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Around Sept. 1, Massoud summoned his top men to his command post in Khoja Bahauddin. The intention was to plan an attack, but Zahir Akbar, one of Massoud's generals, remembers a phone call after which Massoud changed his plans. "He'd been told al-Qaeda and the Pakistanis were deploying five combat units to the front line," says Akbar. Northern Alliance soldiers reported a buildup of Taliban and al-Qaeda forces; there was no big push from the south, although there were a number of skirmishes in the first week in September. "We were puzzled and confused when they...
...Karzai is not alone in taking extra precautions. Presidential spokesman Fazel Akbar told TIME a core of senior ministers has also adopted U.S. bodyguards. But, he says, it's all temporary and should not be seen by defense minister Fahim's supporters as a slight. "The Americans are helping to build the national army and now they are helping with security in the presidential palace; it's all the same thing," he says. Others don't see it that...
...Akbar insists that Afghans shouldn't read too much into this. "This will be only for a short time," he says. "It doesn't mean we want to give all security to the Americans...
...Noorzai says when General Dan K. McNeill, the U.S. commander of operations in Afghanistan, and the American ambassador Robert Finn came to President Hamid Karzai's office they brought with them guarantees of massive assistance. "It's not compensation as such," says Karzai's spokesman Fazel Akbar. "It's support of the nation." This support consisted of $2 million dollars in cash to be given to Karzai. "There was the promise of cash aid but still we did not receive it," notes Akbar. The Minister Noorzai told TIME the money is to be distributed by the president "to the families...
...many Indonesians are skeptical about the chances that the likes of Akbar and Tommy will get impartial trials, there is even deeper cynicism over the likelihood that top military and police bosses will be brought to justice for some of the atrocities they are alleged to have overseen. Even the opening on March 14 of the first in a series of trials against 18 soldiers, civilian officials and militiamen accused of human-rights abuses during East Timor's vote for independence has done little to change that perception. Most of those charged are expendable junior officers, not the generals some...