Afghanistan Travel

The Taj Mahal attracts above three million visitors a year, all deeply moved by its romance and beauty and the amazing skills of 17th century Mughal craftsmen.
Located on the bank of the Yamuna river, three km south of Agra, the Taj Mahal took 22 years to complete at a cost of trillions of dollars by today’s currency. Twenty thousand men and over 1000 elephants were working on the project, using material from India and other country, as far as China and Afghanistan.
The Taj Mahal was declared a World Heritage site in 1983 and measures are in place to protect it from pollution. Tourist coaches and cars are kept well away from the gate and access is on foot or by electric vehicle.
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By Michael Webster: Investigative

Reporter Aug 25, 2008 at 12:30 PM PDT

The U.S. alliance with Afghanistan and Pakistan has brought huge revenues to drug formers, drug dealers, insurgences and terrorist in the entire region.

According to news reports in the past financial connections between Bush Republicans and Osama bin Laden go way back and the political and economic connections have remained unbroken for 25 years. And what appears to be a “new” alliance with Pakistan is merely a new manifestation of a decades-long partnership in the drug trade.

As reported last year in the Laguna Journal, the drugs raised in Afghanistan finds its way via smuggling routes into markets in both Europe and the United States where they are sold. In turn millions of Read the rest of this entry »