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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 2002
Page
15
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The message warns against ordering a 90 day supply unless more than 50 pounds need shedding. It includes FDA disclaimer language and credits AVS Marketing from 2001.
The article notes growing coalition involvement led by Gen. Tommy Franks at MacDill Air Force Base with 25 nations represented. Canada plans 750 combat troops to Kandahar mid February joining the 101st Airborne, while Britain fields about 4,000 troops and leads the Kabul ISAF mission. Germany contributes peacekeeping soldiers and ships, and Jordan runs a field hospital in Mazar-e-Sharif.
Secretary of State Colin Powell, during a refueling stop in Washington on the way home from a six day, five country trip, said rebuilding Afghanistan will be harder than the military effort to defeat terrorism. He announced 296 million dollars in aid at a donor conference in Japan and cited 600,000 to 700,000 weapons reportedly held by Afghan citizens.
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