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Report of Senators Carl Levin and Bob Casey – Travel to Pakistan and Afghanistan

Report of Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) and Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) – Travel to Pakistan and Afghanistan, June 3, 2008.

“Pakistan has been plagued by terrorism in recent times and its Army has suffered substantial casualties in recent months. The safe havens in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) (including North and South Waziristan) and the Quetta area provide training areas and launching points for Al Qaeda and Taliban incursions into Afghanistan.

“Afghanistan is in the seventh year of a war that has seen the expulsion of the Taliban, the restoration of democracy, the installation of a transitional government, the adoption of a Constitution, the election of a President and a bicameral legislature, and the mounting of an insurgency by a rejuvenated Taliban that draws support from al Qaeda and drug traffickers. It produces more than 90% of the world’s heroin.”

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