Word: kabul
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...Between 1992 and 1996, several factions of what now makes up the Alliance controlled most of Afghanistan; they spent much of that time and most of the country's resources in internecine fighting. They turned Kabul's streets into a war zone, battling each other with tanks, artillery and air strikes that killed an estimated 10,000 civilians, drove hundreds of thousands from their homes and flattened wide swathes of the city. For Kabulis, the Taliban and the Alliance are both bad news. "Orderly oppression or chaotic violence: it's a tough choice," says Barnett Rubin, Afghanistan expert...
...Foreign Minister, Abdullah Abdullah, has been at pains to assure foreign journalists that women would be included in any Alliance-led cabinet. The group also points to its police academy in the Panjshir Valley as proof that it is determined to prevent a repeat of the lawlessness that characterized Kabul before the Taliban took control. "There is no question of any repetition of the events that took place in Kabul before," promises Mohammad Da'oud Askaria, the director of the academy. Northern Alliance representatives have also been cozying up to former King Mohammed Zahir Shah, who is favored...
...Amin's failure to get anywhere in Washington is felt by Alliance troops on the frontlines near Mazar-i-Sharif and north of Kabul: they are staggering, short of food and ammunition. The Taliban, meanwhile, seems to have no difficulty replenishing munitions destroyed in the American air raids. While Alliance leaders wait for promised U.S. assistance, they are bickering among themselves about what to do next and growing increasingly frustrated with mixed signals from Washington. Last week, Secretary of State Colin Powell said he hoped the Alliance would be able to capture Mazar-i-Sharif, but the support that might...
...this week a U.S. Defense Department spokeswoman acknowledged that several bombs had gone astray, hitting an old people?s home and residential areas of Kabul. According to the Taliban, 100 people died in the raids. Still the forces ranged against Osama bin Laden were no nearer to finding the elusive terrorist leader. Britain?s Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted in a newspaper interview, "I have always thought it unlikely that he will turn up in a court one day." U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld conceded that it was proving "very difficult" to find bin Laden and that the Taliban were...
...Alliance, the coalition of groups opposed to the Taliban regime. A spokesman last week complained that U.S air strikes, carried out by one or two aircraft at a time, were not sufficient to dislodge the Taliban from their entrenched mountain positions. As the opposition pounded Taliban lines north of Kabul, more than 1,000 tribal elders, former mujahedin and other Afghan exiles assembled in Peshawar, Pakistan to discuss the post-Taliban era. The assembly agreed to invite the exiled king, Mohammed Zahir Shah, to play a moderating role and call a loya jirga, a grand council, to shape the country...