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...Afghanistan still has little to offer its people. This, perhaps more than loyalty to the former regime, could nurture existing threats. Almost everyone interviewed cited one reason or more that fighting could start again: if promises go unfulfilled, if more civilians are killed like those who died in nearby Deh Rawod when American planes bombed a wedding party in July, if Karzai acts like an American puppet, if Islamic law is not part of the new constitution, if there is a crackdown on poppy farming. With soldiering still the most viable career option, these men will be available when someone...
...Pentagon last week denied reports that the July 1 air operation that killed up to 48 civilians at a wedding party in the Deh Rawod district in southern Uruzgan province was a botched attempt to kill the Taliban leader. But a senior military official maintains that whatever the Pentagon has said subsequently, Omar was the original target: "They thought they had him." Omar is originally from Deh Rawod, and U.S. Army spokesman Major Gary Tallman told reporters in Afghanistan that "multiple intelligence sources" suggested he was in the area at the time of the U.S. raid. The bride...
...Afghanistan won't be an easy place to set right. In large pockets of the country, military action continues unabated, with all its attendant risks. An American AC-130 gunship last week apparently raked a wedding celebration in the Deh Rawod village of Kakarak, about 70 miles north of Kandahar. Afghan authorities say more than 40 people were killed. President Bush called Afghan President Hamid Karzai to express his sympathy for those who lost loved ones, and the two leaders committed themselves to a full investigation of the tragedy. But the deaths prompted the first anti-American demonstration in Kabul...
There are, no doubt, plenty of people in Uruzgan who wish the Americans ill. Pentagon sources contend that in the past month American forces have been directly fired upon three times by Afghans who later claimed they had been "celebrating." Around Deh Rawod, says Marine Lieut. General Gregory Newbold, director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "there is enormous sympathy for the Taliban and al-Qaeda." Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban leader, was raised in the region, as were two of his top lieutenants, Mullah Dadullah and Mullah Bradar. All three are still at large. The Kabul government...
...around 2 a.m. on July 1, an allied ground force of 300 to 400 troops, together with air support, was engaged in a series of operations throughout the Deh Rawod region. A B-52 bomber pounded a cave and tunnel complex; special forces on the ground discovered a weapons cache with thousands of rounds of armor-piercing ammunition. Allied sources in Afghanistan say that ground forces saw a mortar being covered with a tarpaulin in Kakarak and that later they were fired upon as they approached the village. At that point the soldiers called in support from...