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...Afghan province of Uruzgan, north of Kandahar, is brutal territory. Its villages have been racked by decades of war, and the summer heat can reach an inhospitable 120[degrees]. A few weeks ago, Abdul Rahim, a local chieftain in Uruzgan's Deh Rawod district, reclined on a pillow in the shade of a thatch awning and spoke of what it would take to bring hope to this blighted land. It's a simple list, really: a few roads, schools and hospitals. "Rebuilding this country is the way to deny it to al-Qaeda," he told TIME...
...Afghanistan won't be an easy place to set right. In large pockets of the country, military action continues unabated, with all its attendant risks. An American AC-130 gunship last week apparently raked a wedding celebration in the Deh Rawod village of Kakarak, about 70 miles north of Kandahar. Afghan authorities say more than 40 people were killed. President Bush called Afghan President Hamid Karzai to express his sympathy for those who lost loved ones, and the two leaders committed themselves to a full investigation of the tragedy. But the deaths prompted the first anti-American demonstration in Kabul...
...deep wells at twelve district schools, and two high schools in the province's capital, Tarin Kowt, are to be renovated, as well as a small hospital in the dusty district where the raid went wrong. Also, a 50-mile road linking Tarin Kowt with the southern city of Kandahar will be built, reducing the journey from a tortuous five hours to less than 60 minutes. Aid to the area will also include completion of a large bridge spanning one of Uruzgan province's major rivers, a project begun by the Taliban regime but which today is marked only...
...elusiveness, bin Laden probably hasn't strayed far from the region. Huge swaths of southern and eastern Afghanistan are still controlled by militants sympathetic to the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Omar is believed to have taken shelter in the mountains near Kandahar; in May he purportedly gave an interview to a London-based Arab newspaper in which he vowed to defeat the U.S. and claimed bin Laden is alive. The CIA believes bin Laden fled Afghanistan and is holed up in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan, a rugged, desolate region that's nearly impossible to monitor. "It's literally...
...About 600 people have lodged complaints about the incident. "They are responsible for this loss of life and must answer for it," says a Kandahar police official of the American forces. A gathering of Muslim clerics across the border in Quetta, Pakistan, last week condemned the U.S. and called for retribution. The raid?a necessary one by U.S. calculations?has been added by Afghans to the other, larger accidents during the American campaign: the bombing of a wedding party in December in Paktia, the slaughter of 21 friendly Afghan troops in Uruzgan in January, and the killing of three Afghan...