Word: kandahar
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...Chaman, on the border with Afghanistan. The border between Pakistan and the Taliban is supposed to be sealed tight. But it's only the refugees, fleeing the U.S. air attacks on Kandahar, who are being stopped by the Pakistanis from getting through. It seems these Afghans have lost faith in the accuracy of our "smart" bombs after one of them crashed through a warehouse belonging to the International Committee for the Red Cross in Kabul, even though a huge red cross was painted on the roof...
Just as the world watched Baghdad and Basra in 1991, today every corner of the globe has its eyes fixed firmly on Kandahar and Kabul...
TIME.com: Has there been a qualitative shift in military operations in Afghanistan in recent days, with reports of the heavy ground-attack AC-130 plane being used over Kandahar on Tuesday, for example...
...Like many young Afghans, Omar was forced to trade education for a warrior's life when the Soviet Union invaded the country in December 1979. In Omar's case, he left a seminary in Kandahar; his poverty-stricken parents had enrolled him there to become a cleric. Fellow mujahedin fighters remember him as a good marksman who disabled many Russian tanks with his RPG-7 rockets. He suffered several injuries in the war, including the loss of his right...
...plunged the nation into a seemingly never-ending civil war. Omar says he formed the Taliban after he was told in a dream that he should save the country. At first the Taliban numbered only 30, but within months it had swelled into a conquering force fanning out of Kandahar to take control of most of Afghanistan. Initially they were welcomed as peacemakers by the war-weary population, but with order largely restored, the Taliban leaders overextended their mandate and lost much popular support. They pursued a costly military campaign to subjugate every rival ethnic and sectarian group, and stopped...