Word: kandahar
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...threat is aimed at another pro-Western Afghan, Hamad Karzai, a supporter of exiled King Mohammed Zahir Shah. Karzai has been on the run in Afghanistan for weeks, dodging Taliban bullets in the Uruzgan mountains north of Kandahar. Urbane, well educated and hailing from an aristocratic Pashtun family, Karzai is Washington's best--and perhaps only--chance to win over the southern tribes. If he can stay alive...
...part of the team that developed the country's small arsenal of atom bombs. According to a lot of people, he also may be a little flaky. The fact that since 1998, so loose a nuclear cannon has been traveling in and out of the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, where he has helped the Afghans construct a complex of buildings he describes as flour mills, has a lot of people worried...
...Despite their paranoid aversion to TV images, the Taliban are learning fast. Last week they admitted several journalists to witness bomb damage in and around Kandahar. More will follow. The world?s only military superpower has failed to embrace the new tyranny of real-time information transparency in war. Low-cost video cameras and mobile phones can nimbly upstage billion-dollar information-processing systems and hierarchical command-and-control structures...
...hunting down the Taliban in the caves and redoubts of southern Afghanistan, where the Pentagon believes Osama bin Laden and the Taliban's leaders have taken refuge. Even if they continue to roll back the Taliban in the north, the Afghan rebels won't be of much help in Kandahar. "The Northern Alliance can never control the whole of Afghanistan," says Dostum's aide. "We have no following in the south." That means only a U.S.-led force--made up of special-ops commandos, conventional troops or both--will be able to finish the job. To succeed, these soldiers will...
...forces appear to have greater freedom of movement than ever in Afghanistan. Unconfirmed reports Monday suggested American helicopter gunships had attacked a hotel commandeered by the Taliban in downtown Kabul, and the U.S. confirmed that its commandos had gone into an area near Kandahar to rescue resistance leader Hamid Karzai, who had been trying to rally local chieftains to the anti-Taliban cause. The fact that U.S. personnel could move into the Taliban's heartland to collect a resistance leader was cause for confidence; less so, though, the fact that Karzai needed rescuing in the first place. Pashtun warlords have...