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...Khosal says his father and a relative drove toward Jan's house in a police vehicle, accompanied by about 15 or 20 other men. "We parked the car about 500 m away, then walked toward the house." Sensing something amiss, "my father called to [Jan] that the Taliban were around the house," Khosal says. "Then there was shooting. My father got two bullets in the throat from the front side, and then the elders who were with us came and dragged him away." When Khosal picked up his relative, who had also been shot, "I was shot...
...Khosal said his father's men fired back at their assailants, who were only about 20 m away. The elders rushed Khan to hospital but he was dead on arrival. At first, Khosal says, the locals "were thinking it was the Taliban who had done the shooting. Then they heard someone calling out. It was the Australians' interpreter, who was surprised and was asking, Who are you?" When Khan's men replied, "We are police," Khosal says, they were told to lay down their weapons. Khosal says the Australian troops offered no medical assistance to the wounded Afghans...
...Khosal's brother Dawood says local tribes want Australian troops to quit the area, but he does not believe President Karzai has the power to order them out. In a meeting in Kabul, he says, Karzai offered to continue paying his father's salary every month. The Australian government says it is negotiating to pay compensation to Khan's family. ADF head Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston said, "We deeply regret [Khan's] death. We are working very closely with [Khan's] tribe to ensure that this has no far-reaching negative effects on our operations in the province...
Partly, of course, this is a response to Obama's unusual biography: his African Muslim father, his foreign-sounding name, his childhood outside the continental U.S. But it's also a measure of the times. The racial wedge issues of the 1970s and '80s--busing, crime, welfare, affirmative action--have all but disappeared. When pollsters compile lists of Americans' top concerns, those barely register. What is on the rise is anxiety about globalization. Support for unregulated free trade has cratered on the Democratic left. Hostility to illegal immigration is red hot on the Republican right. And beyond the partisan divide...
...democracy" conceived by our Founding Fathers was limited; they only included white males and landowners. J.L., however, was the founding father of modern "King" democracy. It gives hope that no one--be they people of color, women or 18-year-olds--be limited by race, gender, age or religion...