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(CNN) -- Local security forces and coalition soldiers in western Afghanistan killed several insurgents Thursday in what the NATO command called a "successful operation against high-priority Taliban targets."

British troops detain suspected Taliban Militants during a recent operation in Afghanistan.

The operation took place in the Shindand district of Herat province. Two Taliban leaders, Haji Dawlat Khan and Haji Nasrullah Khan, and "significant number of other insurgents" were killed, according to a statement from NATO's International Security Assistance Force.

It added there was no evidence of civilian casualties or accidental damage in the operation, in which a "number of men were discovered handcuffed and imprisoned in appalling conditions in one of the insurgent compounds."

The incident reflects the increasing violence between troops and Taliban militants across Afghanistan and the growing concern in the United States that the war there should be more of a priority than it has been.

Since May, the deaths of U.S. and allied troops have far outpaced the toll in Iraq. On Thursday, the toll in Afghanistan was 21 compared to six in Iraq. The International Security Assistance Force did not provide the nationality of the soldier who died in Afghanistan Thursday.

Two top Pentagon officials said Wednesday they expect to be able to recommend more troop reductions in Iraq this fall and will try to find ways to increase troops in Afghanistan.

One of the toughest fronts in the war has been the southern province of Helmand.

The British Defense Ministry said its troops in southern Afghanistan killed a senior Taliban leader, two weeks after another leading militant died in a British missile attack.

Mullah Bismullah Akhund was killed Saturday in the Now Zad district of Helmand, long a Taliban bastion.

The Defense Ministry, in a statement on Wednesday, called Bismullah "a senior key facilitator and logistician responsible for the northern Helmand region." The ministry says his death will disrupt the Taliban's leadership structure and hamper the group's ability to conduct attacks.

"He is believed to have commanded numerous fighters and was identified by Task Force Helmand as a key player in the insurgency, and criminality, before the strike," according to ISAF.

British troops, which are part of the assistance force, announced the killing on Thursday. Saturday's operation occurred 15 days after British troops killed another senior Taliban militant, Sadiqullah, in an Apache missile strike.

"Bismullah was closely associated with local Taliban leader Mullah Rahim, whose brother was also killed during this operation," ISAF said.

The Defense Ministry said that "combined with the elimination of Sadiqullah, this is the most significant blow struck against the Taliban logistics and facilitation chain in northern Helmand this year."

The U.S.-led coalition said it also is investigating an airstrike in western Afghanistan's Farah province. Launched after a coalition convoy was attacked Tuesday, it struck a house and killed eight civilians.

CNN's Joe Sterling contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- Two crew members were taken to a hospital after a FedEx cargo plane crashed on landing Tuesday morning at the Lubbock, Texas, airport, officials said.

A damaged FedEx ATR-42 lies beside a runway early Tuesday at the Lubbock, Texas, airport.

The injuries appeared to be minor, said James Loomis, director of Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport.

There was a small fire on the plane, the Federal Aviation Administration and FedEx spokeswoman Sandra Munoz said. Munoz said she was not sure about the extent of the damage.

The plane is an ATR-42 twin-turboprop aircraft and landed short of the touchdown zone at 4:37 a.m. CT (5:47 ET), Loomis said.

Munoz said the plane had been traveling from Fort Worth Alliance Airport and skidded off the runway amid light freezing rain. iReport.com: Are you there? Send photos, video

Neither official could immediately say what caused the accident, and Munoz didn't know why parts of the plane caught fire.

The plane was operated by Empire Airways, which is under contract with FedEx Corp., based in Memphis, Tennessee.

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(CNN) -- October has been the deadliest month for the US and NATO militaries fighting in Afghanistan as well as UN workers trying to organize an election runoff. Surely the surge in deaths serves to underscore why Afghanistan matters.

For all the debate happening away from the battlefield, here are a couple of important bottom-line questions:

Is the world prepared to see the Taliban and their opportunistic allies al Qaeda return to power in Afghanistan? Are people prepared for the terrorists' dream- photo-op of Mullah Omar and Osama Bin Laden sitting smiling together in Kabul?

