LUXEMBOURG ARMY IN AFGHANISTAN-BELU ISAF 13-CITYSCAPES

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LUXEMBOURG ARMY IN AFGHANISTAN-BELU ISAF 13-CITY SCAPES OF LUXEMBOUG CINDERELLA POSTAL STRIKE ISSUES - COMPLETE SHEETLET OF 8source: / +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ International Security Assistance Force (10) ( ISAF ) is a NATO -led security and development mission in Afghanistan established by the United Nations Security Council on 20 December 2001 as envisaged by the Bonn Agreement . Overview As of June 2008 its troops number around 53,700 from 26 NATO, nine partner and two non-NATO / non-partner countries, including contributions from Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, other European countries, Australia, New Zealand, Azerbaijan, Jordan, Turkey and Singapore. ISAF was initially charged with securing Kabul and surrounding areas from the Taliban , al Qaeda and factional warlords, so as to allow for the establishment of the Afghan Transitional Administration headed by Hamid Karzai . In October 2003, the UN Security Council authorized the expansion of the ISAF mission throughout Afghanistan, and ISAF subsequently expanded the mission in four main stages over the whole of the country. Since 2006, ISAF has been involved in more intensive combat operations in southern Afghanistan, a tendency which continued in 2 007 and 2008. Attacks on ISAF in other parts of Afghanistan are also mounting. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Karl Stig-Erland Larsson (15 August 1954 – 9 November 2004) was a Swedish journalist and writer , born in Skelleftehamn outside Skellefteå . He is best known for writing the Millennium Trilogy of crime novels , which was published posthumously. He was the second best-selling author in the world in 2008, behind Khaled Hosseini . By March 2010, his Millennium trilogy had sold 27 million copies in more than 40 countries.Larsson's first fiction writing efforts were not in crime fiction, but in science fiction. An avid science fiction reader from an early age, he became active in Swedish science fiction fandom around 1971, co-edited with Rune Forsgren his first fanzine , Sfären , in 1972, and attended his first SF convention, SF•72 in Stockholm. Throughout the 1970s, Larsson published around 30 additional fanzine issues, and after his move to Stockholm in 1977, he became active in the Scandinavian SF Society, where he was a board member in 1978 and 1979, and chairman in 1980. In his first fanzines, 1972–1974, he published a handful of early short stories while submitting others to other semi-professional or amateur magazines. He was co-editor or editor of several fanzines , including Sfären and FIJAGH! ; in 1978-1979 he was president of the largest Swedish science fiction fan club , Skandinavisk Förening för Science Fiction (SFSF).In early June, 2010, manuscripts for two such stories, as well as fanzines with one or two others, were noted in the Swedish National Library (to which this material had been donated a few years earlier, mainly by the Alvar Appeltofft Memorial Foundation, which works to further science fiction fandom in Sweden). This discovery of what was called "unknown" works by Larsson caused considerable publicity. [3 ]++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++The Luxembourg Army is the national military of Luxembourg (the Gendarmerie was merged into the Grand Ducal Police in 2000). It was formerly commanded by a colonel, but as of 2008 is commanded by a General ; Luxembourg has no navy (the country is landlocked ) or air force , although it does have aircraft. The army has been an all-volunteer force since 1967. [1 ] It has a current strength of approximately 450 professional soldiers, about 340 enlisted recruits and 100 civilians, and a total budget of $369 million, or 0.9% of GDP. The army is under civilian control . The Commander-in-Chief is the Grand Duke , b... read more

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