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...concern is that the U.S. might have received bad intelligence from a local clan leader out to eliminate a few rivals. A similar situation developed last December, when the U.S. attacked an alleged al-Qaeda convoy. It turned out then that there were no al-Qaeda members present, and Afghans believe a local warlord deliberately misled the U.S. into killing his enemies...
Though violence has tapered off, the conflict has taken on other forms. Mitrovica's largest Serbian Orthodox cemetery, like the church, is located on the Albanian side of town. Every few months, Serbs who want to tend the graves of their loved ones travel in a KFOR armored convoy to the site. After they leave, Father Nojic says, the recently tended graves are defaced by Albanian vandals. As a result, some parishioners have taken to burying their dead in their backyards. The largest ethnic Albanian cemetery is also on the wrong side of town, and it gets even fewer visitors...
...lead the region by the local shura, or council of tribal elders, while the government in Kabul picked Zadran. Kabul's man accused his rivals of being Taliban and al Qaeda sympathizers, a charge they strongly deny. Tensions reached a boiling point last December after U.S. warplanes destroyed a convoy they claimed was carrying al Qaeda fighters, but which local elders insist was carrying tribal leaders to Kabul for Karzai's inauguration. Saifullah supporters accuse Zadran of having deliberately misinformed the U.S. about the nature of the convoy, in order to have his rivals eliminated. Zadran, in turn, vigorously denies...
...then, an oddity. Nearly 12 years have passed since the world watched rapt as a slightly built man carried his grocery bags out into the middle of Beijing's main thoroughfare to face down the convoy of tanks sent to crush the democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. Now people who make similarly "crazy" choi-ces are by and large dismissed as extremists, anachronisms or lunatics irrelevant to China's political development, or as quaint idealists tragically out of step with the progress of their nation. Ian Buruma's Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing (Random House...
...Pentagon officials insist that before U.S. planes attacked the convoy, it had fired surface-to-air missiles at them. But in both cases, there are suspicions that U.S. military targeters may have been deliberately provided with bad intelligence by supporters of a local warlord, Pacha Khan Zadran, who may have been using U.S. firepower to settle scores with his rivals in Paktia, a province he hopes to control as governor. "One competitor may be trying to use our capability for his own benefit," says Rear Admiral John Stufflebeem, deputy director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff...