Re: jane's on al-qaeda

From: Alejandro Dubrovsky (s328940@student.uq.edu.au)
Date: Mon Sep 17 2001 - 10:23:36 MDT


* CurtAdams@aol.com <CurtAdams@aol.com> [010917 23:02]:
> In a message dated 9/16/01 5:55:24 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de cites Jane's:
>
> > Nearly two million Afghans of the country's
> > population of some four million became refugees in Pakistan, Iran and
> > Central Asia.
>
> Makes me wonder about how well Jane's does its research.
> According to the Hammond's World Atlas, 1992 edition,
> Afghanistan has a population of 15.8 million, not 4.
>

CIA factbook for 2000 says 25.8 million. are these all wild guesses?
Alejandro



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