And here's what's at stake:

The West fortunately has been free of terrorist attacks on its major cities in the last few years, but it was not so long ago that the London Tube bombings; mass murder in Madrid; mayhem in Mumbai in 2008;  the murders of Benazir Bhutto and Daniel Pearl; the Bali bombing; the shoe bomber and, of course, 9/11 and the attacks on the World Trade Center changed our world and our way of life.

Together, those events created pervasive fear and anxiety, not to mention a change in our lifestyle caused by security measures in airports, trains, banking transactions and office buildings.

What all of these events have in common is that the perpetrators all came from, visited, were financed by, or were led by terrorist organizations operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan, especially the ungovernable territories on those countries' border. The Bush administration, in the view of some, may have gone too far in responding to these events by creating an all-encompassing "war on terrorism."

However, for the eight long years America and NATO countries have been at war in Afghanistan, this war, uniquely in modern history, is still supported by all the world's major powers, the neighbors of Afghanistan, and mostly by the people of Afghanistan, who dread both insecurity and a return to the brutal horrors of the Taliban.

If the threat of new terrorist attacks is not enough, what about the threat of a nuclear catastrophe?

Look at Pakistan this week. Horrific bombings in the frontier town of Peshawar and elsewhere have also killed scroes of people, just as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives to firm up security and development co-operation with that country.

While foreign policy and intelligence experts continue to worry that terrorism, Islamic extremism, the continued threat of renewed war between Pakistan and India, plus the presence of nuclear weapons in the arsenals of both countries, could prove a combustible mix in the not-too-distant future. This is not scare-mongering; it's simply the reality that what happens in South Asia could affect all of our lives. That's why all of us must be concerned by the outcome of the war that is being fought today in mountains of the tribal areas in Pakistan and the plains of Afghanistan.

Many of the soldiers and officers I speak to in Afghanistan say the best way to beat back the threat of Taliban insurgents is with boots on the ground and additional military resources, as well as a proper development assistance for the Afghan civilians. The Afghan people need protecting and enabling.

I have been reporting from Afghanistan since 1996 and the one thing I've noticed over the years is that every Afghan asks foremost for security. Then next on the list is development to help them earn a decent living and raise their families. They also want a decent government. They know this will take years of patience and effort. They know it will be a hard slog. After all, they have been at war for 30 years now, during which the traditional, honor-bound society they had for decades has all but vanished.

Though it is true that fierce tribal traditions mean some Afghans distrust even the tribe next door, not to mention foreign troops, over and again, Afghan men, women and children have told me they do not see the U.S. and NATO forces as occupiers, rather as armies from countries who came to help them ... but who have fallen short of their promises.

This fear and disenchantment is what the Taliban feeds on today. They want the U.S. and NATO out, they try to convince the people those outsiders are occupiers bent on harming them. And yet, if you look at the current trends and the latest polls in Afghanistan, despite massive governmental corruption, abuse and dysfunction, the majority of the people want nothing to do with the Taliban.

Polls show only a tiny minority support them. And that is mostly because they are desperate for security and safety, something the West has failed to follow through on after roundly defeating the Taliban and al Qaeda in seven weeks after 9/11.

And across the border in Pakistan surveys show Osama Bin Laden has lost his luster among Muslim youth. Support for Islamic extremists is dropping. The Pakistani government is finally fighting back against the extremists who threaten the future of this mostly moderate Muslim country. Under pressure, the militants are lashing out in parts of the country.

See Christiane Amanpour's special report on "Generation Islam"

Unfortunately, at this crucial moment, people in America and Europe are tiring of their governments' support for the war in Afghanistan and the battles in remote parts of Pakistan. The agonized debate over strategy in Washington hides the sad fact that since sending the Taliban and al Qaeda packing, shortsighted U.S. vision snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.

The Bush administration mostly ignored Afghanistan while diverting its attention and resources to Iraq. Now that the U.S. is finally refocusing on the war in Afghanistan it's an opportunity to look at what is at stake: the urgency of finishing the job in Afghanistan pitted against the real war-weariness of western voters. This is the dilemma of the modern world where the latest of life's challenges such as the financial crisis, unemployment, new flu pandemics, health care, and the housing market dominate daily life.

Getting the job done in Afghanistan will take years in time and resources. It will require faith and patience. The mass media is not the best place to reflect that. It does not usually focus on the hard slog, instead it is constantly in search of the new and the now.

