Word: mujahedin
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...Abdul Qadir. The loss was of more than another politician; Qadir was Karzai's rallying point for the vast Pashtun south which feels excluded - and threatened - by the Northern Alliance. Though the Qadir killing is most likely related to the drug trade, local power plays or revenge against a mujahedin warrior who made many enemies, it has scared Afghanistan's political elite...
Qadir's death marks the end of an epic of two remarkable brothers. Qadir had been the elder of the two; Abdul Haq, 12 years his junior, had been the favored one. Abdul Haq was a legendary mujahedin hero in the war against the Soviets. In America's battle against the Taliban, he became one of the few Washington selected to eventually lead the country. But Abdul Haq, for all his talents, was unlucky. He lost a foot in a land-mine explosion years ago; he lost his wife and children to Taliban assassins; and finally, last October, he lost...
...Much was riding on Qadir, a former mujahedin hero of the anti-Soviet resistance. As the leading representative of the country's disenfranchised Pashtun majority, Qadir was the centerpiece of President Hamid Karzai's maneuvers to integrate Pashtuns who have been effectively excluded from power by the Tajik-dominated Northern Alliance that defeated the Taliban. Now that plan is threatened. "This has been caused by enemies of peace and stability," says Karzai's foreign affairs spokesman Omar Samad...
...Serb leader Radovan Karadzic. For General Sylvester - who is leading the antiterror task force - that is beside the point. He is clearly a man on a mission. He was in Bosnia in 1996 when NATO troops uncovered a terrorist training camp run by Iranian and other Islamic militants, or mujahedin, who had come to help their Muslim brothers - by making items like boobytrapped ice-cream cones and exploding toys. Soon after returning to Bosnia last September, Sylvester helped uncover a plot to attack the U.S. and British embassies and then presided over the arrest and deportation to Guantanamo...
JALALABAD The dominant power in the east is former mujahedin commander HAJI ABDUL QADIR, a Pashtun and brother of Abdul Haq, the resistance hero executed by the Taliban last October. As governor of Nangarhar province, Qadir, who has about 2,000 troops, controls the road connecting Kabul and Pakistan...