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DAMAGE REPORT U.N. investigators said U.S. air strikes on an Afghan village killed some 90 civilians, including 60 children. The report fueled Afghan frustration over the high civilian death toll and prompted a U.S. investigation...
Taliban fighters are representatives of an ousted legal government. They are defenders, not insurgents. There is no way forward unless and until the Taliban are accepted as a real part of Afghan life. Louis Anderson, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
...triathlon - all of which were inaugurated as female Olympic sports only as recently as 2000. (In the first modern Olympics in 1896, women were excluded altogether.) But today, with Title IX - the education amendment that allocates funds equally between genders - an entrenched part of American schools, and even Afghan and Omani women competing in the 100m dash, does it make sense to keep a pair of women-only sports in the Olympics...
...world. No longer. Afghanistan, which was the center of extremist pilgrimage when it was ruled by the Taliban, has retaken that position, according to European intelligence sources. "The degree to which Islamist extremists around the world have dropped their previous obsession with Iraq and now focus on the Afghan-Pakistan area has been astounding," says one French counter-terrorism official. "No one recruiting for or seeking to join jihadist fighting in Europe are trying to get to Iraq: it's all Afghanistan now," he reports "No one raising money for jihad is directing funds to Iraq, either. The Afghan-Pakistan...
Funding and potential fighters appear to be searching for newer ways into Afghanistan - particularly via Turkey "where they suddenly vanish," says the counter-terror official, who was recently involved in busting an Afghan-supporting finance network spanning France, the Netherlands, and Germany. Uzbekistan - whose radical groups also receive funding collected in Europe - may also be becoming a new transit point for Afghan-bound radicals. And with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf stepping down, "there's real concern the already wild and lawless border region will become a virtual Taliban-al Qaeda colony...