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- Aussi l'aise discuter accroupi sur un tapis que dans
un salon Washington ou Londres, Hamid Karza a une large connaissance du
monde occidental. Aprs Kaboul et l'Inde o il a tudi le droit, il a parfait
sa formation aux Etats-Unis o il fut un moment consultant de l'entreprise
ptrolire amricaine Unocal, quand celle-ci tudiait la construction d'un
oloduc en Afghanistan.
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- "(...) Hamid Karzai, who is as comfortable discussing
sitting on a carpet as in a Washinton or London "salon", has
a profound knowledge of the western world. After Kaboul and India, where
he has studied law, he completed his learnings [apprenticeship ?] in the
USA, where he acted, for a while, as a consultant for the American oil
company Unocal, at the time it was considering building a pipeline in Afghanistan.
(...)"
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