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BAMIYAN With about 10,000 troops at his command, Hazara Shi'ite KARIM KHALILI holds sway over Bamiyan province, which has a Hazara majority. Unlike other leading warlords, he has little in the way of armor or heavy weapons. His prospects are limited in Afghanistan, whose population is predominantly Sunni...
...next and growing increasingly frustrated with mixed signals from Washington. Last week, Secretary of State Colin Powell said he hoped the Alliance would be able to capture Mazar-i-Sharif, but the support that might have increased the odds in favor of Dostum and Atta never materialized. Yusto Khalili, Northern Alliance commander and member of Afghanistan's war council, south of Dostum at Yakawland, said, "We do not know how long the war will continue. It all depends on American help and the world community. If they give us more help, then the war will finish sooner. Nobody is helping...
...deliberating for nine hours over two days, a jury in the Kevorkian assisted suicide case returned a verdict of not guilty on two counts of assisted suicide in the deaths of two terminally ill patients. Kevorkian was charged with assisting the suicides of Merian Frederick, 72 and Dr. Ali Khalili, 61. Frederick had Lou Gehrig's disease, and Khalili was dying of bone cancer. The two ended their lives inhaling carbon monoxide through a mask in a Detroit apartment provided by controversial doctor. Kevorkian's second acquittal in two years saved him from possible sentences of up to four years...
...bail after having been charged in two deaths under Michigan's law banning assisted suicides, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the controversial right-to-die crusader, attended the suicide of Dr. Ali Khalili, 61, a rehabilitation physician suffering from extreme pain caused by bone cancer. It was the 20th suicide that Kevorkian had attended since...
...battlefield at Kunar, the once dreaded Mi-24 Hind helicopter gunships were taken almost entirely out of the fighting by the Stingers. They flew only a few sorties under cover of night, when Stingers are difficult to aim. Said mujahedin Leader Massood Khalili of the helicopters' decline: "For nine years the dragon ruled the skies over Afghanistan. Now the dragon is dead...