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...relief agency were looted and burned to the ground, along with those of French aid agency ACTED and a number of Afghan restaurants and businesses. On Tuesday, four Afghan aid workers with the charity Action Aid were killed in the first targeted attack on an NGO in northern Jawzjan province, which like Kabul, had previously been viewed as stable. "People were angry with the NGOs because they are using lots of money for themselves. The only people who get any benefit from them being here are the people are working for them," said Isatullah, a mechanic...
...With average Afghans angry about their daily lot, the Taliban are no longer the only anti-government forces that the U.S. has to worry about. It was young men allied to the Taliban?s arch-foes - the heroes of the Northern Alliance who ousted the ultra-Islamic regime - that were major agitators in the Kabul violence. Many of the demonstrators were carrying portraits of ethnic Tajik Afghan resistance hero Ahmad Shah Massoud, assassinated by the Taliban a day before the September 11 attacks...
...south and east of the country, and Tajiks from Massoud's Panjshir valley stronghold feel marginalized. Foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, the last member of the powerful Panjshiri elite to hold a cabinet post, was dropped by Karzai in a reshuffle earlier this year. "The Panjshiris who led the Northern Alliance are angry because they have been ostracized and shut out from positions of power by this government," said Michael Shaikh, an analyst with Human Rights Watch...
...Haunted by the belief that many other jumpers who didn't survive may have had the same regret, Hines has joined with the Psychiatric Foundation of Northern California, families of victims, and a small group of politicians to make a renewed push to make it harder to jump over the 4-ft. railing that separates the bridge's pedestrian walkway from the water below. As part of the Art Deco structure's 69th anniversary celebration, the coalition has organized a bell-ringing across the city Wednesday afternoon in memory of all those who have died jumping from the bridge...
...them. Under Palachamy's prone head is a shallow well of blood. On the shiny brown bellies of his two dead boys is blood from their mother, who has been shot in the face. The murders were part of a wave of executions on May 13 on the remote northern Sri Lankan island of Kayts. That evening, the gunmen killed nine others, including four of the Ketheeswarans' relatives. "I can't imagine what type of animals would do this," says Father Amal Raj from nearby St. Philip Neri's church, who helped move the bodies...