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...Pashtun politics and the need to stay on the right side of the U.S. An ethnic Pashtun loyal to the exiled King Zahir Shah, Karzai's political base remains narrow even among the Pashtun, Afghanistan's largest ethnic group. He heads up a government dominated by the non-Pashtun Northern Alliance, and right now that government remains little more than an a deal on paper which is being loudly challenged by many of the regional warlords who have taken over from the Taliban but feel shortchanged by the political deal brokered between various exiles and the Northern Alliance in Germany...
...Thornhill, Ont. native, who just turned 18 this semester, is the ECAC’s leading scorer. She and Dartmouth junior Carly Haggard are tied with 19 points a piece a top the ECAC Northern division...
...Meanwhile, Walker himself remains a total mystery. By most accounts, he seems to be at least slightly unhinged (an observation echoed by a Northern Alliance fighter who, according to wire reports, indicated the young American and made the universal gesture for "crazy"). Whether he's mentally competent to stand trial remains to be seen, but some legal experts suspect Walker will not be tried as a traitor; instead he'll be charged with sedition - a largely unused charge that implies the advocacy of violence against the government - or some other, lesser crime...
Dalla Santa was born in the northern region of Italy and came to the United States in 1972, according to his autobiography in the Lowell facebook...
...Second, there?s not really a time element here. What does it matter if Kandahar falls next week or next month? Why change the formula, when there?s nothing to be gained? The Northern Alliance fighters know the terrain and the language, and U.S. forces haven?t trained with them, aren?t used to communicating with them on the battlefield. The Marines will probably end up doing what it makes sense for them to do - provide technical support, protect the airfield, maybe cut off an escape route if it?s needed. But going door-to-door in Kandahar when...