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...needed a chance to grow up,” Delany says. The unenthusiastic student proved to be a much more attentive soldier, and quickly climbed the ranks. After 9/11, Delany’s battalion became the only anti-terrorist unit and was sent to guard the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. The only attack while Delany was stationed there involved indirect fire, and no one was hurt. After about four months, Delany’s unit was rotated out of Kabul, and he was sent to North Korea. Again, Delany was lucky—he only had to fire...
...Canada's deployment in Afghanistan has dropped to 54%, down from 66% when the first substantive military mission was sent there in February 2002. (An earlier contingent of Canada's secretive special-forces unit, JTF2, arrived in late 2001.) Canada's subsequent participation in the ISAF force based in Kabul was regarded as a piece of shrewd North American gamesmanship: former PM Jean Chr?tien, who had angered Washington with his refusal to participate in the Iraq war, was able to claim that Canada's Afghanistan commitment made it impossible to send Canadian soldiers elsewhere in the Middle East. Since then...
...Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban in 2001 and built a close friendship with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, helping negotiate deals with ethnic and sectarian groups so numerous it would make an Iraqi's head spin. "Zal had definitively been promised that if he agreed to go to Kabul, he would be given a more relaxed and family-friendly assignment thereafter," says Benard. But last June, with the U.S. struggling to contain the insurgency in Iraq, President Bush sent Khalilzad to Baghdad. It made sense: Khalilzad was an early proponent of regime change and had worked with Iraqi exiles...
This is a side of Afghanistan that George W. Bush didn't see last week. Visiting the country for the first time, Bush spent five hours in the capital, Kabul, and hailed Afghanistan's progress since the ouster of the Taliban more than four years ago. The country has made strides: it has an elected government, newly paved roads, more children in school, the appearance of a few shopping centers in Kabul. But the improvements in the lives of many Afghans are tempered by the country's persistent insecurity, which is fueled by a rampant drug trade and a Taliban...
...focusing its energy on trying to stop the big drug traffickers. A Western counternarcotics specialist based in Kabul says he expects to see high-profile arrests in the coming months, in what will be the opening salvo against the drug trade's "command and control." Helmand's beleaguered police will get some relief when approximately 3,300 British troops take over for the much smaller U.S. contingent in Lashkar Gah. The reinforcements can't arrive soon enough. After the fighting on the way to Sangin subsided, about 50 policemen took up posts above a road south of town--the spot...