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Afghanistan: Brutal poverty, unemployment and destruction caused by the war

December 23, 2010 Joe Higgins, MEP, Socialist Party (CWI Ireland) Afghanistan

Joe Higgins MEP on the devastation and slaughter of the war on Afghanistan

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