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...civilians by a U.S. warplane Monday is a lesson in the difficulties in rounding up the scattered remnants of the Taliban and al-Qaeda: The enemy has dispersed and taken shelter within the civilian population, in order to wage a guerrilla war against the U.S. and the government in Kabul. If that results in accidents in which U.S. forces kill civilians, the Taliban and al-Qaeda hope to use those incidents to build support for their cause in the local population. Thats the reason Monday's incident makes life difficult for the new government of President Hamid Karzai, whose power...
...Since the Taliban fell, their forces along with al-Qaeda members have engaged in guerrilla actions aimed at harassing U.S. troops and local warlords aligned with the Kabul government. U.S. bases and patrols regularly come under fire; just last weekend 19 people were killed in the town of Spin Boldak after an ammunition depot used by a pro-Kabul warlord exploded under suspicious circumstances...
...frilly sock, a dance, justice twinned with mercy. It has been seven months since the Taliban, with its pitiless version of Islamic rule, fell from power under the pressure of U.S. bombs. Last week 1,575 Afghan delegates representing all regions, all ethnicities and both sexes met in Kabul in a loya jirga, or traditional council, and chose as their new President for the next two years Hamid Karzai, who has served as interim leader since the Taliban collapsed. His administration, so far, is noted less for what it has rebuilt after 23 years of war than for its endurance...
JAMES NACHTWEY, CHRIS MORRIS, JOHN STANMEYER AND ALEXANDRA BOULAT, clockwise from top left, traveled Afghanistan from Kabul to Herat to Bamiyan for this week's photographic epic on a country emerging from the chaos...
...Sudan's unity. The discovery of vast oil reserves along the front line between SPLA and government troops has made Sudan more unstable. The government talked about sharing the oil revenues with all of Sudan; but the rebels suspect that in practice it would not. AFGHANISTAN A Cabinet for Kabul Hamid Karzai was formally sworn in as Afghanistan's head of state in front of a 2,000-member loya jirga, or tribal council, meeting near the capital Kabul. Earlier Karzai announced the key appointments to his new cabinet - after the U.S. special envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, insisted that the loya...