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...Quiz: Who is the leader of Afghanistan? If you said, “Hamid Karzai,” you are wrong. Although Karzai enjoys the title “chairman” and mingles with other heads of state, he is nothing more than the glorified mayor of Kabul. Even a few miles beyond the capital, Afghanistan is ruled by an assortment of war heroes, freedom fighters, thugs, rapists and war criminals euphemistically known as “warlords...
Hekmatyar and Dostum make Mullah Omar look like a Girl Scout. While he was prime minister of Afghanistan in a coalition government, Hekmatyar systematically shelled residential neighborhoods in Kabul. Dostum is well known in the region for torturing enemies, and journalists are already alleging that Dostum has been ethnically cleansing ethnic Pashtuns from his domain of Mazar-i-Sharif...
...Pahlavi's stature has increased in Tehran and Washington. Many Iranians reacted enviously to the fall of the Taliban and the liberation of Afghan life--especially for women. Some are impressed by the rehabilitation of Mohammed Zahir Shah, the exiled Afghan King, who plans to return soon to Kabul for the first time in 29 years. In a TV broadcast last October, Pahlavi urged Iranians to demonstrate peacefully after their country's qualifying games for the World Cup. But young people poured into the streets, chanting anti-regime slogans in a fierce show of discontent. In Tehran, taxi drivers...
...Afghanistan getting ready for peace? You might think so, judging by how the price of weapons is plummeting on the streets of Bagram, outside Kabul. The town, which encompasses the base where U.S. and coalition forces are ensconced, has become a favorite of small-time weapons dealers peddling knives, Kalashnikovs and rocket-propelled grenades. One dealer tried to interest a Time reporter in a Kalashnikov for the bargain price of $200, with 100 rounds thrown in "to close the sale." The man, who identified himself only as Abdul, said he wouldn't need his weapons anymore. "Peace has come...
...Afghanistan getting ready for peace? You might think so, judging by how the price of weapons is plummeting on the streets of Bagram, outside Kabul. The town, which encompasses the base where U.S. and coalition forces are ensconced, has become a favorite of small-time weapons dealers peddling knives, Kalashnikovs and rocket-propelled grenades. One dealer tried to interest a TIME reporter in a Kalashnikov for the bargain price of $200, with 100 rounds thrown in "to close the sale." The man, who identified himself only as Abdul, said he wouldn't need his weapons anymore. "Peace has come...