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Published: 27 March, 2009, 19:40

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Obama’s newly unveiled strategy is containment of the spread of narco-terrorism from Afghanistan and Pakistan, but it’s also engagement of other stakeholders, said RT’s military analyst Eugene Khrushchev.

For more analysis on Afghanistan please check Eugene Khrushchev's blog.

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