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...solicit participants, CI members were asked to help “light up the forces of darkness with bright pink paint” while HSS members were invited to “a full day of religiously motivated, simulated violence because we can’t all live in Northern Ireland or India.” These slightly underhanded bulletins, though in good fun, reveal an underlying tension bound to exist between groups with such different approaches to faith. “It’s going to be fun, but this definitely has to do with spite...
...hand behind the campaign to destabilize the new order, according to the government, belongs to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the notorious Pashtun mujaheddin commander whose forces killed tens of thousands of people when they shelled Kabul in the early '90s during a power struggle with the forces that today comprise the Northern Alliance. TIME has learned that two days after the rocket attack on the peacekeepers, Afghani police raided a house in west Kabul and arrested eight men in possession of the same Chinese 107mm rockets. "They were Hekmatyar's men and their plan was to hit the main ISAF base...
...Bonn Agreement was supposed to establish an interim government representative of all of the diverse anti-Taliban groups in Afghanistan in order to appease all of the major warlords. However, shortly before international forces arrived in Kabul last winter, the largest faction in the “Northern Alliance”—the Tajik-dominated Jamiat-e-Islami party—took over and occupied the capital. In exchange for withdrawing their forces from Kabul, Jamiat-e-Islami received the choicest cabinet positions, including the foreign, interior and defense ministries...
...proper thing to do would be to remove the warlords from power. But that would require tremendous force. The Soviets had hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Afghanistan, yet they were never able to gain full control of the country. Now that U.S. and Northern Alliance forces have dismantled al Qaeda’s Afghanistan operation, Washington is looking to pack up and leave, not expand the force. The remaining foreign soldiers, comprising an International Security Assistance Force led by Britain, is only 4,800 strong and its mandate is limited to Kabul. Both Karzai and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi...
...19th year of a conflict that has taken 65,000 lives? More than anything, the cooperation of one man, Velupillai Prabhakaran, supremo of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), one of the most enduring and deadly rebel groups in the world. Prabhakaran emerged from the jungles of northern Sri Lanka last week to hold his first press conference in 12 years and talk some very uncharacteristic talk: of peace. If the right deal is offered, he announced, he will call off the rebellion, collect the cyanide capsules from around his fighters' necks and disband what, with 217 attacks...