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...government officials and blocked the main road linking Kabul to Pakistan. And attacks continue by anonymous groups opposed to the government and the international peacekeepers in Kabul. Infighting at the palace further threatens Karzai's ability to function. "Every day is a balancing act," says one senior European diplomat. "Different tribes, different warlords, the interests of the West, the interests of his own people. Just staying alive is a problem...
...serious peace initiative in 2001, Cheney and Rumsfeld fought them to a standstill. After a while, Powell stopped pushing. Following two trips to the region last year to try to quell the rising violence between Palestinians and Israelis, he gave up. "Colin got tired," says a veteran diplomat who knows all the players, "of going over there with nothing in his briefcase...
...CHUNG, 92, mainland-born founding publisher of Taiwan's China Times who followed Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists to the island,but later stepped afoul of the KMT party line and became a staunch advocate of reunification with China; in Taipei. DIED. MALCOLM KALP, 63, former American diplomat to Iran and one of 52 hostages held by Islamic militants for 444 days beginning in 1979, after his car was hit by a drunk driver; in Stoughton, Massachusetts. The U.S. Embassy's commercial officer in Tehran, Kalp was accused by the kidnappers of being a CIA officer, beaten for three attempted...
...oiled gunrunning network, which uses a fleet of 16 ships and is centered mainly in Cambodia and Thailand. In late February in Thailand's Ranong province, police seized a cache of explosives including tnt and C4 they believe was destined for Sri Lanka. "Acquisitions are still continuing," says one diplomat referring to intelligence reports. Adds Rohan Gunaratna of the Center for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland: "Looking at their procurement picture, by monitoring their shipping and banking networks and their buying officers, we are seeing no change in their clandestine...
...Sayyaf group in the Philippines and to Turkey to supply rebels in Chechnya. "They have the best terrorist shipping network in the world," says Gunaratna. But while the U.S. is trying to portray itself as "bad cop" and "a menacing hard-ass," according to one Western diplomat in Colombo, Prabhakaran last week publicly called their bluff. "We do not think America would intervene," he said dismissively. "We are not Muslims...