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In today's programme, is President Karzai right to say NATO forces have brought nothing but

suffering to Afghanistan?

The Egyptian army takes flack over its campaign against militants in Sinai.

There's a gun battle in Acapulco as Mexicans try to clean up after two devastating storms.

And we find out why there's a book boom in Iceland. More writers per head, more books

published, more books read than anywhere else in the world.

NATO has reacted angrily to the suggestion by the Afghan President Hamid Karzai that the alliance has failed to bring stability to his country.

A senior NATO official described his words as unfair to all the soldiers who'd lost their lives

there. President Karzai told the BBC the campaign had caused suffering in

Afghanistan despite the loss of thousands of coalition soldiers and the billions spent on

military operations. Mr. Karzai said that he was personally talking to the

Taliban and urging them to contest forthcoming elections.

The British presence in Helmand Province is being steadily reduced.

David Loyne was there when the British arrived in January 2006.

He's there again now assessing what's been achieved since.

In the first British patrol onto the streets of Laskagar,

soldiers wore soft berries proudly pointing out how they were going to do things differently as a

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