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...Gather Together...
After two decades of fighting, suspicion and betrayal are still the guiding principles for any smart operator. "No alliance ever lasts for long," explains a Dostum aide. That only underscores how difficult it will be for negotiators, who gather this week in Bonn's Hotel Petersberg, to get over years of mistrust. The U.S. proposal is for a loose central government composed of an executive council run by 10 to 20 warlords and other political personages. Such a preservation of the status quo is unlikely to bring stability, even if the Afghans accepted it. The Pashtun suspect the Northern Alliance...
...reality no alliance ever lasts for long," says a Dostum aide. Moreover, a whole generation of Afghans has grown up knowing nothing but conflict. With so much blood spilled, this warrior nation has something of a taste for it. Local English teacher Najib Kuraishi, 20, relates how crowds would gather at public executions held by the Taliban. "Well, it was quite something to see, a line of 10 people being hanged," he says. Asked if he will ever give up his gun, one Northern Alliance commander says, "Never. An Afghan is not a man without...
...will respect the rights of political freedom and religious freedom, and we are deeply committed to that," Ashcroft told ABC?s "This Week." "But for so-called terrorists to gather over themselves some robe of clericism? and claim immunity from being observed, people who hijack a religion and make out of it an implement of war will not be free from our interest...
...Yehuda street is one of Jerusalem's best known and well-traversed thoroughfares, a pedestrian mall where teenagers and soldiers on leave like to gather. But late Saturday night, at approximately 11:40 p.m., two blasts turned it into an abattoir of human limbs, blood and wreckage. "We heard a huge blast and then another one," said one off-duty police official on the scene. "We saw a lot of smoke. People were lying on the street. People were screaming and a lot of people were running from the place of the explosions...