Word: kandaharis
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...shift risks being seen as a slap in the face to extremely powerful interests in Kabul. In the first days after the Taliban's fall Karzai kept a small band of Pashtun soldiers from his Kandahari home close to him. But tensions with the Tajik-dominated Northern Alliance forces, who fought the Taliban for close to six years and have now assumed control of much of the government, meant the future president had to send his soldiers away. Since then his personal security has been in the hands of the most formidable Northern Alliance commander in Afghanistan, defense minister Mohammed...
...Iranians will pay, too. Maybe more." chimed in another Kandahari as he poured the green tea into tiny porcelain cups. "Besides, the Chinese already have one or two missiles from the last time the Americans tried to kill Osama bin Laden...