Word: kajaki
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...southern city of Kandahar the only clue to those behind the failed assassination was the dead gunman. Not much was known about him, except that he was a soldier, recruited into the government's ranks only weeks earlier and that he came from the vehemently pro-Taliban district of Kajaki, in neighboring Helmand province. Like thousands of others absorbed into military units or government positions in 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...
...will reach its full capacity with additional U.S.-financed construction. Not only does he expect the dam to fill the irrigation channels of local farmers currently being encouraged to switch from opium to corn and wheat, but it will be capable of generating hydro-electric power, much like Kajaki dam in neighboring Helmand province. "By starting these projects," says Noorzai, "some of the people of this province who are jobless will find work which will obviously be good for the economy...
...fingers fat like German sausages. Over his grey kameez and flowing shirt he wore a neat-cut waistcoat. A bushy black beard tumbled from his face. He talked slowly; the same as he moved. "[Helmand] Governor Haji Shir Mohammed and American soldiers have gone on this road to Kajaki [a town to the north in the Baghran area], " he said...
...other journalists had made it this far north. But word came over the mujahedin radio a small group was back at Kajaki, denied the permission to advance. At least we were well-placed to get to the governor, and the elusive Special Forces, first. After dinner the other journalists and I sat in our vehicles, laptops in our laps, filing stories and pictures to news-hungry editors for as long as our batteries would last. But we were not alone. Even with the car windows wound up, bemused mujahedin crowded around and, for hours, watched us work at our brightly...