BBC debate: Afghanistan - Is it Mission Impossible?

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> STOP THE WAR COALITION
> 7 September 2009
> Email office@stopwar.org.uk
> Tel: 020 7801 2768
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> AFGHANISTAN: IS IT MISSION IMPOSSIBLE?
> Wed 7 Oct 2009 20:00 BBC Radio 4
> Sat 10 Oct 2009 22:15 BBC Radio 4
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> This BBC debate asks on the day the latest poll shows 56 per cent in
> Britain
> oppose the war: What is the war's 'mission'? To close down terrorist
> cells in
> the country, making the UK a safer place? To introduce democracy,
> greater
> freedom for women, more electricity, water?
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> Lindsey German, national convenor of Stop the War, joins MP Eric
> Joyce, former
> EU Special Representative for Afghanistan Francesc Vendrell,
> Brigadier Buster
> Howes from the Ministry of Defence, and counter-insurgency expert Dr
> John
> Mackinlay.
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> AFGHANISTAN: A HUMAN TRAGEDY
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> Roger Lloyd Pack, National Theatre actor and well-known for playing
> Trigger in
> Only Fools and Horses, joins musician Brian Eno, actor Janie Dee,
> George
> Galloway MP and other prominent figures, who will be appearing at an
> event
> marking the eighth anniversary of the Afghanistan invasion, taking
> place
> beneath the tapestry of Picasso's painting Guernica, at the
> Whitechapel Art
> Gallery on Wednesday 7 October from 11am to 12.30pm. All welcome.
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> AFGHANISTAN: A HUMAN TRAGEDY
> EIGHT YEARS ON, TIME TO GO
> CULTURAL, MILITARY AND POLITICAL VOICES SPEAK OUT
> Wednesday 7 October, 11am - 12.30pm
> Whitechapel Art Gallery,77-82 Whitechapel High St, E1
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