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But, Helga, the French surely had no colonial influence in Afghanistan, not even ever selling/brokering arms sales to them.From: "Helga do Rosario Gomes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Goanet]Re: Arafat, Palestine Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 17:37:27 +0900
They would certainly have wishe to do that but were effectively preempted by the Us and USSR.
My best compliments to dear Wiki! AT
Fred, in 2005 I am going to call you Wiki !
And another journalist friend (Stacey) told me that they were mulling over
relocating the displaced Jews to Alaska?
Oddly, post 9/11 we used to read a lot of articles on the role played by
the west in bring this 'evil man' Sadaam to power and once the NYT had a
small article about how the CIA had supplied satellite imagery to Sadaam
showing the movements of the Iranian troops as they approached and probably
were poised to take over the small coast that Iraq possesses. For Iraq,
losing that would have spelt doom or so the article said. The images gave
him the exact location of the troops and then he gassed them and of course
they retreated. Nowadays I hardly ever read any analysis about how Saddam
came to power, how other Iraqi leaders, unappetizing/unattractive to a West
were overthrown and of course what happened in Afghanistan during the
Russian occupation. In the latter, I read (also in the NYT) that the French
who understand the people of its colonies well, encouraged the Afghanis to
kill Russians in the name do God because the Russians as Communists were not
supposed to believe in one. What happened to articles such as these? Maybe I
should be looking in Wikipedia?!!! Now I want to make one of those smileys
but I do not know how to!
Helga
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> Tim posted a very interesting backgrounder on this issue.
>
> Since I needed to educate myself about a subject we hardly hear the
intricacies
> of in this part of the globe, no prizes for guessing (specially for you,
Helga)
> which was the next URL-destination. Right, it was http://en.wikipedia.org
>
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