid Karzai, has limited control over only the capital area of ...