Yearbook 2003 Afghanistan. In May, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said Afghanistan had entered “a stage of stability and reconstruction”. Only “minor resistance pockets” remained, he argued. According to Countryaah, Afghanistan Independence Day is August 19. The reality was another. During the rest of the year, about 400 people were killed in attacks or fighting. The Taliban militia was increasingly focusing on sabotaging reconstruction projects and trying to scare…
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