Word: afghanization
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...Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul had gone to Pakistan for a wedding. Their timing was unfortunate: September 2001. Their itinerary was disastrous: they wandered into Afghanistan and, through a series of wrong turns, were rounded up with Taliban soldiers. In vain they pleaded their innocence to their captors (Afghan, British and U.S.). Soon, as they tell it in this mixture of interviews and re-enactments, they were off to Gitmo for two years of physical, psychological and religious abuse. In 2004 they were released, without charges or apologies...
...military partnership with Pakistan was designed principally to take the fight to al-Qaeda and those members of the Taliban who have fled across the Afghan border. But a Pakistani military official in Islamabad says the Bush Administration is "fully in the know" that U.S. weaponry is also being used against the Baluch insurgency. "This is all part of a bigger battle against troublemakers challenging the state," says the official. A U.S. State Department official told Time that there's nothing in the agreement with Pakistan to prevent Musharraf using U.S. military aid against Baluch insurgents. "When we transfer...
...their part, aid workers here blame the U.S. and other Western military for enflaming anti-Western sentiment, which invariably ends up being vented at the softest targets: the charities. U.S. and NATO convoys regularly plough through the city at high speed, often pushing Afghans off the road with little regard to their safety. "The U.S. use force in the street with their cars. When Americans are in a hurry, they don't care how they drive," said an Afghan U.N. worker who asked to remain anonymous...
...With average Afghans angry about their daily lot, the Taliban are no longer the only anti-government forces that the U.S. has to worry about. It was young men allied to the Taliban?s arch-foes - the heroes of the Northern Alliance who ousted the ultra-Islamic regime - that were major agitators in the Kabul violence. Many of the demonstrators were carrying portraits of ethnic Tajik Afghan resistance hero Ahmad Shah Massoud, assassinated by the Taliban a day before the September 11 attacks...
...Tuesday, police had restored calm to the streets of the Kabul. But as Afghans came out to survey the damage, many were asking where the foreign troops were when they needed them. NATO peacekeepers offered support to the Afghan army and police during the riots, but local authorities thought their presence might spark more violence. "There were no American soldiers on the street. They stood back and let the rioters loot. People say the Russians were better because they did more for the people," said Fahor, a 35-year-old shopkeeper in downtown Kabul. If the Americans can't even...