Ahmed Rashid Quotes - Page 2

• The strategy for peace-building in Afghanistan is economic aid, reconstruction, international security forces. On those lines, the U.S. has been extremely slow. And it has even blocked expanding security forces from Kabul to other cities.

  Ahmed Rashid

  Cities, Kabul, Lines

  Source: progressive.org

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• [Mullah Omar] gave himself this religious title. So it was something that all those people there who swore an oath of loyalty to him as a religious leader could not easily get rid of.

  Ahmed Rashid

  Loyalty, Religious, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There is no way the Americans are going to be able to carry out a full scale war against Iraq and at the same time maintain the same kind of pressure on the Al Qaeda network in countries as diverse as Indonesia, Philippines, and Pakistan, as well as in Europe.

  Ahmed Rashid

  Country, War, Europe

  Source: progressive.org

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