Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Osama bin Laden set up his terrorist training camps five years ago. It brought money to an area where cooking pots are a major expense. It maintained close ties with local Pashtun tribal leaders. There was relative peace. Now those same villages, scattered over hundreds of square kilometers of lawless and rugged mountains, are providing haven for Al-Qaeda fighters on the run. A commander named Abdul Basir says he caught five wounded Arabs in a place called Seliman Khil three days after they had be routed from their camps. "Al-Qaeda pays a lot of money to the people...
...life-threatening. Imagine trying to negotiate crossing a busy Kabul street, dodging donkey carts, careening buses and Taliban roaring by in their Datsun pickups when your vision is reduced to a narrow, mesh grid. The plus point of a burqa is that it confers invisibility on a woman. In lawless Afghanistan, that's a necessary shield...
...There are legitimiate uses for a military trial - trying terrorists in a military court in a place as lawless as Afganistan is one of them. But whether and under what rules a trial of terroists in the United States should be conducted in secret or in public before a military tribunal is another matter. In a case such as the 1942 trial of the German saboteurs, it would clearly be justified on its merits and the Supreme Court expressly so held. But in other cases, the administration itself may well conclude that the wiser public policy is either a public...
...Adventures of Brisco County Jr.” lasted a season. So did his recent program, “Jack of All Trades.” His frequent appearances on “Xena: Warrior Princess” never gave him the national recognition of a Lucy Lawless, but he has continued to press on nevertheless, and as more people have discovered his work, they too have become believers...
...battle on the way to cold war victory. Finished too was American interest in the shattered nation. Afghanistan's endemic feuding between the dominant Pashtuns and the ethnic minorities had hampered the anti-Soviet fight, and then it demolished what was left of Afghanistan. The country fell into bloody, lawless chaos - political leaders formed fighting brigades; warlords bit off fiefdoms; and rivals shelled one another's villages, routinely robbing and killing civilians. Smuggling and drug trafficking were the only sources of revenue as farmlands turned to dust, cities crumbled into ruin and an estimated 5 million citizens fled the country...