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In Pictures: Gordon Brown’s Knife Crime Campaign Fails In Afghanistan

by | 15th, March 2010

ON the day Gordon Brown lent his giant clunking fist to ‘Count Me In  Together We Can Stop Knife Crime‘, a drive to stamp out youth knife crime, the Taliban were handing over weapons to the Afghan government in Herat, west of Kabul. And not one knife was surrendered. Not. One. Gordon Brown would doubtless be dismayed by this. In other war news:  In Pictures: 15000 Bikers Ride For Afghan Troops In Wootton Bassett:

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A former member of Taliban look at weapons during a ceremony to hand them over to the Afghan government in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 14, 2010. Thirty Taliban militants joined the peace process Sunday and delivered their weapons and ammunition to the Regional Peace and Reconciliation Commission-Western Afghanistan in Herat province. Photo by ParsPix/ABACAPRESS.COM



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