But the next time there is a major terrorist attack, in all likelihood it will have been generated by an organization somewhere near the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Again, people will ask: Why weren't our leaders and the media there to warn us of the dangers?

As a member of the media I believe that's our job: to report the facts.

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text: plus

text: the

text: presence

text: of

text: nuclear

text: weapons

text: in

text: the

text: arsenals

text: of

text: both

text: countries

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text: prove

text: a

text: combustible

text: mix

text: in

text: the

text: not

text: too

text: distant

text: future

text: This

text: is

text: not

text: scare

text: mongering

text: it

text: 's

text: simply

text: the

text: reality

text: that

text: what

text: happens

text: in

text: South

text: Asia

text: could

text: affect

text: all

text: of

text: our

text: lives

text: That

text: 's

text: why

text: all

text: of

text: us

text: must

text: be

text: concerned

text: by

text: the

text: outcome

text: of

text: the

text: war

text: that

text: is

text: being

text: fought

text: today

text: in

text: mountains

text: of

text: the

text: tribal

text: areas

text: in

text: Pakistan

text: and

text: the

text: plains

text: of

text: Afghanistan

text: Many

text: of

text: the

text: soldiers

text: and

text: officers

text: I

text: speak

text: to

text: in

text: Afghanistan

text: say

text: the

text: best

text: way

text: to

text: beat

text: back

text: the

text: threat

text: of

text: Taliban

text: insurgents

text: is

text: with

text: boots

text: on

text: the

text: ground

text: and

text: additional

text: military

text: resources

text: as

text: well

text: as

text: a

text: proper

text: development

text: assistance

text: for

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text: Afghan

text: civilians

text: The

text: Afghan

text: people

text: need

text: protecting

text: and

text: enabling

text: I

text: have

text: been

text: reporting

text: from

text: Afghanistan

text: since

text: and

text: the

text: one

text: thing

text: I

text: 've

text: noticed

text: over

text: the

text: years

text: is

text: that

text: every

text: Afghan

text: asks

text: foremost

text: for

text: security

text: Then

text: next

text: on

text: the

text: list

text: is

text: development

text: to

text: help

text: them

text: earn

text: a

text: decent

text: living

text: and

text: raise

text: their

text: families

text: They

text: also

text: want

text: a

text: decent

text: government

text: They

text: know

text: this

text: will

text: take

text: years

text: of

text: patience

text: and

text: effort

text: They

text: know

text: it

text: will

text: be

text: a

text: hard

text: slog

text: After

text: all

text: they

text: have

text: been

text: at

text: war

text: for

text: years

text: now

text: during

text: which

text: the

text: traditional

text: honor

text: bound

text: society

text: they

text: had

text: for

text: decades

text: has

text: all

text: but

text: vanished

text: Though

text: it

text: is

text: true

text: that

text: fierce

text: tribal

text: traditions

text: mean

text: some

text: Afghans

text: distrust

text: even

text: the

text: tribe

text: next

text: door

text: not

text: to

text: mention

text: foreign

text: troops

text: over

text: and

text: again

text: Afghan

text: men

text: women

text: and

text: children

text: have

text: told

text: me

text: they

text: do

text: not

text: see

text: the

text: U.S.

text: and

text: NATO

text: forces

text: as

text: occupiers

text: rather

text: as

text: armies

text: from

text: countries

text: who

text: came

text: to

text: help

text: them

text: but

text: who

text: have

text: fallen

text: short

text: of

text: their

text: promises

text: This

text: fear

text: and

text: disenchantment

text: is

text: what

text: the

text: Taliban

text: feeds

text: on

text: today

text: They

text: want

text: the

text: U.S.

