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...working yet. The U.S.'s chief security interest lies in shoring up the Kabul government and helping set up a national army that can solidify the central administration's authority in the lawless countryside. But to accomplish those tasks, the U.S. will have to navigate a thicket of ethnic rivalries and blood feuds--and there is reason to doubt that the U.S. is committed to doing the dirty work. Western diplomats in Kabul say protecting Karzai, a member of the majority Pashtuns, should remain the top priority for U.S. forces; but the military is preparing to take special-ops troops...
...Gangsters may have been useful in bringing some order to the lawless world of Indian cinema?a huge industry run like a street stall, where no contract is signed and a promise is easily broken. But the bhais don't do favors. They extort money, run their own banks like Shylocks, and demand international distribution rights to potential hit films...
...time: late last year. The scene: the Pankisi Valley, a lawless corner of Georgia just over the mountains from Chechnya that is a safe haven for drug dealers, kidnappers, Chechen guerrillas and, if U.S. officials are right, a small number of al-Qaeda operatives. A Russian military jeep drives up a narrow, winding track and is ambushed by bearded gunmen. In the resulting firefight, one of the attackers is killed. Such skirmishes happen almost daily in Chechnya, where Russia is fighting a war against separatist guerrillas. Just last week Chechen rebels shot down a Russian helicopter in neighboring Ingushetia, after...
...Still, for Moscow, the Galashki clashes are welcome evidence of Georgian perfidy. The Georgian government traditionally claims that Chechen rebels hide out in the lawless Pankisi Valley where the government has no control, but it's safe to assume the government knew what was happening. There's a lot of sympathy for the Chechen rebels in Georgia, a former Soviet Republic whose leaders have been trying to move out of the Russian orbit and closer to the West. And of course that, and not simply rebel infiltration, is the source of Moscow's hostility to Georgia's government...
...still active and recruiting"--in all likelihood, the terrorist groups are no more than 10 strong. Local officials contradict reports that significant numbers of al-Qaeda members have returned to Afghanistan since the war. Even in neighboring Pakistan, al-Qaeda members aren't entirely secure. In some relatively lawless tribal areas that border Afghanistan, terrorists can hide--though the Pakistani army claims to be hunting them down. But last week's arrests suggest that the teeming slums of Lahore and Karachi may no longer be safe; the night before the raid on Binalshibh's safe house, according to a Pakistani...