Word: khans
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...into the miasma of Afghanistan's impossible politics. Diplomats say an ambush of U.S. special forces earlier this month in the province of Khost, in which Green Beret Sergeant Nathan Chapman was killed, may have been in reprisal for the U.S.'s backing an unpopular local warlord there, Pacha Khan Zadran. Zadran has enemies within his own tribe, including one who claims to be Khost's new governor and whose 500 fighters captured part of Khost last week. Twice now, Zadran's foes say, he has called in U.S. air strikes on his enemies, claiming they were al-Qaeda...
...next evening I walked from my office to the Armory on Lexington Avenue, which was acting as a clearinghouse for emergency supplies, and jotted down the names of the missing whose pictures had been posted on the nearby walls. There they were: Garcia, Munoz, Kuo, Lee, Srinivasan, Khan, Kampour... Nobody has an accurate count of how many foreign nationals died in the World Trade Center--some of the dead held dual nationality, and some undoubtedly were illegal immigrants--but the number was certainly substantial. David Usborne, a reporter for the Independent of London who has made a careful study...
...good part of Kabhie Khushi's $10 million budget went to pay for the leads: Amitabh Bachchan, who lit up the screens in the '70s and '80s; Shah Rukh Khan, who pulled in the audiences in the '90s; and current heartthrob Hrithik Roshan. Each is paired with an equally stellar actress: Bachchan with his real-life wife, Jaya, whose impish charm once made her the girl Indian men would have loved to take home to mom; Khan with Kajol Mukherjee, whose girl-next-door persona spawned some of the biggest hits of the past decade; and Roshan with Kareena Kapoor...
...pity Johar didn't spend some spare change on a decent scriptwriter: he wrote the movie himself, and evidently in a hurry because Kabhie Khushi is a tired old tale devoid of surprises. A rich couple (the Bachchans) have two sons and a little secret: the older (Khan) is adopted. This is not a problem for anybody until the boy falls for an unsuitable girl (Mukherjee). The boy's father, who has already arranged a bride, instantly accuses his much-loved son of lacking in filial duty. Cue to a clash between generations, forcing the adopted son to leave home...
...Iran has been accused of arming and funding forces loyal to its longtime client Ismail Khan in the western city of Herat, who are challenging the authorities in Kabul. Rival warlords have squared off around Kandahar. The Northern Alliance itself remains divided among various factions, and most of southern Afghanistan's major towns were simply taken over by coalitions of local warlords, many of whom continue to seek to expand their fiefdoms at the expense of their rivals. Into the mix throw thousands of Taliban and al-Qaeda holdouts (including most of their senior leadership) still roaming the hills...