Frank Viviano's World View

The Brink Of Disaster In Afghanistan

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A death knoll rings out from churches throughout Italy. The bells toll for six Italian paratroopers, mostly young men in their twenties, victims of a suicide bomb in Kabul. But even louder than the bells are growing calls for Italy's withdrawal from the international peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, which mounted to a deafening chorus within hours of the September 17 attack.

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