Word: afghanization
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...afraid of the foreigners. If they try to harm you, I will stand in front of them.' HAMID KARZAI, Afghan President, saying he would personally protect Taliban and other militant leaders from U.S. and NATO troops if they agreed to participate in peace talks...
...Pakistan TAKING FLIGHT Afghan workers are preparing shelters for the estimated 20,000 Pakistanis who have fled into eastern Afghanistan amid a military crackdown in the Bajaur region, where government troops are clashing with Taliban and al-Qaeda forces. Pakistani officials say coalition troops battling the Taliban on the Afghan side of the border must do more to stop the flow of rebels into Bajaur...
...young sector is not exactly crowded. Two companies - Afghan Logistics and Tours and Great Game Travel - run most of the tours in the country, drawing and redrawing the map - on a daily basis - of where travel is advisable and where it's not. "Sometimes the whole population knows something and the tourist doesn't know," says Andre Mann, the American director of Great Game Travel who arrived in Afghanistan over three years ago. "The local officials, security networks and international organizations we have relationships with all give us a heads-up if they see a shift in tactics...
...reshuffling comes at a sensitive time for Pakistan's half-million-strong and nuclear-armed military. In the Bajaur tribal agency along the Afghan border and in the Swat Valley, it is locked in fierce and enervating operations against the Pakistan Taliban. At the same time, the army's relations with its sponsors in Washington have sunk to a fresh low after the ISI was accused of aiding Taliban militants, and the ensuing breakdown in communication between the U.S. and Pakistan saw a flurry of unauthorized American air strikes that targeted militants in the tribal areas. U.S. special operations forces...
...Afghanistan, David McKiernan, said, "Do I believe there has been some complicity on the part of organizations such as the [Inter-Services Intelligence] over time in Pakistan? I believe there has been." In fact, it's precisely the Pakistani government's unwillingness to go after militants along the Pakistan-Afghan border that has prompted the Bush Administration to authorize raids by U.S. commandos into Pakistani territory...