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...plan was to hit the main ISAF base and kill," says a senior police source. The arrests come two weeks after police detained more than 300 people suspected of plotting to kill Karzai and launch a campaign of "terror, abduction and sabotage." A Karzai adviser says that the alleged coup plotters were carrying documents from Hekmatyar's Hizb-I-Islami group, which it alleges is now working with remnants of al-Qaeda. The government also believes Hekmatyar was also behind last week's attempt to assassinate Defense Minister Mohamed Fahim in Jalalabad. "The demarcation line is no longer between ethnic...
...Evidence linking Hekmatyar to the attacks has yet to be produced and some Western diplomats dismiss the "coup plot" as a government attempt to sideline rivals ahead of the June 22 'loya jirga,' a national assembly that will choose an interim government to rule for the next two years. Even if the Hekmatyar threat is exaggerated, Karzai must still deal with internal splits. "The cabinet is deeply divided," says the interim leader's adviser. "But that's the government given to him by the U.N. in Bonn and he has to work with it." A power struggle between Defense Minister...
...Final Fantasy II for Super Nintendo. The characters were represented by icons 16 pixels wide, with a special icon for every possible combination of poisoned, miniaturized, or turned into a frog. (In this game, turning your opponent into a poisoned, miniaturized frog was a major tactical coup.) Dialogue, like the martyrs’ fateful incantation, “Stone!”, appeared in poorly translated English in little blue text boxes...
...authority at home, respect abroad and the gold card of 21st century international politics?U.S. military backing. But there's one thing that Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has never had: an election. For a man who seized power two and a half years ago in a military coup, elections are dangerous. You can never be quite sure how they'll turn...
...RANDALL KENNEDY'S COUP...