Word: badakshan
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...have begun turning their newly acquired firepower on one another. Last month saw two pitched gun battles at the gates of the presidential palace in Kabul?while Karzai was inside working?between different bands of the palace guards: Panshiris loyal to Defense Minister Mohamed Fahim and another group from Badakshan province allied to former President Burhanuddin Rabbani. The latest confidential U.N. report on security, seen by TIME, concludes that a full-fledged "power struggle" is under way. "Those elements that have the most to lose from a stable and democratic order in Afghanistan have begun to react," U.N. undersecretary...
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