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That theory is pure fancy, of course. But it does precisely describe the delicate state of Afghanistan's future. "Finding Osama would be a disaster for Afghanistan," says a senior Western political adviser in Kabul. "Karzai needs to keep the various commanders in check and consolidate the new government. And...
Washington is hardly unaware of the potential for civil war. The CIA has warned of the possibility, and General Franks cites a revealing anecdote from the day Karzai was inaugurated as interim government chairman last December: "One of the opposition group leaders, with whom we had worked earlier in the...
General Tommy Franks, commander of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan, calls the recent assault on Taliban and al-Qaeda remnants in the Shah-i-Kot Valley an "unqualified and absolute success." But he concedes that pockets of resistance remain and promises to go after them unceasingly. The British last week...
As al-Qaeda leaders huddled in their caves in the Shah-i-Kot mountains last week, enduring allied bombs, howling snowstorms and temperatures that fell to 15[degrees]F, their counterparts were prosecuting the war from sunny Tampa, Fla. High-tech warfare allows General Tommy Franks and his Central Command...
Pentagon officials have conceded error only in the Jan. 24 case, grumbling that after 18,000 bombs and missiles have been dropped on Afghanistan--with a declared success rate of about 85%--no one should be surprised when innocents are hurt or killed. Army general Tommy Franks, who is running...