text: and

text: NATO

text: out

text: they

text: try

text: to

text: convince

text: the

text: people

text: those

text: outsiders

text: are

text: occupiers

text: bent

text: on

text: harming

text: them

text: And

text: yet

text: if

text: you

text: look

text: at

text: the

text: current

text: trends

text: and

text: the

text: latest

text: polls

text: in

text: Afghanistan

text: despite

text: massive

text: governmental

text: corruption

text: abuse

text: and

text: dysfunction

text: the

text: majority

text: of

text: the

text: people

text: want

text: nothing

text: to

text: do

text: with

text: the

text: Taliban

text: Polls

text: show

text: only

text: a

text: tiny

text: minority

text: support

text: them

text: And

text: that

text: is

text: mostly

text: because

text: they

text: are

text: desperate

text: for

text: security

text: and

text: safety

text: something

text: the

text: West

text: has

text: failed

text: to

text: follow

text: through

text: on

text: after

text: roundly

text: defeating

text: the

text: Taliban

text: and

text: al

text: Qaeda

text: in

text: seven

text: weeks

text: after

text: And

text: across

text: the

text: border

text: in

text: Pakistan

text: surveys

text: show

text: Osama

text: Bin

text: Laden

text: has

text: lost

text: his

text: luster

text: among

text: Muslim

text: youth

text: Support

text: for

text: Islamic

text: extremists

text: is

text: dropping

text: The

text: Pakistani

text: government

text: is

text: finally

text: fighting

text: back

text: against

text: the

text: extremists

text: who

text: threaten

text: the

text: future

text: of

text: this

text: mostly

text: moderate

text: Muslim

text: country

text: Under

text: pressure

text: the

text: militants

text: are

text: lashing

text: out

text: in

text: parts

text: of

text: the

text: country

text: See

text: Christiane

text: Amanpour

text: 's

text: special

text: report

text: on

text: Generation

text: Islam

text: Unfortunately

text: at

text: this

text: crucial

text: moment

text: people

text: in

text: America

text: and

text: Europe

text: are

text: tiring

text: of

text: their

text: governments

text: support

text: for

text: the

text: war

text: in

text: Afghanistan

text: and

text: the

text: battles

text: in

text: remote

text: parts

text: of

text: Pakistan

text: The

text: agonized

text: debate

text: over

text: strategy

text: in

text: Washington

text: hides

text: the

text: sad

text: fact

text: that

text: since

text: sending

text: the

text: Taliban

text: and

text: al

text: Qaeda

text: packing

text: shortsighted

text: U.S.

text: vision

text: snatched

text: defeat

text: from

text: the

text: jaws

text: of

text: victory

text: The

text: Bush

text: administration

text: mostly

text: ignored

text: Afghanistan

text: while

text: diverting

text: its

text: attention

text: and

text: resources

text: to

text: Iraq

text: Now

text: that

text: the

text: U.S.

text: is

text: finally

text: refocusing

text: on

text: the

text: war

text: in

text: Afghanistan

text: it

text: 's

text: an

text: opportunity

text: to

text: look

text: at

text: what

text: is

text: at

text: stake

text: the

text: urgency

text: of

text: finishing

text: the

text: job

text: in

text: Afghanistan

text: pitted

text: against

text: the

text: real

text: war

text: weariness

text: of

text: western

text: voters

text: This

text: is

text: the

text: dilemma

text: of

text: the

text: modern

text: world

text: where

text: the

text: latest

text: of

text: life

text: 's

text: challenges

text: such

text: as

text: the

text: financial

text: crisis

text: unemployment

text: new

text: flu

text: pandemics

text: health

text: care

text: and

text: the

text: housing

text: market

text: dominate

text: daily

text: life

text: Getting

text: the

text: job

text: done

text: in

text: Afghanistan

text: will

text: take

text: years

text: in

text: time

text: and

text: resources

text: It

text: will

text: require

text: faith

text: and

text: patience

text: The

text: mass

text: media

text: is

text: not

text: the

text: best

text: place

text: to

text: reflect

text: that

text: It

text: does

text: not

text: usually

text: focus

text: on

text: the

text: hard

text: slog

text: instead

text: it

text: is

text: constantly

text: in

text: search

text: of

text: the

text: new

text: and

text: the

text: now

text: But

text: the

text: next

text: time

text: there

text: is

text: a

text: major

text: terrorist

text: attack

text: in

text: all

text: likelihood

text: it

text: will

text: have

text: been

text: generated

text: by

text: an

text: organization

text: somewhere

text: near

text: the

text: border

text: of

text: Pakistan

text: and

text: Afghanistan

text: Again

text: people

text: will

text: ask

text: Why

text: were

text: n't

text: our

text: leaders

text: and

text: the

text: media

text: there

text: to

text: warn

text: us

text: of

text: the

text: dangers

text: As

text: a

text: member

text: of

text: the

text: media

text: I

text: believe

text: that

text: 's

text: our

text: job

text: to

text: report

text: the

text: facts

question: Who will the Taliban bring with them?

