Election and Afghanistan at Crossroads

Warning that Afghanistan could again become the “grand central station of international terrorism,” NATO's new Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen described the critical political and security situation facing the embattled South Asian land. Speaking of the role of the Atlantic Alliance in its largest troop deployment ever outside Europe, Rasmussen warned, “if Afghanistan again becomes a safe haven for terrorists, then we can be hit by terrorists again. This is not only a question about the United States, Europe could be hit as well.”