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...also prove to have been the U.S.'s most calamitous blunder. According to authorities in Uruzgan and the surrounding area, the Americans killed the wrong guys. The soldiers slaughtered at Sharzam, they say, were not enemy fighters but anti-Taliban troops loyal to U.S.-backed interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai. They belonged to a military commission appointed by the new provincial government to oversee the collection of leftover Taliban weapons. "A terrible mistake has been made," said Abdul Ghani, an Uruzgan businessman...
...actually rests on her ability to create more of the catchy pop tunes (or heaven forbid, goopy ballads) that launched her career a decade ago. As her last album proved, making that type of music isn’t always easy to do. Her fans have not proven themselves loyal to Mariah Carey, superstar and prima donna; to win them back, she’ll need to reinvent Mariah Carey, musician and singer...
...Once a Taliban stronghold, the area today is tentatively controlled by forces loyal to the new government in Kabul. On Jan. 23, a military commission sent by the governor had been gathering Taliban weapons at the village's meager Sharzam High School, anticipating the imminent surrender of three senior Taliban commanders holding out in the mountains. But it was not the Taliban that came, in the early hours of the following morning...
...military commission Haji Sanagul and Qadous Khan Jahadwal, had been appointed by the provincial government. "They were not Taliban, they were a military commission working with (Interim Prime Minister) Hamid Karzai," says schoolteacher and Uruzgan elder Farou Khan. The men slaughtered in Sharzam High School had been loyal to Hamid Karzai's interim government. Karzai's brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, says he knew six or seven of them personally. Qadous Khan Jahadwal, he says, "had been with us for 23 years...
...Provincial governor Jan Mohammed Khan asked the U.S. officers why the school had been attacked, only to be told, "We don't know who bombed them". A senior member of the Kandahar shura (governing council) loyal to the new government in Kabul says he met with U.S. military officials at their airbase last week. "They acknowledged there had been a mistake," he says...