answer: al Qaeda

text: al Qaeda

question: What do Afghans feel about NATO?

answer: armies from countries who came to help them

text: armies from countries who came to help them

question: Who does Amanpour say is allied with the Taliban?

answer: al Qaeda

text: al Qaeda

question: Who is the ally of Al Qaeda?

answer: the Taliban

text: the Taliban

question: Who do the Afghan people believe have fallen short on their promises according to Amanpour?

answer: U.S. and NATO forces

text: U.S. and NATO forces

question: What do the Afghans want?

answer: security.

text: security.


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(CNN) -- Botswana has been hailed as one of Africa's success stories and a beacon for democracy on the continent. It's home to Africa's longest continuous multi-party democracy and has remained politically stable since gaining independence in 1966.

President Ian Khama took office in April 2008 promising steady progress.

At its helm is President Ian Khama, the country's former vice president and son of Botswana's founding president.

The diamond trade and disciplined government have helped to transform Botswana from one of the world's poorest nations to a middle-income country. But there are still large problem facing the country, including the world's second high level of HIV infections, according to the World Bank, and a slowing of the countries economic growth.

The 56-year-old Khama took over office in April 2008, succeeding Festus Mogae who had been in power for 10 years, promising no radical departure from his predecessor's policies.

Khama was born in southern England and trained at the UK's Sandhurst Military Academy before returning to Botswana and later becoming the commander of the Botswana Defence Force.

He left the military in 1998 to take up the position of vice president. As the son of Botswana's most popular former president, political analysts inside the country have expected Khama to unite the factions in the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) and continue steady economic and political progress.

While Khama has only been in power for 11 months, there has been some criticism that his style is too authoritarian.

Citing Afrobarometer, an independent research group, Botswana's newspaper Sunday Standard recently wrote that there was a growing public perception that Khama has issued more directives compared to his predecessors.

One area in which he has taken a definite line is on his policy towards neighboring Zimbabwe, publicly opposing the government of President Robert Mugabe and declaring it illegitimate.

A general election is set for October 2009, with the BDP expected to win. No other political party has held power in Botswana and some commentators fear the emergence of a political dynasty that would affect Botswana's democracy.

