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Jul 2 2009, Ikramuddin Bahram

Everything in the world doesn’t necessarily happen for the first time. American soldiers are supposedly the “prime targets” of Taliban and Al-Qaeda as is put forth by the American agencies working on the ground in Afghanistan. Fair enough is...

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