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...Taliban fighters in southeastern Afghanistan, while U.S. outposts come under (mostly inaccurate) fire on an almost daily basis. Spring has seen an escalation in both the number and intensity of operations by the Taliban and its allies - although there may now be less direct involvement by al-Qaeda personnel, the new guerrilla war appears to involve a coordinated command structure combining Taliban fighters, loyalists of the fiercely anti-American warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and other former Mujahedeen commanders alienated from the U.S.-backed government in Kabul...
...facto control of a patchwork of often feuding warlords whose links to Kabul are often tenuous and many of whom have reverted to extortion, drug production and other illicit revenue streams. Even in Kabul itself, Karzai finds himself a virtual prisoner in the palace, guarded by U.S. personnel because the Northern Alliance troops of his defense minister, General Mohammed Fahim, may not be sufficiently trusted with Karzai's life. Fahim, of course, is quite happy for the affable Pashtun president in the coat of many colors to be the international face of a government dominated by his mostly Tajik Northern...
...stunning illustration of the awful price civilians pay in war. Now that the Iraqi people have been liberated, the coalition and the U.N. must make it a top priority to treat and rehabilitate victims like that boy. There should be no limit on the resources and medical personnel we provide to help the Iraqi medical community restore the lives of the wounded. ROBERT A. WISCHMEYER Ann Arbor, Mich...
...that the U.S. hasn't been trying to find them. An almost weekly rhythm of widely reported false alarms is a reminder that the Pentagon has deployed hundreds of its own personnel to find the banned weapons that had eluded UN inspectors before war. Last weekend, it was announced that the number of U.S. inspectors would be increased to 1,500 - five times the number of deployed by Dr. Hans Blix's UN team. But so far, no "smoking gun" has been found...
Soriano said that some personal connections with Packers personnel helped seal the deal. Green Bay head coach Mike Sherman is the first cousin of former Harvard offensive line coach Jim Turner...