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...question is: Which government? In Gardez, the man officially in charge of the province of Paktia?Raz Mohammad Delili?is a poised Afghan with a law degree and a formal appointment by the government of President Hamid Karzai. But a few kilometers outside the provincial capital, there's another center of power: Pacha Khan Zadran, arguably Afghanistan's most erratic warlord, whose 3,000-strong army patrols the jagged, mountainous routes from Gardez to the tribal areas of Pakistan. They're hunting for al-Qaeda members on the run and report on their luck to Charlie and his American colleagues...
...Outside Gardez, Haji Noor Mohammad, commander of Zadran's men, stands guard at one of Zadran's checkpoints. Mohammad says he has just given an intelligence briefing to the Americans. Pointing up to the peaks to the south, he warns, "There are more al-Qaeda here in this area. After Shah-i-Kot, they went to the tops of the mountains." Pacha Khan Zadran is vain, grasping and irksome?but his help may be worth the aggravation...
...least 27 Muslims were killed in their 600-family farming village, then relents, explaining darkly that there were "reasons." Other Hindus, when questioned, merely mutter vaguely about "God's will." The returning Muslims don't know where this leaves them. "We lived together quite happily," recalls farmer Faiz Mohammad Khan. The change precedes the slaughters of February and March: several years back, some prominent Hindus in the village began organizing meetings of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), extremist champions of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). "They came here and talked about Muslims, how all of us have weapons...
...portion of his collection in 1992 for $24.5 million. DIED. DHIRUBHAI AMBANI, 69, rags-to-riches founder of India's largest business empire Reliance Industries; in Bombay. Ambani amassed a multi-billion-dollar fortune first through textiles, then petrochemicals and oil refining, now Reliance's core business. SENTENCED. MOHAMMAD KHORDADIAN, 46, Iranian-born American dancer, to a 10-year suspended jail term, for showing videotapes of his dance courses to Iranian youths; in Tehran. Khordadian, who had been living in the U.S. since 1981, had traveled to Iran to see his ailing father. Islamic hard-liners condemn dance...
...example, loudly rejected is designated role as a premier staging ground for a ground invasion. "We refuse to be a launching pad or arena for any act against our brotherly state Iraq or to use our soil and airspace to attain this objective,'' said Jordan's Information Minister Mohammad al-Adwan Tuesday. That sentiment has been echoed by the Saudis, Kuwaitis and anti-Saddam Kurdish leaders in northern Iraq. If they do participate, the Kurds minimum demand is autonomy within a new Iraqi federation. But domestic secessionist concerns make Turkey, another key staging area for a U.S. attack, implacably hostile...