Aid Chief: West Must Wake Up to Afghanistan or Chaos Will Return

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THE West should wake up to Afghanistan's "Cinderella" status before the country spirals back into chaos and becomes a renewed base for terrorism, a leading Scottish aid organiser claimed yesterday.

Brigadier Allan Alstead, former commander of 51st Highland Brigade who now heads Mercy Corps Scotland, said the entire south of Afghanistan was effectively a "no-go" area for Western civilian workers only weeks before the first democratic elections in decades.

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Aid Chief: West Must Wake Up to Afghanistan or Chaos Will Return

Speaking after a visit to Kabul, where he was subjected to a rocket bombardment by Taliban symp...

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