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...have attempted to rally new support along ethnic lines. Their propaganda appeals to Pashtun nationalism, accusing Karzai of being beholden to the Americans and the Tajiks of the Northern Alliance. On that basis, they've sought to make common cause with former adversaries such as the notorious Pashtun warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and local commanders once opposed to the Taliban...
...their Jombesh. The following years raised to national art forms both the alliance of convenience and the stab in the back, and Dostum outperformed the rest. He moved in and out of alliances with Ahmed Shah Massoud, then the Jamiat commander; with Massoud's arch-enemy, the Islamist radical Gulbuddin Hekmatyar; and finally with the ultra-fundamentalist Taliban, enemy of both. Meanwhile, differences of policy and personality at the top of the Jombesh were settled bozkashi-style, as rivals succumbed, one after the other, to helicopter crashes and other dramatic rubouts...
KABUL The battles roiling again among regional warlords have been a headache for interim President HAMID KARZAI. A Pashtun, Karzai has endured political sniping from those left out of the government. Former President BURHANUDDIN RABBANI, a Tajik, does not command forces but has scattered support. So does former Premier GULBUDDIN HEKMATYAR, a Pashtun. In early May, the CIA tried to assassinate Hekmatyar--whom it considers a dangerous enemy of Karzai as well as of the U.S.--but he escaped the missile attack, which killed several supporters...
...their Jombesh. The following years raised to national art forms both the alliance of convenience and the stab in the back, and Dostum outperformed the rest. He moved in and out of alliances with Ahmed Shah Massoud, then the Jamiat commander; with Massoud's arch-enemy, the Islamist radical Gulbuddin Hekmatyar; and finally with the ultra-fundamentalist Taliban, enemy of both. Meanwhile, differences of policy and personality at the top of the Jombesh were settled bozkashi-style, as rivals succumbed, one after the other, to helicopter crashes and other dramatic rubouts...
...hidden hand behind the campaign to destabilize the new order, according to the government, belongs to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the notorious Pashtun mujaheddin commander whose forces killed tens of thousands of people when they shelled Kabul in the early '90s during a power struggle with the forces that today comprise the Northern Alliance. TIME has learned that two days after the rocket attack on the peacekeepers, Afghani police raided a house in west Kabul and arrested eight men in possession of the same Chinese 107mm rockets. "They were Hekmatyar's men and their plan was to hit the main ISAF base...