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| | washingtonpost.com: Karzai Thanks Congress, Asks for More Support (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-12) |
 | | In a speech before a joint meeting of Congress in the House chamber, Karzai also said Afghanistan is struggling to deal with private militias, the narcotics trade and widespread poverty, and he called for continued U.S. help and investment. |
 | | Among Afghanistan's recent achievements, he said, have been a program to rebuild schools, resulting in more than 5 million boys and girls attending school today, and the training of an Afghan national army by U.S. troops. |
 | | In addition, he noted, Afghanistan still has the second highest infant mortality rate in the world, only 6 percent of the population has reliable access to electricity, farmers routinely struggle with water shortages and the country's vast mineral resources are undeveloped. |
| www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A42507-2004Jun15?language=printer (1059 words) |
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