Afghan president says &#39;fight drugs like Russians&#39;
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has urged his countrymen to tackle the war on drugs with the same zeal they fought the Red Army during the Soviet Union&#39;s decade-long occupation that ended in 1990.
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Afghanistanâs President Hamid Karzai has declared a âholy warâ on Afghanistanâs runaway narcotics industry, calling for international aid to counter a threat he said was more dangerous than any his country has faced in more than 20 years of war.
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KABUL, Afghanistan _ Afghanistan&#39;s newly inaugurated President Hamid Karzai is pushing the fight to control the nation&#39;s booming drug trade to the top of his to-do list.
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KABUL, Afghanistan The Afghan government is blaming drug smugglers for yesterday&#39;s attack on the leading vice presidential candidate .
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Hamid Karzai will seek to rebuild Afghanistan after his inauguration as the devastated country's first freely elected president by tackling the twin scourge of drugs and warlords, his spokesman said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- New Afghan President Hamid Karzai is preparing to meet tribal leaders in a bid to step up the fight against the country&#39;s drug trade.
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GHAZNI, Afghanistan  - Afghan President Hamid  Karzai campaigned on Tuesday for the first time since an  assassination attempt last month, telling cheering supporters  that a historic vote in four days would be a turning point for  the war-torn nation.
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Hamid Karzai pledged Thursday to use his five-year term as Afghanistan&#39;s first elected president to crack down on warlords and the country&#39;s booming drug economy.
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ONLY two days after his inauguration, Afghan President Hamid Karzai is already trying to get the message out: his country has to stem its booming drugs trade if it is to move forward.
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KABUL  - Afghan President Hamid Karzai swore in a new cabinet which sidelines powerful warlords and brings in reformers to battle drugs and rebuild the shattered country.
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November 5, 2004 -- KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said yesterday there was no future for the warlords or drug barons who flourished during three decades of conflict in Afghanistan.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai vowed on Friday to strike Taliban insurgents with "immense vigor and force" as a rebel commander said 10,000 fighters had deployed for a spring offensive against foreign troops in the country.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called a two-day meeting of tribal elders and provincial officials to discuss strategies to combat the country&#39;s burgeoning drug trade.
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Hamid Karzai warns of the dangers of extremism and drugs as he is sworn in as Afghanistan's elected leader.
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WASHINGTON -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai yesterday shrugged off complaints from Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf about his handling of a resurgent Taliban a day ahead of joint talks with Musharraf and President Bush.
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Two days after being sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president, Hamid Karzai called on his countrymen Thursday to wage holy war against the booming Afghan opium trade, which he described as a worse "cancer" than terrorism or the Soviet invasion of 1979.
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BRUSSELS, Belgium The UN says heroin is big business in Afghanistan, and is calling on the United States and NATO to wage war on drug traffickers.