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...much alive in Afghanistan, and are right now in the midst of what appears to be a spectacular comeback. Over the past week, more than 100 Afghanis have been killed in clashes between large Taliban formations and government forces. The authority of U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai doesn't extend much beyond the capital; the countryside is in the hands of warlords, opium farmers and jihadis. Some 10,000 U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan to hunt al-Qaeda and its allies, and some 5,000 NATO troops staff International Security Assistance based in the capital. That leaves the Taliban...
...setbacks, but it has also been presented with new growth opportunities. The U.S. invasion of Iraq has enhanced support for al-Qaeda's worldview among many young Muslims, and the vacuum created by the occupation has given them a political and operational rallying point around which they hope to extend that support. Tighter security in the U.S. leaves Americans at home considerably safer from attack now than they were two years ago, but al-Qaeda's objective is not to defeat the U.S. at home; it is to drive the U.S. out of Muslim lands. The standing...
...they can't guarantee the safety of all who come to them with information. And while Russell is concerned about the distribution of lists of citizens cooperating with American troops, the U.S. focus on rounding up the leadership and guarding its own forces from attack means it can't extend much protection to the Iraqis, who may be the key to catching Saddam and ultimately subduing the resistance. And so U.S. soldiers are in a race with the insurgents. "Our response," says Russell, "is to finish off our list before they finish off theirs...
...Graduate School of Education, serves both the Cambridge public school system and Harvard’s teacher-training program. The initiative, presently in its third year of operation, began as a five year commitment. But Summers said Harvard’s support for the program will probably extend past...
...don’t think students should be entitled to any more or any less privacy than anyone else,” Gerstein said. “Let’s extend the rules. If HUPD has police powers and can walk around with guns on hips and can arrest people, they ought to be under same safeguards that all other police are subject...