They've got a huge pack and are physical with it, the Boks can front up to any pack in the world and if we do not get a forward platform we will be lost.

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So there would be things like that, where you thought that there was a pretty clear probability that many more lives would be lost, that you would not do.

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Although they signed a regional security plan designed to cover the next five years, some may have wondered, as do other Central Asians, whether the Russians may not be exaggerating the dangers of Islamic insurgency in order to regain lost influence in the region.

ECONOMIST: Central Asia