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...what President George W. Bush called "friendly troops." By the week's end a U.S. spokesman announced that a small number of special forces were already on the ground in southern Afghanistan. The Taliban defiantly announced that they are ready and eager to avenge the air raids, and their envoy to Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef, said they would not hand over bin Laden...
Shirzai, a robust, middle-aged man, has been currying favor himself, furiously networking, Afghan-style. On Sept. 15, he dispatched an envoy to the newly arrived U.S. ambassador in Pakistan, Wendy Chamberlin, in hopes of gaining American backing. And last month he sent an envoy to Rome to pay respects to the aged, deposed Afghan King, Mohammed Zahir Shah, whom the U.S. has tapped as a symbolic rallying figure for post-Taliban Afghanistan. But if Shirzai is following the age-old Afghan custom of building bridges, he is also following its equally venerable tradition of nursing grudges. His clan...
Much of the responsibility for postwar Afghanistan is expected to fall on the U.N. and its newly named envoy to Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi. Bush, the Europeans, the Arab nations and Afghanistan's neighbors now say the international body should take the lead in postwar Afghanistan...
...Shirzai, a robust, middle-aged man, has been currying favor himself, furiously networking, Afghan-style. On Sept. 15, he dispatched an envoy to the newly arrived U.S. ambassador in Pakistan, Wendy Chamberlin, in hopes of gaining American backing. And last month he sent an envoy to Rome to pay respects to the aged, deposed Afghan King, Mohammed Zahir Shah, whom the U.S. has tapped as a symbolic rallying figure for post-Taliban Afghanistan. But if Shirzai is following the age-old Afghan custom of building bridges, he is also following its equally venerable tradition of nursing grudges. His clan...
...Much of the responsibility for postwar Afghanistan is expected to fall on the U.N. and its newly named envoy to Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi. Bush, the Europeans, the Arab nations and Afghanistan's neighbors now say the international body should take the lead in postwar Afghanistan...