Word: kabul
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...mujahedeen commander against the Soviets in the 1980s. But while the father had backed the government of former President Burhanuddin Rabbani before being killed by political rivals in a 1993 car bombing, the young Mansoor joined the Taliban and served as deputy commander of the garrison at Kargha near Kabul until last November. Following the movement's collapse, Mansoor returned home and reactivated the base at Shahi Kot, which had served his father so well against the Soviets...
...tribal elders sent by Taj Mohammed Wardak, the new governor of Paktia, the province where Shahi Kot is located. Wardak wanted Mansoor to leave his mountain base, expel his al-Qaeda guests (the governor believes they number about 60) and declare support for Hamid Karzai's interim government in Kabul. But those talks broke down, and U.S.-led coalition forces launched their attack on the mountain fortress last Friday...
Karzai’s father, Abdul Ahad Karzai, was the speaker of the Afghan parliament when she was growing up in Kabul...
...much of the job still to be completed. The key is to round up the remaining al-Qaeda members still at large in Afghanistan, a task that will be difficult to complete until the new government of Hamid Karzai is able to extend its authority beyond the capital of Kabul. The U.S. speaks optimistically of Karzai building an Afghan national army, but power struggles between local warlords threaten to scuttle that plan and plunge the battered country into a new season of chaos...
...equals, and they in turn were inspired by his quiet determination. Then one day I heard that Karzai had hopped a motorcycle, smuggled himself into southern Afghanistan and started his dangerous--but ultimately successful--campaign against the Taliban, all without his having to fire a shot. Today, in his Kabul palace, Karzai says he will stay on as leader if asked by the loya jirga tribal assembly convening in June. Otherwise, he joked, "Maybe I'll end up working in my brother's restaurant in Baltimore...