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...never easily kept--is in the hands of the non-American soldiers in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), whose leadership is about to pass from Turkey to a joint German-Dutch command. Until very recently, the Pentagon seemed anything but keen to see ISAF's mission extended beyond Kabul, to which it is limited. Yet if a new Afghan nation is to be built, its writ will need to run in more places than the capital city...
...thing or two about obsession. Its website (dissidentx.com/minsk/network.html) catalogs sightings of the club's favorite bike around the world: Cuba; Turkey; Norway; even Afghanistan, where Taliban leader Mullah Omar is rumored to have escaped a U.S. bombing raid on the back of a Minsk, known locally as the "Kabul tank." When a Minsk Moto-Velo Zavod company director visited Hanoi in 1999, club members welcomed the bemused businessman with banners, cheers, chilled vodka and a 40-motorcycle escort from the airport. "There was so much dust and exhaust kicked up, he couldn't see a thing," recalls a club...
...army paid for by Britain and the U.S. The announcement came as the forces of rival warlords Amanullah Khan, a Pashtun, and Ismail Khan, a Tajik, pounded each other's positions near Shindand airbase in western Afghanistan. Karzai admitted he will not be able to exercise authority much beyond Kabul until the army is fully formed. INDONESIA Tightening Net Police arrested Ali Ghufron, a.k.a. Mukhlas, the suspected mastermind behind the Bali bombing and a senior commander of the radical group Jemaah Islamiah. At least 12 other people were arrested for the Oct. 12 attack that killed nearly 200 people, most...
...head off a papier-machE dummy. In other scenes, masked fighters abseiling down the walls of the "hotel" with grenades leave no doubt what this is: a training manual for an assault on a resort complex. The video, one of a batch of al-Qaeda tapes found outside Kabul this month, is a chilling reminder of the range of targets al-Qaeda and its proxies like Jemaah Islamiah are preparing to attack. With each new arrest?last week Indonesian investigators nabbed Bali bomber Imam Samudra while the U.S. announced it had apprehended al-Qaeda's Persian Gulf chief...
...AFGHANISTAN: Square one Terrorism lives on. Peacekeepers in Kabul repeatedly stumble on banks of rockets aimed at their bases, the airport or the U.S. embassy. A week ago, Afghan security forces scuppered an attempt to destroy the main power station. American bases are rocketed an average of three times a week; four were recently attacked in one night. Yet another special forces convoy was ambushed on Nov 21. Two cabinet ministers have been assassinated this year, and on Sept. 5 an attempt was made on President Hamid Karzai's life...