Word: mcneill
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...Kabul government, the alternative is a return to chaos. And so in recent weeks the U.S. military has assumed the kind of peacekeeping duties that the Bush Administration has sought to hand off to the 5,000-person International Security Assistance Force. Last month Lieut. General Dan McNeill, the commander of U.S.-led forces in the country, spent an afternoon mediating a border-tax dispute between rival warlords from Kandahar and Herat. After an hour of discussions at a house overlooking Herat, the trio emerged and broke into a round of hugs. "We've been drawn into this nation-building...
...Noorzai says when General Dan K. McNeill, the U.S. commander of operations in Afghanistan, and the American ambassador Robert Finn came to President Hamid Karzai's office they brought with them guarantees of massive assistance. "It's not compensation as such," says Karzai's spokesman Fazel Akbar. "It's support of the nation." This support consisted of $2 million dollars in cash to be given to Karzai. "There was the promise of cash aid but still we did not receive it," notes Akbar. The Minister Noorzai told TIME the money is to be distributed by the president "to the families...