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text: Botswana

text: has

text: been

text: hailed

text: as

text: one

text: of

text: Africa

text: 's

text: success

text: stories

text: and

text: a

text: beacon

text: for

text: democracy

text: on

text: the

text: continent

text: It

text: 's

text: home

text: to

text: Africa

text: 's

text: longest

text: continuous

text: multi

text: party

text: democracy

text: and

text: has

text: remained

text: politically

text: stable

text: since

text: gaining

text: independence

text: in

text: President

text: Ian

text: Khama

text: took

text: office

text: in

text: April

text: promising

text: steady

text: progress

text: At

text: its

text: helm

text: is

text: President

text: Ian

text: Khama

text: the

text: country

text: 's

text: former

text: vice

text: president

text: and

text: son

text: of

text: Botswana

text: 's

text: founding

text: president

text: The

text: diamond

text: trade

text: and

text: disciplined

text: government

text: have

text: helped

text: to

text: transform

text: Botswana

text: from

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: world

text: 's

text: poorest

text: nations

text: to

text: a

text: middle

text: income

text: country

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text: there

text: are

text: still

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text: problem

text: facing

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text: country

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text: second

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text: infections

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text: World

text: Bank

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text: the

text: countries

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text: over

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text: predecessor

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text: policies

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text: born

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text: southern

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text: trained

text: at

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text: UK

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text: Sandhurst

text: Military

text: Academy

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text: returning

text: to

text: Botswana

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text: later

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text: the

text: commander

text: of

text: the

text: Botswana

text: Defence

text: Force

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text: military

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text: to

text: take

text: up

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text: position

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text: vice

text: president

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text: son

text: of

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text: most

text: popular

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text: president

text: political

text: analysts

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text: the

text: country

text: have

text: expected

text: Khama

text: to

text: unite

text: the

text: factions

text: in

text: the

text: ruling

text: Botswana

text: Democratic

text: Party

text: BDP

text: and

text: continue

text: steady

text: economic

text: and

text: political

text: progress

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text: Khama

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text: been

text: in

text: power

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text: months

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text: has

text: been

text: some

text: criticism

text: that

text: his

text: style

text: is

text: too

text: authoritarian

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text: an

text: independent

text: research

text: group

text: Botswana

text: 's

text: newspaper

text: Sunday

text: Standard

text: recently

text: wrote

text: that

text: there

text: was

text: a

text: growing

text: public

text: perception

text: that

text: Khama

text: has

text: issued

text: more

text: directives

text: compared

text: to

text: his

text: predecessors

text: One

text: area

text: in

text: which

text: he

text: has

text: taken

text: a

text: definite

text: line

text: is

text: on

text: his

text: policy

text: towards

text: neighboring

text: Zimbabwe

text: publicly

text: opposing

text: the

text: government

text: of

text: President

text: Robert

text: Mugabe

text: and

text: declaring

text: it

text: illegitimate

text: A

text: general

text: election

text: is

text: set

text: for

text: October

text: with

text: the

text: BDP

text: expected

text: to

text: win

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text: other

text: political

text: party

text: has

text: held

text: power

text: in

text: Botswana

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text: some

text: commentators

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text: the

text: emergence

text: of

text: a

text: political

text: dynasty

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text: would

text: affect

text: Botswana

text: 's

text: democracy

question: Who is President of Botswana?

answer: Ian Khama

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question: what is the presidents name

answer: Ian Khama

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question: Is Botswana one of Africa's success stories?

answer: of

text: of

question: Which country is one of Africa's succees stories?

answer: Botswana

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question: Who is Botswana's president?

answer: Ian Khama

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(CNN) -- A Florida man arrested with his wife on anabolic steroid possession charges claimed to have sold steroids to professional hockey and baseball players in the District of Columbia, but the National Hockey League and Washington Capitals said Wednesday they doubted the allegation.

Richard Thomas and his wife, Sandra, were arrested Tuesday night at their home in Lakeland, Florida.

Richard Thomas, 35, told officers he sold the steroids to unidentified players on the NHL's Capitals and the Washington Nationals of baseball's National League, said Sheriff Grady Judd of Polk County, Florida.

"Richard Thomas told us that he sold steroids to ballplayers on those teams," Judd said after the arrests late Tuesday night. "Now, is that one ballplayer to two ballplayers? We don't know."

NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said the league would investigate the claim, but added that the Washington Capitals "have no knowledge of any aspect of this allegation."

"Capitals players were subjected to no-notice testing five separate times over the past two seasons pursuant to the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement and there was no indication of any improper conduct or wrongdoing," Daly said in a statement issued Wednesday.

A separate statement by Capitals president Dick Patrick said the team had "no reason to believe there is any merit to this story," but would fully cooperate with the NHL's investigation.

MLB.com, the Web site of Major League Baseball, reported Wednesday that the league would look into the allegation involving the Washington Nationals. The report posted on the Web site of the Washington Nationals quoted Nationals president Stan Kasten as saying the team knew nothing about the steroids claim, and that the league was handling it.

Thomas and his wife, Sandra, 49, were arrested Tuesday night at their home in Lakeland, Florida, on 21 counts of possession of anabolic steroids, importation of anabolic steroids and maintaining a residence for drug sales, Judd said. He said the couple has been charged with 10 counts of steroid possession with intent to distribute, 10 counts of importing the drugs and one count of maintaining a residence for drug sales.

According to Judd, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Philadelphia received information that the Florida couple would be receiving a shipment of steroids. Judd's office then obtained a search warrant for the Lakeland home, where officers found steroids from points outside the United States, including Iran, he said.

The arrest report says Richard Thomas told officers he was "the biggest steroids dealer in central Florida."

Bond for Richard and Sandra Thomas was set at $215,000 each, said Carrie Eleazer, spokeswoman for the Polk County Sheriff's Office, and Sandra Thomas was released on bail Wednesday afternoon.

The two are scheduled to make an initial court appearance Thursday.

CNN's John Couwels contributed to this report.

