Word: kabul
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...Only days before Rumsfeld spoke in Kabul, two U.S. soldiers were killed in a daylight attack by a group of Taliban fighters in southeastern Afghanistan, while U.S. outposts come under (mostly inaccurate) fire on an almost daily basis. Spring has seen an escalation in both the number and intensity of operations by the Taliban and its allies - although there may now be less direct involvement by al-Qaeda personnel, the new guerrilla war appears to involve a coordinated command structure combining Taliban fighters, loyalists of the fiercely anti-American warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and other former Mujahedeen commanders alienated from...
...battle-tested, hardened army of veterans waiting for them. All the Northern Alliance needed was leadership, modern communications and the support of devastating American firepower. Within a couple of months, Special Ops troops lead Northern Alliance fighters down from their mountain strongholds to sweep away the Taliban and enter Kabul, a success that has become the paradigm of how Special Forces and Air Power in concert can conquer a country. Now the Special Forces are making a similar attempt in Iraq. What they have created so far is a parody of the Northern Alliance - one that should trouble U.S. leaders...
...recent Afghanistan campaign offered an unhappy precedent of Washington managing the competing claims of rival allies. Mindful of the concerns of Pakistan, the Bush administration had implored the Northern Alliance (traditionally backed by Pakistan's enemies) to stay out of the Afghan capital, Kabul, after the Taliban fled. But in the heat of battle, there was no way of stopping the key U.S. proxy force from pursuing its own agenda against Washington's wishes, helping set the stage for the current unstable equilibrium in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Now, the Kurdish "peshmerga" appear to have copied the Northern Alliance strategy...
...bring about a number of benefits to the region," he said, including "the chance to promote the values that can bring lasting peace." He quoted Ajami's conviction that after liberation, the streets of Baghdad and Basra would "erupt in joy in the same way as the throngs in Kabul greeted the Americans." By last summer, to the surprise of many old critics, Cheney's intellectual journey was complete. William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, the Koran of neoconservative thought, was critical when Bush chose Cheney as a running mate precisely because of his defense...
...Iraq rumbles through its second week, the original war on terror?against remnants of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan?still seethes. U.S. forces opened a new front against pro-Taliban fighters last week, this time just outside Kabul. Operation Desert Lion, as it has been dubbed, is targeting suspected pro-Taliban forces in the snowy mountain range between the capital and the U.S. air base at Bagram, 50 kilometers away. In southern Afghanistan, 600 troops backed by choppers and fighter planes began a second week of scouring villages and mountain caves for rebels. Soldiers have taken nine men into custody...