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...Muramza, 24, fought the Northern Alliance in and around Kabul. Asked who his commander was, he points to a heavy-breathing bear of a man, who angrily responds, "Why did you tell them that?" Several Tanali men are being held at Sheberghan prison in the north, and several more died in the fighting in Mazar-i-Sharif. One who made it home is Nurzai, 24, who straggles by, carrying a blanket full of long grass over his shoulder, food for the sheep he tends. He says he was captured in Kunduz and, like thousands of other prisoners, stuffed into...
...Kandahar since the fall of the Taliban regime in December, Rehman was not screened for Taliban or terrorist links. "That's what these people are doing, coming into the government through village connections or friends, that way there's no questions being asked," says a senior intelligence official in Kabul...
...Rahman associates for questioning, according to Khalid Pashtoon, a spokesman for Sherzai. "Once the interrogations and investigations are completed," says Pashtoon, "Hekmatyar's name will be mentioned." Some Afghan leaders believe that Hekmatyar's re-emergence has been facilitated by outsiders eager to destabilize the Western-friendly government in Kabul. Possible troublemakers include Iran's hard-line security forces and the pro-Taliban officers in Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), which supported Hekmatyar during the 1980s...
...training a professional Afghan security force that it hopes can bring the whole country under control, but that goal is a long way off. Lately the Bush Administration has been suggesting that it is willing to support an expansion of the 5,000-member international peacekeeping force now policing Kabul so it can be deployed beyond the capital, but Washington has no intention of taking the lead. At the same time, President Bush has sought to reassure allies that the U.S. military will not abandon Afghanistan, even with the hunt for bin Laden slowing and a showdown with Iraq looming...
...survived attempts. Given the country's ethnic rivalries and chronic warlordism, the loss of Karzai--a popular member of the majority Pashtuns--could send Afghanistan reeling back toward the chaos that bin Laden found so hospitable. "Karzai has no real power base of his own," says a diplomat in Kabul. "But as a Pashtun leader who has earned real respect in Afghanistan and internationally, he is close to irreplaceable. His loss would be a catastrophe." With each day, it is one that is getting harder to prevent. --Reported by Anthony Davis/Kabul, Phil Zabriskie/Kandahar and Massimo Calabresi/Washington