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WASHINGTON (CNN)  -- Insurgents' use of roadside bombs has increased dramatically in Afghanistan this year, according to Pentagon statistics, and the United States' top military official is calling them the "No. 1 threat" to troops there.

An IED is exploded by U.S. Marines near the remote village of Baqwa, Afghanistan, in March.

In June there were 736 incidents in Afghanistan involving roadside bombs, called improvised explosive devices or IEDs, and 82 "effective attacks," ones that caused casualties among coalition forces, the figures show.

That was up from 263 incidents and 25 effective attacks in February, with the numbers increasing each month, said the Pentagon's Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, an agency dedicated to thwarting roadside bombs.

The number of coalition forces killed and wounded by such bombs has climbed, though not steadily, from 18 killed and 33 wounded in February to 23 killed and 166 wounded in June, the agency said.

No numbers were provided for July, but such attacks have continued this month. In the latest, roadside bombs killed two NATO-led troops on Thursday, one in eastern Afghanistan and the other in southern Afghanistan.

The military has called IEDs the weapon of choice for insurgents in that country.

And at the National Press Club on Wednesday, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in response to a reporter's question that the biggest threat to coalition troops in Afghanistan is improvised explosive devices.  Watch Adm. Mullen address efforts in Afghanistan Â»

He noted that they "have become more and more sophisticated over time" and that they are being combined with "more and more sophisticated attacks from the Taliban, where they use IEDs as well as other tactics to inflict or to fight our troops."

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JENA, Louisiana (CNN)  -- Charges against Bryant Purvis, one of the six black students accused of being involved in beating a white student, were reduced to second degree aggravated battery during his arraignment Wednesday morning.

Bryant Purvis says he is focusing on his studies and practicing basketball.

Purvis, who was facing charges of second-degree attempted murder and conspiracy, entered a not guilty plea to the reduced charges in the LaSalle Parish Courthouse in Jena.

Charges have now been reduced against at least five of the students in the racially charged "Jena 6" case. Charges against Jesse Ray Beard, who was 14 at the time of the alleged crime, are unavailable because he's a juvenile.

Civil rights leaders Martin Luther King III and Al Sharpton led more than 15,000 marchers to Jena -- a town of about 3,000 -- in September to protest how authorities handled the cases against Purvis and five other teens accused of the December 2006 beating of fellow student Justin Barker.

After the arraignment, Purvis said he has moved to another town to complete high school. He said he is focusing on his studies and practicing basketball, which he hopes to play in college.

Mychal Bell, 17, is the only one of the "Jena 6" teens still in jail. Although he was released in September after his adult criminal conviction for the beating was overturned, he was ordered two weeks later to spend 18 months in a juvenile facility for a probation violation relating to an earlier juvenile conviction.

A district judge tossed out Bell's conviction for conspiracy to commit second-degree battery, saying the matter should have been handled in juvenile court. The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal in Lake Charles, Louisiana, did the same with Bell's battery conviction in mid-September.

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(CNN) -- The singer Gil Scott Heron once declared that "the revolution will not be televised."

Em Hall, the "D.C. Goodwill Fashionista," transformed Goodwill's  image with a witty blog.

It is, however, going online.

Social activism is being transformed by the Web. Some of the most creative forms of protest and philanthropy are taking place online.

Activists are conducting demonstrations on YouTube, holding virtual fundraisers and using social network sites like Facebook to change the world -- one mouse-click at a time.

These cyber-pioneers include a nonprofit group that uses animated 3-D characters to protest the global shortage of drinking water; a Web company that allows ordinary people to create their own personalized charity; and a Goodwill blogger who reshaped the thrift store's image so thoroughly she was invited to New York Fashion Week.

Ted Hart, co-author of "People to People Fundraising: Social Networking and Web 2.0 for Charities," says the Web has already become a crucial source for nonprofit fundraising. Americans donated $550 million online in 2001, but that number grew to $10.4 billion in 2007, he says.

"It's a new world for a lot of nonprofit organizations," Hart says. "No longer is it good enough to say give us some money. The rules have changed."

Yet some people warn that this new world offers people an excuse to engage in "drive-by activism," superficial forms of cyber-activism that require little commitment.

