Word: kabul
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...will fester into outright opposition toward any American meddling in Afghan affairs. "We do not need the Americans to help us anymore," says Mohammed Farazi, an operational commander with alliance forces in the Dast-e-Qale region. "They should let us fix our country by ourselves." Aid workers from Kabul told TIME that a sense of disillusionment is growing there too with the way the U.S. has handled the war. "People are stunned to see nothing is happening politically," says one, "as the impact on the people is getting worse." Even in northern Afghanistan, anti-Taliban country, locals are incensed...
...American military power has both the Taliban and al-Qaeda on the run. Early last week the Pentagon deployed the AC-130 flying howitzers for a withering cannon assault on Taliban targets in and around Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. Pentagon planners have sliced the country into "engagement zones" near Kabul and Kandahar, green-lighting U.S. pilots to attack any military targets in those designated "kill boxes" at any time of the day. In Kandahar last week the headquarters of the regime were deserted; locals said Taliban officials were hiding in mosques and in civilians' homes...
...Reported by Hannah Beech/Dast-e-Qale, Massimo Calabresi, Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/Washington, Michael Fathers/Tashkent, Helen Gibson/London, Ghulam Hasnain/Kandahar, Terry McCarthy/Islamabad, Tim McGirk/Quetta, Paul Quinn-Judge/on the Kabul front and Rahimullah Yusufzai/Peshawar...
Many armies have marched into AFGHANISTAN, including those led by Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan. But probably none were so bold as the Soviet Army, which took Kabul in a "lightning invasion" late in 1979. Taking the rest of the country would prove more problematic...
...local population relatively small: 14 to 18 million. But some historians argue that the traditional fierceness of the Afghans is a quality that defies measure. In January 1842, after an adventure in Afghanistan, the British ordered the withdrawal of 4,500 soldiers and 12,000 camp followers from Kabul. A week later, the sole survivor of the march, a field surgeon named Brydon, staggered into Jalalabad...The present generation of rebel tribesmen are hardly equipped to repeat such a feat. But, as a former U.S. Ambassador to Kabul, Robert Neumann, has observed, "Foreign invaders have found it easier to march...