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former9thward

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14. What minerals are being stolen?

Reply to Corgigal (Reply #12)

Tue Aug 22, 2017, 06:11 PM

Aug 2017

And by whom? I know there is a standard internet meme that there are "a trillion dollars" worth of minerals in Afghanistan. (These internet allegations always have a nice round number that everyone can remember) But no one ever says who is stealing them or how. We have been there for 16 years. Plenty of time to steal things so I wonder why no one can ever identify the culprit.

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... leftstreet Aug 2017 #9

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What minerals are being stolen? former9thward Aug 2017 #14

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