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...atrocities perpetrated against the Afghani people or elsewhere should be tried for crimes against humanity by an international tribunal. Any al Qaeda prisoners—as well as al Qaeda members arrested anywhere in the world—who are connected to terrorist actions should be tried in civilian courts for their actions...
...Azhar joined hands with a hard-line Sunni sectarian group and broke away from Harkat-ul-Mujahideen to found the even more fanatical Jaish-e-Muhammad. His new group was the first to favor suicide attacks in India. It has been responsible for grenade and car-bomb assaults on civilian targets, and took responsibility for a devastating bomb blast at the state legislature in Indian-administered Kashmir last October...
...government in Kabul is likely find itself under mounting pressure from its own constituents to restrain U.S. air strikes - Taliban and al Qaeda holdouts will have almost certainly sought shelter amid the civilian population precisely to raise the political costs of continuing to attack them from the air. But Afghanistan's new rulers won't stand in the way of the nation that has facilitated every step of their victory over the Taliban, even if that means absorbing the pain of continued air strikes. Karzai has emphasized that the U.S. is welcome to wage war on his territory until...
Born in Cleveland, Wagner was drafted into the Army during his sophomore year as an undergraduate at Harvard. He served in Asia during the Second World War and then as a civilian adviser to the American military government in Korea from 1946 to 1948. He helped South Korea make the transition back to independence after existing under Japanese control for 35 years...
...issue of Afghan casualties has begun to erupt in the European press, where columnists have been citing figures compiled by Marc Herold, an economics professor at the University of New Hampshire. Drawing mostly on world-press reports of questionable reliability, Herold contends that 3,767 Afghan civilians had died by Dec. 6-more than were killed in the U.S. on Sept. 11. The Pentagon insists that civilian casualties are the lowest in the history of war. The Afghan government has no way to track those casualties. Human-rights groups say they have been unable to make any worthwhile assessment...