Word: kabul
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America's attention may have moved on from Afghanistan to Iraq, but Thursday's violence in Kabul and Kandahar is a stark reminder that its work there is far from over. A car bomb explosion in the capital killed at least 10 people, while a few hours later in Kandahar, President Mohammed Karzai survived an assassination attempt by a shooter in Afghan army uniform. These were hardly isolated incidents: Thursday's bombing was the eighth in the capital in less than a month, and Karzai's deputy, Haji Abdul Qadir, had been assassinated there in July - prompting U.S. personnel...
...local warlords. Many of their leaders escaped capture, too, most notably the one-eyed peasant mystic Mullah Omar - who has eluded capture by the U.S. despite the widespread belief that he remains based in the mountains of his home province. And the shape of the post-Taliban order in Kabul may have paradoxically helped set the stage for a Taliban resurgence...
...primary beneficiary of the Taliban's rapid collapse had been the ethnic-Tajik "Pansjiri" faction of the Northern Alliance, the main U.S. proxy force which seized Kabul last Fall (against Washington's wishes) and became the dominant component of Karzai's government (much to the president's discomfort, although their power on the ground - and the reluctance of the U.S. to challenge it - leaves him little choice). Despite his own Pashtun roots, Karzai's ability to secure support in his heartland is imperiled by the disproportionate Tajik power in Kabul. That suits his Pashtun enemies: Since the Spring, the Taliban...
...Khoshal Khan A is a collection of jaggedly rising fragments of dismembered homes and disrupted lives, a dusty reflection of the twisted steel remains of the World Trade Center. In response to a day of destruction, New York marshalled billions of dollars to rebuild. Kabul has been torn apart for 23 years, and no such resources are at its disposal. The nascent government is struggling to establish a sense of order. The U.N., international donors and NGOs can't cover the nation's staggering needs, and their resources have been stretched by the largest ever return of refugees?1.6 million...
...Khalil's family moved around Afghanistan for 10 years. He fought under Ahmed Shah Massoud against the Taliban. After they fell he came back to Kabul to join his wife and six children, and for two months they have been trying to rebuild. They sleep towards the back of the property, some in a canvas tent too hot to enter during the day, the rest under a tarp. Khalil's wife Shahnaz once worked as a teacher, but she has suffered from severe depression since her father, a civilian, was killed during the earlier Soviet war. She spends much...