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...Reported by Massimo Calabresi and Mark Thompson/Washington, Anthony Davis and Terry McCarthy/Kabul, Tim McGirk/Spin Boldak and Alex Perry/Mazar-i-Sharif
...Alex Perry/Mazar-i-Sharif
...TIME's Alex Perry reports on the humanitarian crisis in northern Afghanistan and the difficult, sometimes painful position of a reporter in a refugee camp. In the camps, says Perry, "I have been asked again and again why the aid isn't coming." For more, go to time.com/perry
Targamadze had become the unsavory symbol of a Shevardnadze government beset by corruption, ineptitude and vested interests, particularly the interests of the Shevardnadze family. "Since '97, [when post-civil war economic recovery started to slow] there has been little progress," explains Alex Rondeli, a political commentator for the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies. "People expected reforms. There was hope - and then everything stopped." Unemployment, unpaid salaries, beggarly pensions, a collapsing infrastructure and severe electricity shortages plagued the long-suffering population. People worried about getting kerosene in the winter or medicines for sick relatives. And they watched, bitterly...
...last two armed Taliban prisoners at Mazar-i-Sharif went out in a blaze of tank shells Tuesday, ending a bloody three-day rebellion that claimed hundreds of lives. At least one was an American; the CIA confirmed Wednesday a report by TIME's Alex Perry that Johnny "Mike" Spann, one of the agency's operatives, was killed early on in the fighting...