Word: northerner
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KABUL, Afghanistan: Fearing the growing power of Afghanistan's fundamentalist Taliban leaders, three militia chiefs in the nation's northern provinces have formed a formal military alliance. Former military chief Ahmed Shah Massood signed a mutual defense pact Thursday with militia leader Rashid Dostum and Shiite Muslim leader Karim Khalily that establishes a new government covering nine provinces. Massood has been skirmishing with the Taliban since the movement drove Afghanistan's government out of Kabul two weeks ago, and Dostum says he fears he will be next. The men lead a minority population in the north that fears persecution from...
...there is a democratically elected president in Haiti, peace in Bosnia--we've just had elections there," Clinton said. "We made progress in Northern Ireland and the Middle East...
...long day, but after more than four hours on the team bus and two games behind them, the Harvard men's water polo team (5-3, 2-1 EWPL) returned home from the Northern Division Tournament at the University of Massachusetts with one convincing win and one near-upset...
...when the threat from Iraq is not self-evident and the justification from Washington is not clear, "no one will leap to support the U.S." In fact, Turkey, which is worried about cross-border attacks by the Kurds, has urged Baghdad to take control of Kurdish lands in the northern Iraqi no-fly zones. "We have sent a delegation to Saddam to tell him that if he can impose central authority there, O.K.," Turkish Foreign Minister Tansu Ciller told the New York Times last week...
...United States doesn't care a whit about the Kurds! The United States has been providing helicopter gunships to Turkey so Turkey can better attack Kurdish villages. A while back, Turkey was even allowed to invade the so-caled "safe haven" in northern Iraq in pursuit of Kurds...