Weakened Taliban In Afghanistan Means Dog Fighting Is Back In Business

Filed in archive World News on December 29, 2008

Although the Taliban is hardly out of business in Afghanistan they no longer rule the roost as they previously did.

The efforts of United States and Coalition forces have broken the Taliban's ability to be everywhere at once in Afghanistan and to force people to obey their Islamic religious laws.

Under Taliban rule dog fighting was illegal but now, without fear of corporal punishment, dog fighting is again a booming big business in Afghanistan.

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