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Afghans seek change elsewhere
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Published: July 6, 2009
While foreign diplomats hope upcoming elections willchangethingsin Afghanistan, many Afghans are voting with their feet.
18,000
Number of Afghans who applied for asylum in Europe, a figure nearly double the 2007 total
$16,000
Cost for a smuggler to take an Afghan out of the country by road (from Iran via Turkey to Greece)
$25,000
What a smuggler charges to guarantee an air journey eased by forged documents or pre-paid bribes to immigration officials
60 percent
Increase in business reported by human smugglers
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