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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.

~Barton Gellman

Topics: Afghanistan Al Control Forces Known Materials Nuclear Searches Significant Since Sites Took Turned Undertaken Up Qaeda

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Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.

~Barton Gellman

Topics: Afghanistan Bin Expelled May Sudan

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A democratic and stable Iraq and Afghanistan are essential to our broader efforts to make no place safe for terrorists and to win the War on Terrorism.

~Ben Nelson

Topics: Afghanistan Broader Democratic Efforts Essential Iraq Make Our Place Safe Stable Terrorism Terrorists War Win

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During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically.

~Ben Shapiro

Topics: Afghanistan After America American Around Cold Cold War Communists Cuts Dramatically Election Fell Globe Influence Military Moved Nixon Once Only Result Richard Richard Nixon Russians Serious Vietnam Vietnam War War

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Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.

~Benazir Bhutto

Topics: Afghanistan Asia Government Me Military Peace Promoting Security South Supporting Threat

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I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is not a funny place.

~Bill Bryson

Topics: Afghanistan Funny Go India Iraq Jokes Like Make Place Places Start Trying Want

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You would have thought that after 9/11 the president would have finished the job in Afghanistan, and kept the focus on capturing Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda deputies, but he and his team gave top priority to their original plan to invade Iraq.

~Bill Nelson

Topics: Afghanistan After Al-Qaeda Bin Capturing Deputy Finished Focus Gave He His Invade Iraq Job Kept Original Plan President Priority Team Thought Top Would You

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I come from a family of pacifists, so it's not like I was going to join the war. Sweden is not like the States or England where you might get sent to Afghanistan next month.

~Bill Skarsgard

Topics: Afghanistan Come England Family Get Going Join Like Might Month Next Sent States Sweden War Where You

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Running on the pledge to end two wars, President Obama has the country entangled in three: Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, and that doesn't include the American's foray into Libya.

~Blake Farenthold

Topics: Afghanistan American Country End Include Iraq Libya Obama Pledge President President Obama Running Syria Three Two Wars

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We in the West walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the Cold War and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again, there will be consequences.

~Bob Ainsworth

Topics: Afghanistan Again Armed Away Cold Cold War Consequences Country Devastated End Left Socially Teeth Walked War West Will

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