Damned by Riches: How Afghanistan’s Mineral Wealth Undermines NATO Mission

It is like something out of a movie: deep in the archives of a war torn country a team of intrepid scientists discovers forgotten maps leading to buried treasure. Fantastical as it seems, such a scene played out in 2004 when American geologists found a cache of charts in the Afghan Geological Survey’s library dating from the days of Soviet occupation. Damned by Riches: How Afghanistan’s Mineral Wealth Undermines NATO Mission - Nathan William Meyer
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