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  1. Mongolian Military to Send Troops to Afghanistan

    Blog: Yurts, Yaks and other adventures on the Silk Road - 24 July 2009

    Mongolia has proven eager to flex its muscles on the international stage. The army recently announced that it would deploy about 150 soldiers to Afghanistan. About 120 of these will help guard a military base and then around 25 will be training the Afghan army in weapons use and maintenance. Apparently Mongolia is good at this sort of work because they were trained to use Soviet weapons back in the day and the Afghans still use Soviet hardware left over from their war with the USSR. You can read all about it here.

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  2. Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul

    Blog: Yurts, Yaks and other adventures on the Silk Road - 10 December 2008

    loI went to the San Francisco Asian Art Museum last week to check out their temporary exhibit on Afghanistan.

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  3. Afghanistan

    Blog: Joe's Trippin' - 1 November 2008

    *This blog entry is in no way an endorsement for independent travel to Afghanistan!

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