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"We are not involving ourselves in internecine politics," insists Douglas Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, "including politics backed by guns." So why did U.S. aircraft recently conduct two bombing missions outside the eastern city of Khost, aimed at militias opposed to Afghanistan's interim leader Hamid Karzai? In...
There may be more to it than that. A Western diplomat in Kabul says intelligence reports indicate that Iranian agents have been seen around Khost--far to the east of where they were thought to have been most active--buying off tribal commanders in a deliberate effort to undermine Karzai...
Army General Tommy R. Franks, commander in chief of the U.S. Central Command, is the Pentagon's beat cop in the world's toughest neighborhood, a slice of potential trouble that includes Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Last week, in his office at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla.--decorated...
FRANKS: Every time I talk to my 4 1/2-year-old granddaughter on the telephone she asks me, "Pooh"--'cuz that's what she calls me--"Pooh, where is Osama bin Laden?" You will be pleased to know that I am so transparent on this issue that I will tell you the...
FRANKS: I guess my personal inclination right now is that he is alive because I have not seen someone deliver me the DNA or deliver me whatever.