"The Internet makes it very easy for people to jump in and out of social activism," says Matthew Hale, assistant professor at Seton Hall University's Center for Public Service. "If all the activism is online, it is easier to quit than going to meetings every week."

Real change: online or in-person?

Yet the Web makes it easier for a nonprofit group to reach more people than a meeting ever could, one nonprofit group says.

WaterPartners International is a U.S.-based nonprofit group that created a global campaign to create safe drinking water. Another company may have flown a spokesperson to an impoverished village and hired a film crew to promote their campaign. But WaterPartners says it saved money and time by putting its campaign online -- through animated, virtual characters built from actual people, says Nicole Wickenhauser, a company spokesperson.

Daily Web traffic doubled to WaterPartners' Web site during the campaign and the campaign attracted support from around the globe, Wickenhauser says.

"Real change is most often accomplished by committed individuals working together for a cause they feel passionately about," Wickenhauser says. "Whether they work together virtually or in person is less important."

Web-based activism not only enlarges the reach of social activists, it empowers ordinary people, its advocates say.

In another time, a person had to find a charity to give their time and money to. Now they can create their own charity through Web sites like "YourCause.com."

YourCause.com has been described as a MySpace for do-gooders. The new site allows a person to do everything a charity traditionally does -- raise money and awareness and recruit support -- all from a Web page designed especially for their needs.

Matthew Combs, the site's co-founder, says his site designs Web pages and vets charities for people who don't have the time or expertise to do it themselves.

"It's for people like the 73-year-old woman from New Jersey who created her own page to help out with a rare genetic defect she's suffering from," Combs says. "There's not a lot of 73-year-olds on MySpace. How do we make it easy as possible for them, but credible?"

Social network sites like MySpace are also throwing their support behind Web activists. MySpace has an "Impact" page that connects users with political and charitable causes. YouTube recently launched a "Nonprofits and Activism" channel.

'The reaction was priceless'

One of the most audacious forms of Web-based activism comes courtesy of Em Hall, also known by her blog name, the DC Goodwill Fashionista.

When Goodwill of Greater Washington wanted to expand its customer base, its leaders devised a campaign to reach out to a younger, hipper crowd.

The campaign's centerpiece was Hall. In her witty blog, She dispensed fashion advice, conducted an online virtual fashion show and sold Goodwill clothing on eBay (she once sold an $11.98 suit for $175 on eBay.)

Hall's blog averages 1,500 readers a week and has attracted readers from at least 100 countries, says Brendan Hurley, a Goodwill spokesman. Hall's blog became so popular she was invited in September to Fashion Week, a high-octane fashion show that features the world's most popular designers.

Hall still recalls how Fashion Week officials acted when she told them what clothing label -- Goodwill -- she represented.

"The reaction was priceless," she says. "A look of confusion came across people's faces as they desperately tried to figure out why Goodwill was at Fashion Week."

Despite the possibilities created by the Web, calling people to action still depends on people putting their bodies -- not just their mouse-clicks -- on the line, says Hale, the Seton Hall professor.

"All of the stuff you can do online ultimately has to show up in the real world," Hale says. "I don't see the Internet as a substitute [for social activism] but as a complement to it."

Paul Loeb, author of "The Soul of a Citizen,'' a book that examines the psychology of social activism, also says online activism can be powerful but limited. He tells a story from his book to make his point.

He says a friend took her kids to a protest against nuclear testing in front of the White House during the early 1960s. But she became dejected because only a few people joined her demonstration and then it rained.

Years later, the same woman attended a major march against nuclear testing. Benjamin Spock, the best-selling author and pediatrician who opposed the Vietnam War, was a featured speaker. He told marchers that he was inspired to join the march after seeing a small group of women huddled with their kids in the rain while marching in front of the White House years earlier.

"I thought that if those women were out there," Spock said, "their cause must be really important."

"He's seeing these ragged women in the rain and it touches his heart and he ends up getting changed by that," Loeb says. "That story couldn't exist in the virtual world."

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question: What are activists doing?

answer: are conducting demonstrations on YouTube, holding virtual fundraisers and using social network sites like Facebook to change the world

text: are conducting demonstrations on YouTube, holding virtual fundraisers and using social network sites like Facebook to change the world

question: What did Web unleash?

answer: Social activism is being

text: Social activism is being