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Having secured the peaceful fall of Kandahar, Karzai is heading up to the capital, Kabul. "That's where my focus is now," he says. When he formally takes charge there on Dec. 22, he will find his 30-member Cabinet assailed by regional warlords who were elbowed out in Bonn. Top of the list: Uzbek leader Abdul Rashid Dostum, who controls a big chunk of northern Afghanistan and who has already announced that the Uzbeks will boycott Karzai's government. Dostum is angry that the three most important government portfolios--Defense, Interior and Foreign Affairs--went to his Tajik rivals...
...notable element of Karzai's Cabinet is that it will include two women. Suhaila Seddiqi, a doctor in Kabul, will be the Minister of Public Health. Sima Samar, who works with a nongovernmental organization in Quetta, will be Minister of Women's Affairs, as well as one of Karzai's five deputies...
...Cabinet agreed to leave room in its decision to change its mind later, if Arafat did start to crack down on the terrorists. Still, when it came time to vote on the statement that Arafat's Authority "supports terrorism," the Labor ministers walked out. The Cabinet declared Force 17, one of Arafat's security units, and the Tanzim, the militia wing of his Fatah Party, "terrorist organizations" that "will be acted against accordingly...
Those steps have already begun. Cabinet ministers tell TIME the Israeli army has been ordered to produce a plan for tougher military actions against the Palestinian Authority in case Arafat doesn't play ball. Sources close to Sharon say that the Prime Minister has begun secret talks with the National Religious Party and other right-wing factions that may enter his coalition if Labor quits...
...hawkish Jerusalem Post confirmed some of the Arab papers' worst suspicions. Its commentary reads the cabinet's declaration on Arafat as a prohibition on any further talks between the Palestinian leader and foreign minister Shimon Peres, who insists Arafat is the only Palestinian negotiating partner Israel has. And the paper applauded the military consequences: "Seeing Arafat as an peace partner tied Israel's hands militarily, because it meant that Israel would not push so hard as to topple him - because then there would be no one in the future to conduct diplomatic talks with. By no longer seeing Arafat...