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| | Online NewsHour Special Report: Afghanistan, March 29, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | The land that is now Afghanistan has a long history of domination by foreign conquerors and strife among internally warring factions. |
 | | Mahmud of Ghazni, an 11th century conqueror who created an empire from Iran to India, is considered to be the greatest of Afghanistan's conquerors. |
 | | During the 19th century, Britain, to protect its Indian empire from Russia, attempted to annex Afghanistan, resulting in a series of British-Afghan Wars (1838-42, 1878-80, 1919-21). |
| www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/asia/afghanistan/timeline/intro.html (150 words) |
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