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A recently uncovered FBI 'primer' document on interrogation techniques cites manuals from the CIA's dark past.
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Failed policies in the war against drugs have historical roots in the foreign policy objectives of powerful nations.
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The promotion of opium cultivation in Afghanistan to pay for the liberation war against the former Soviet Union left a devastating legacy.

K S Dakshina Murthy
Archive Last Modified: 24 Apr 2003 18:50 GMT
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Al Jazeera's exclusive publishing of a key Guantanamo prison military document lays bare the brutality of force-feeding.
Former military official says poverty and anger in indigenous communities mean conditions for an "insurgency" are ripe.
A four-part series that gives a rare insight into the country on the move, with history in tow.
Series on the Palestinian 'catastrophe' of 1948 that led to dispossession and conflict that still endures.
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Once a bustling haven, Elasha Biyaha has almost become a ghost town as residents flee.
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Two years since the start of the uprising, rebels and Assad's forces remain locked in conflict.
China Rising
A four-part series that gives a rare insight into the country on the move, with history in tow.
Crisis in Bangladesh
Extensive coverage of war crimes tribunals and controversial calls for blasphemy laws.
Al-Nakba
Series on the Palestinian 'catastrophe' of 1948 that led to dispossession and conflict that still endures.
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