Word: kabul
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...secure our ports, borders and public transportation and to further any number of domestic projects. Instead, billions of dollars have gone into destroying and then rebuilding Iraq. We could have deployed enough troops in Afghanistan to help the central government take on the warlords and extend its power beyond Kabul. But now the Taliban are making a comeback, and Afghanistan is once again the world leader in opium production. The war in Iraq was not necessary. Saddam Hussein had been contained, and he had nothing to do with the 9/11 terrorists. The Iraq invasion was a tragic blunder. Victor...
...movement even among Iraq's long-oppressed Shi'ites to remove U.S. forces so Iraq can get on with forming an Islamic republic? Why, then, is there sufficient support to fuel an insurgency that shows no signs of waning? Why, then, are nearly all of Afghanistan's provinces outside Kabul effectively ruled by tribal leaders and warlords? Philip K. Lentz Amman, Jordan...
...movement even among Iraq's long-oppressed Shi'ites to remove U.S. forces so Iraq can get on with forming an Islamic republic? Why, then, is there sufficient support to fuel an insurgency that shows no signs of waning? Why, then, are nearly all of Afghanistan 's provinces outside Kabul effectively ruled by tribal leaders and warlords? Philip K. Lentz Amman, Jordan Sharing Journalists' Notes I strongly disagree with the decision made by Norman Pearlstine, Time Inc.'s editor-in-chief, to comply with a federal grand jury's subpoena and surrender the notes and files of White House correspondent...
...SARWAR ZARDAD, 42, former Afghan warlord; to 20 years in a British prison, for torture and hostage taking; in London. In the first trial in Britain for torture committed by a foreigner in another country, Zardad was convicted of human-rights violations while ruling the region of Sarobi outside Kabul from 1992-96. On hearing his sentence, Zardad, who left Afghanistan in 1998 to escape the Taliban and was arrested in 2003 while managing a pizza parlor in London, raised his fist and shouted "Allah is great...
...been tempered by the heavy loss of American life--and the knowledge that more fighting lies ahead. The Taliban's offensive shows no sign of waning and is apparently aimed at sabotaging September's parliamentary elections. U.S. Colonel Don McGraw, director of operations of the Combined Forces Command in Kabul, says that in the chaos of Afghanistan today, it is hard to distinguish among what is the work of the Taliban, drug traffickers and criminal gangs...