Title: Mcgowanjm Wire 2012 Source:
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Heavy fighting taking place in Zamindawar Qari Yousuf Ahmadi E-mail Print PDF Tuesday, 09 Jamadil Akhir 1433 Tuesday, 01 May 2012 14:51 HELMAND, May. 01 – Heavy fighting has been taking place in Zamindawar Sozigar area, Kajaki district since yesterday morning when Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate engaged cowardly US invaders that landed by helicopters in the area for an operation. The fighting is still ongoing today (10:00 am), more details about which will be updated later.
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"Obama's campaign has questioned whether Romney would have made the same decision to authorize the raid that killed bin Laden. On Tuesday in New York Romney said he would have made the same call and criticized Obama for making the issue political.
Politics aside, a senior U.S. official cautioned that no matter what pacts are signed, "Afghanistan is still going to be the third poorest country in the world."
"This is still going to be tough," the official said, adding that the expectation was that the Afghan government will be able to maintain basic security.
That skepticism is shared by the European Union's ambassador to Kabul, who said earlier on Tuesday that Western aid that has been poured into Afghanistan will have a limited impact as long as governance remained poor and corruption widespread.
Afghanistan's government doesn't seem to grasp the magnitude of major challenges just two years ahead of the pullout, Vygaudas Usackas told Reuters in an interview.
"The Afghans have to be in the driving seat," he said. "Probably we made them complacent."
