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Replying to:’War on terror’ set to surpass cost of Second World War4 July 2011’War on terror’ set to surpass cost of Second World War
By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
Thursday, 30 June 2011
The total cost to America of its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, plus the related military operations in Pakistan, is set to exceed $4 trillion – more than three times the sum so far authorised by Congress in the decade since the 9/11 attacks.
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This staggering sum emerges from a new study by academics at the Ivy-league Brown (...)
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