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Radio 4,10 Sep 2009,30 mins
Simpson in Afghanistan
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The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s World Affairs Editor John Simpson has been travelling to Afghanistan for nearly 30 years. He has seen Soviet occupation, Soviet withdrawal, civil war, Taliban takeover and Taliban defeat. Now, he reports from a country still at war eight years after the American-led intervention in 2001, and asks how things went wrong.
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