Dispatches February 18 2010, Toronto, Zurich, Switzerland, Kabul Afghanistan, Cambodia, London England,

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Dispatches February 18 2010, Toronto, Zurich, Switzerland...
Thu Feb 18 00:00:00 PST 2010

This week: How an obscure political party managed to persuade the Swiss public to ban minarets from mosques. Wait'll you hear what they're working on next. "Operation Moshtarak" is rolling over southern Afghanistan. But has NATO got the target wrong? Pop a pill, kill a tree. We revisit the drug trade that's damaging the forests of southeast Asia. And, the trouble with paradise; how Jamaica's turbulent past still shapes its troubled future. External site

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