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Hamid Karzai's interim government, which expressed frustration over the incident, has little control over what happens outside Kabul. The U.S. will have to rely on local commanders like Sherzai, who owes his position to American cash and the squad of Green Berets that has chaperoned him around for two months. But Sherzai and the other warlords running Afghanistan need the support of the locals too. "Gul Agha will be thinking of the future," a former Talib told TIME. "When America goes, he will still be here." Sherzai was no doubt thinking of the future when he let Turabi slip...
...years ago, foreign al-Qaeda fighters turned the village of Mir Bacha Kot outside Kabul into a terrorist-training camp. Some six hours of video were recently found there, according to Afghan intelligence sources. These haunting still images from the videotape show what appear to be Arab, African and European fighters honing their deadly craft--all prelude, it turns out, to the group's much bolder and more horrific attack on Sept...
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...Mullah Mohammed Omar, the movement's spiritual leader, ordering the Buddhas destroyed. The Hazara, the dominant ethnic group here, believe the Taliban had another agenda: to destroy them, too. Of Mongoloid stock, the Hazara have long been the objects of discrimination in Afghanistan, and suffered a terrible massacre in Kabul in 1993 by troops under the late Northern Alliance commander Ahmed Shah Massoud. But they fared even worse under the Taliban. They are Shi'ite Muslims, and therefore heretics to the Taliban. Hazara leaders say the Taliban wanted to exterminate them, and the devastation of the valley lends credence...
...government in Kabul is likely find itself under mounting pressure from its own constituents to restrain U.S. air strikes - Taliban and al Qaeda holdouts will have almost certainly sought shelter amid the civilian population precisely to raise the political costs of continuing to attack them from the air. But Afghanistan's new rulers won't stand in the way of the nation that has facilitated every step of their victory over the Taliban, even if that means absorbing the pain of continued air strikes. Karzai has emphasized that the U.S. is welcome to wage war on his territory until...