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...University of California have found the first solar system that resembles our own. The star, 55 Cancri in the constellation of Cancer, is circled by at least two planets, one similar in size and distance from its star to our own Jupiter. AFGHANISTAN Karzai Keeps Power in A Kabul Compromise Hamid Karzai won a second term as Afghanistan's leader by an overwhelming majority at a U.N.-organized loya jirga, or grand tribal council, in Kabul. Zahir Shah, the country's 87-year-old former King, who was talked of as a presidential candidate, urged the 2,000 delegates (including...
...month ago, members of the U.S.'s First Battalion of the 3rd Special Forces Group were delivered by bus to a bomb-scarred compound outside Kabul. Once Afghanistan's national military academy, the complex was in ruins, strewn with the refuse of war and neglect. Rebuilding the barracks and office blocks would have been challenging enough, but the Americans have taken on a far more arduous task. From the rubble, they are trying to train the nucleus of a new Afghan National Army (ANA)?multiethnic, apolitical, ready and able to protect the nation and its nascent government. And despite...
...vital one. Though numerous armies already exist in Afghanistan, they belong to warlords, not the interim national government in Kabul. There is no single fighting body that operates in the interests of the country. For now, international peacekeepers hold the fort only in Kabul, and eventually they will want to hand over responsibility and pull out. Without a proper army in place, a return to the kind of chaos that gave rise to the Taliban and the feuding warlords is not out of the question. Says a U.S. military source: "Lawless groups like al Qaeda will again come in, fester...
...They told us we'd be getting $250 a month and that training would be in Turkey," he says. Shamsuddin has since discovered he's actually making $30 a month ($50 once he's completed training) and the only bright lights he gets to see once a week are Kabul's. "If I'd known it was going to be like this I probably wouldn't have come," he grumbles. Of the 20 recruits who arrived with him from Faryab, eight have already headed home. Then, lessons and orders have to be translated into several languages. That's frustrating...
...Fahim's support comes from his private troops, not the country's. To him, their needs take precedence, so the ANA must make do with only partially filled orders for gear. "Supporting a new U.S.-trained army is not priority number one," says a senior Western military official in Kabul...