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...mostly on private donors in Italy, including the pro soccer team Inter Milan--Strada had rounded up enough financial support to launch Emergency. Since then, the group has treated nearly 200,000 women and children as well as some combatants at its clinics and rehabilitation programs in Afghanistan, Cambodia, northern Iraq and Sierra Leone...
...IGNATIUS is the editor of the Asian edition of TIME and is the point person for our reporters in the field. Every day he faces questions like, How do you get money to the frontline camps? Answer: you wire it through the Northern Alliance's embassy in London. Chat with Adi on Monday...
...totally destroy the military infrastructure of the Taliban while at the same time strengthening the Northern Alliance (which represents only about a third of the tribes) would lead to extreme political imbalances in Afghanistan and be a cause of more bloodshed [THE TALIBAN, Oct. 15]. So it is of the utmost importance that the U.S. clean up the mess it creates in Afghanistan, help set up a fair and balanced government and not desert the Afghans as it did in the 1980s. SIBGHAT ULLAH Lahore, Pakistan...
Early last week, Mullah Ustad Mohammed Atta seemed certain, murderously so, that Northern Alliance forces would take Mazar-i-Sharif, a strategically crucial city in northern Afghanistan that has been the site of numerous bloody incursions over the past decade. It didn't matter that the Taliban had more men and more weapons there; Atta insisted that its morale was low and dropping by the minute, and that it was only a matter of time before defectors began spilling out. The 37-year-old commander had already led a premature and decidedly ill-conceived raid on Oct. 16, during which...
...Panjshir Valley as proof that it is determined to prevent a repeat of the lawlessness that characterized Kabul before the Taliban took control. "There is no question of any repetition of the events that took place in Kabul before," promises Mohammad Da'oud Askaria, the director of the academy. Northern Alliance representatives have also been cozying up to former King Mohammed Zahir Shah, who is favored by the U.S. to lead a broad-based post-Taliban administration...