Erik Reuter wrote: >On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 12:43:01PM +1000, Russell Chapman wrote: > >>A Dutch company may just buy the place and run it as a corporation like >>they have a few small African nations. >> > >Not sure if that was a joke. Buy it from whom? > Mostly joking - in the past they have just invested so much money into a country that they "own" the country by virtue of the whole country being dependent on them staying.
> >By the way, in an earlier message you mentioned some countries that >were in Afghanistan to build or re-build. I have a very hard time >finding news stories on who is in Afghanistan and exactly what they are >doing. Can you recommend any articles or sources? > Well, no. I actually looked before I sent that post, and was surprised at how little I could find. All the sites that previously had such good coverage on efforts in Afghanistan seem to now be obsessed with Iraq. I found snippets everywhere - Chinese zoo keepers rebuilding the Kabul zoo, German engineers rebuilding a water supply, Australian mine clearers, etc etc etc but no article about the international effort as such. Headline drive media seems to be driving out the in depth article... An interesting graph on who's paying: http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0827/p01s03-wosc.html Cheers Russell C. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
