Word: kandahar
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...traffic goes both ways. On the road to Kandahar, teenagers from as far away as Karachi are flocking to join the fight against America. "Why do you want to enter this hell?" warned a Taliban soldier at a roadblock. Who knows? Because of religious conviction? Because it's home? Or because, like young men before them for a thousand years, the youths felt, at the prospect of war, a summoning up of the blood. There'll be plenty of that before we're through...
...Quetta, Pakistan, seeking an audience with a man they expect will soon return from a five-year exile. His contacts and prominence--Shirzai heads an ancient and powerful clan--make him a strong contender to replace the local Taliban leaders if they fall in the southern region of Kandahar where he was once governor...
...Quetta, Pakistan, seeking an audience with a man they expect will soon return from a five-year exile. His contacts and prominence?Shirzai heads an ancient and powerful clan?make him a strong contender to replace the local Taliban leaders if they fall in the southern region of Kandahar where he was once governor...
...pilot who would identify himself only as "Woodstock," "didn't encounter any threat that we weren't prepared to deal with and nothing that put us unduly at risk." Navy Lieut. Commander "Chris," who piloted an F-18 from the U.S.S. Enterprise on a six-hour mission to Kandahar, said, "The amount of resistance we've seen in this theater is significantly less than you would see in Iraq, significantly less than we saw in Kosovo...
...Islam itself, but neither is it just a handful of desperate nihilists, cowering in Afghan caves. If there is anything that the events of recent weeks have demonstrated, it is that we are at war with an ideology—one with deeper global roots, stretching from Cairo to Kandahar, Malaysia to Mogadishu, than any of us had realized...