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BONN (Germany): Only
three days after it suspended flights to Iraq, international
express courier DHL said Tuesday it was temporarily halting
its service to Afghanistan while it carried out a security
review in the volatile country.
The cargo service, formerly
US-owned but now a unit of Germany's Deutsche Post, said it
would conduct a thorough assessment of security conditions in
the central Asian nation, which has remained unstable despite
the end in 2001 of a 27-year civil war.
DHL has been operating six
flights a week into Afghanistan, mostly bringing in
humanitarian aid supplies. It suspended its flights to Iraq on
November 22 after one of its planes was hit by a
surface-to-air missile as it left Baghdad airport and was
forced to make an emergency landing.
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