Topic: Richard Holbrooke
Reuters US Online Report World News | 2010-02-03 20:11:30
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Afghans would rather be farmers than fighters, the U.S. agriculture secretary said on Wednesday, highlighting a U.S. focus on farming jobs to lure people from the battlefield and curtail the opium trade. Separate from the Afghan-led re-integration plan announced by President Hamid Karzai at a conference in London last week, Washington sees its agriculture program as ...
AP News | 2010-01-21 22:54:54
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband,, right, shakes hands with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking Republican Richard Lugar, R-Ind., second from right, as committee chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., second from left, looks on, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010, on Capitol ...
AP News | 2010-01-21 22:54:51
British Foreign Minister David Miliband, left, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Afghanistan strategy. Richard Holbrooke, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan at the State Department, listens at ...
AP News | 2010-01-17 13:37:19
Richard Holbrooke, U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, speaks during an answers and questions session in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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