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...police and military officers in Kandahar detained 17 Rahman associates for questioning, according to Khalid Pashtoon, a spokesman for Sherzai. "Once the interrogations and investigations are completed," says Pashtoon, "Hekmatyar's name will be mentioned." Some Afghan leaders believe that Hekmatyar's re-emergence has been facilitated by outsiders eager to destabilize the Western-friendly government in Kabul. Possible troublemakers include Iran's hard-line security forces and the pro-Taliban officers in Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), which supported Hekmatyar during the 1980s...
...Singapore airport won't fly. It had aquariums at the curb to remind people of sea level and a huge indoor aviary at the departure gate to evoke the wonder of flight. He has also been inundated with offers to design more Broadway-show sets, which he's less eager to do. He's looking for something new: opera, maybe...
While the Crimson came up short this week, the closeness of this week’s game left the team eager for more of a challenge next week. In that sense, the trip to Washington to play the No. 16 Huskies and No. 17 Portland could not have come at a better time...
...been just over a year since the World Trade Center towers crumbled to the ground, but the cultural aftershocks continue to reverberate around the world. Foreign students, eager to attend American universities, find themselves barred from entering the country as the academic year begins. The threat of further terrorist attacks has meant increasingly stringent background checks delaying the approval of student visas in 26 countries from Malaysia to Saudi Arabia...
...Muslim population. Those alliances are still paying political dividends today. But now that era may be coming to an end. Seven years after U.S. warplanes first roared over the mountains of central Bosnia, America is gradually, deliberately relinquishing its leadership role in the former Yugoslavia. In its place, eager to flex its own foreign policy muscles, the European Union is reasserting control. The consequences for the region depend in part on how quickly and completely the U.S. decides to leave and how soon Europe can overcome its historical rivalries to speak with one voice. Balkan leaders who waited in vain...