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26/01/2010

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Last broadcast on Tue, 26 Jan 2010, 21:30 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).

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Fergal Keane talks to Micheal Semple, a former EU official, who had spent most of career working to bring peace to Afghanistan. But in 2007, while working on a plan to integrate moderate Taliban back into society, he found himself expelled from the country on the orders of the president. He was accused of being a spy and a Taliban supporter.

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  1. Tue 26 Jan 2010
    09:00
  2. Tue 26 Jan 2010
    21:30

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