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2006-07-24 Afghanistan
Creditors write off Afghanistan's debt
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Posted by Steve White 2006-07-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 What is it with the Russians thinking that they would have ever got $10.4G back from Afghanistan's old Taliban gov't? They repeated the same stupid mistake with Iraq, too, only more so, if I remember right. Or maybe both mistakes were done in parallel, so we'll call it one mistake. The Germans did essentially the same thing, I believe. And the French got suckered by Iraq too, I think. I have a hard time believing that the Taliban or Saddam, with their dinky economies, had any intention of paying off their debt, but were planning on stringing out the Russians for their veto should the UN come knocking, and for German support should world events conspire against Iraq's terrorist ways. Anybody know anything here? Was Iraq going to pay the Russians back with cheap oil or something? Am I messed up?

Does Iran fall into this category somehow, too? It might explain a lot.
Posted by gorb 2006-07-24 02:05||   2006-07-24 02:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Iraq at least had its oil reserves. God only knows what they thought was securing ten billion dollars of Afghani debt - the poppy trade? Was Russia going to take it out in black tar?
Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H.  2006-07-24 08:12|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]  2006-07-24 08:12|| Front Page Top

#3 why the hell can't my debt be written off?
Posted by Thromort Glomoger4987 2006-07-24 16:48||   2006-07-24 16:48|| Front Page Top

#4 You're not sitting on several hundred tons of prime Afghani brown, pal...
Posted by mojo">mojo  2006-07-24 17:35||   2006-07-24 17:35|| Front Page Top

#5 The Taliban would never have anything to do with commerce in drugs. After all, it's unislamic! Or at least you think it would be . . . .
Posted by gorb 2006-07-24 20:41||   2006-07-24 20:41|| Front Page Top

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