Word: overthrowing
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...This is not the first time the U.S. has helped Afghan warlords overthrow a despotic usurper. But, like Washington's support for the anti-Soviet mujahedeen during the 1980s, this is not a mercy mission. Back then, supporting the mujahedeen was simply a way of weakening America's Cold War enemy; the purpose of the current war is to destroy the anti-American terrorist infrastructure that had taken root in Afghanistan. This time, however, the U.S. would do well to avoid simply walking away from Afghanistan, as tempting as that option may become once Al Qaeda's infrastructure there...
...Afghanistan collapsed into factional fighting following the Soviet defeat in 1989, al-Zawahiri ushered back to Egypt many of the Arab veterans of the war. There they became Al Jihad operatives, dedicated to Mubarak's overthrow. Meanwhile, al-Zawahiri and bin Laden relocated to Sudan. Most of the missions that al-Zawahiri launched into Egypt, including separate attempts to assassinate the Prime Minister and a former Interior Minister, ended in failure. The successful bombing of the Egyptian embassy in Pakistan was the demented high point of the campaign. Mubarak's security forces responded with a ferocious crackdown in which hundreds...
Start at the coalition's core. Britain, Washington's closest ally, is signaling wildly that there are limits to its support. In particular, London says it sees no evidence of Iraqi involvement in the atrocities, and--on present evidence--would not support a war to overthrow Saddam Hussein, which plenty of Administration conservatives are itching to fight...
...full plenum of 15 member states got together in mid-afternoon, they encountered fewer substantive differences than they have at previous Council summits dominated by thorny issues of how money and power get shared out in the E.U. The members agreed to tone down a proposal calling for the overthrow of the Taliban in favor of "the emergence of a stable, legitimate and representative government for the whole of the Afghan people." More immediately, the ministers underlined their intention to iron out the details, by their next meeting in early December, of a common European arrest warrant for terrorist offenses...
...attention from Afghanistan following its defeat for fear that if the country is plunged back into civil war it will remain a breeding ground of terrorism. But stabilizing a post-Taliban regime in Kabul may prove to be as perilous, if not more so, than the effort to overthrow the fundamentalist militia. The reason is simply that the enmities that have torn apart Afghanistan run far deeper than the excesses of the Taliban, and the West has little to work with by way of established alternative political forces on the ground...