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...Administration carefully calibrated the war to mesh with diplomatic efforts aimed at cobbling together a successor government to the Taliban. But that political alchemy can't be ordered off the shelf. The West must first broker a consensus among Afghanistan's multitude of opposition groups. In Pakistan last week, Colin Powell seemed to get behind Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's proposal that a governing coalition would include Taliban "moderates"--members of the majority Pashtun tribe in the south who could be convinced, or bribed, to peel away from the regime. Rumsfeld signaled that the Pentagon no longer intends to eradicate...
...most Americans, the term moderate Taliban would be an oxymoron, not unlike "middle-of-the-road Nazi"--just a joke in search of a punch line. So when Secretary of State Colin Powell cautiously endorsed Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's view that such members of the repressive Afghan regime might have a role to play in a future coalition government, many people shared the same reaction as the partisans in the conflict. Both the Northern Alliance's Foreign Minister and the Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan declared defiantly, "There's no such thing...
...days before Ze'evi's death, India, in retaliation for a suicide bombing that killed 42 people in Srinagar, launched a bombardment across the Line of Control into Pakistani-held Kashmir. The attack took place on the very day that Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived in Islamabad to pledge American support to the government of Pakistan. Later in the week he pledged an identical degree of support to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's government in New Delhi. Powell would dearly love to persuade India and Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir question peacefully. But intermediaries have been trying...
...killers may have taken refuge with his relatives there. Palestinian gunmen resisted and five were killed. In the end, neither of the two assassins still on the run were found. At least one of them fled to Bethlehem, the Shin Bet now believes. But an angry Secretary of State Colin Powell demanded Israel's immediate withdrawal from Beit Rima and has pressed Sharon not to push into any more Palestinian towns...
...Ignoring Tuesday's calls from Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell for a withdrawal of Israeli troops from Palestinian Authority-controlled areas, Sharon issued a polite "only when we're ready to" reply. Then he launched another raid on a West Bank village near Ramallah, in which 10 Palestinians were reportedly killed...