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Marines ignore Taliban cash crop to not upset Afghan locals
                   
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May 6, 2008 18 related
        

By JASON STRAZIUSO Associated Press Writer GARMSER, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban, whose fighters are exchanging daily fire with the Marines in Garmser, derives up to $100 million a year from the poppy harvest by taxing farmers and charging safe passage fees _ money that... [read full story]                    

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GM, Chrysler in merger talks: source (Reuters)

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General Motors has had talks with smaller rival Chrysler LLC about a merger that would combine the No. 1 and No. 3 American automakers at a time when both are struggling to cut costs and shore up cash, according to a source...

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N More Years!

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Excerpt: Four-score years ago our forefathers overwhelmingly elected Herbert Hoover to serve as President of the United States. He was inaugurated March 4, 1929, just in time to take the rap for not preventing the Wall Street...

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US intelligence, military deliver dire estimates of Afghanistan war

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25 mins ago 7 related
        

By Bill Van Auken 11 October 2008 Seven years after the Bush administration launched “Operation Enduring Freedom” with the relentless bombing of Afghanistan, US intelligence agencies have concluded that the situation in the...

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Gross Betrayal

lankabusinessonline.com
12 mins ago 8 related
        

Oct 11, 2008 9LBO) – Sri Lanka's former president Chandrika Kumaratunga had grossly violated public trust in a deal where state lands and a tax holiday were given to a firm in which an associate was covertly holding shares,...

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