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Whiff of Somalia in Canada&#0146s Afghan mission

by Thomas Walkom October 10, 2008October 5, 2021

Some 250 Canadian troops are in Afghanistan and about 1,800 more are on their way. Should they be there at all? That foreign troops are seen as a solution is deeply ironic. Afghanistan&#0146s central

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