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Precision munitions are worse than worthless if their targets are selected by dishonest men. Western diplomats and Afghan intelligence sources in Kabul say that until recently the special forces in eastern and southern Afghanistan have relied on untrustworthy informants who tricked the U.S. into sending in lethal air strikes on...
Infighting among local warlords in the region allowed al-Qaeda to mass there. "We were busy with clashes of power," says Afghan commander Abdul Mateen Hassan Khel, sitting in an office in the provincial capital of Gardez, with 40 Russian tanks rusting outside his window. "Pockets of al-Qaeda from...
It may also prove to have been the U.S.'s most calamitous blunder. According to authorities in Uruzgan and the surrounding area, the Americans killed the wrong guys. The soldiers slaughtered at Sharzam, they say, were not enemy fighters but anti-Taliban troops loyal to U.S.-backed interim Afghan leader...
ARGENTINA Baby Steps As the Central Bank prepared for this week's planned flotation of the peso, Economy Minister Jorge Remes Lenicov presented a recovery-minded draft budget to Congress. The plan includes severe spending cuts agreed to by President Eduardo Duhalde and Argentina's provincial governors, and Remes Lenicov...
Amid the widespread disapproval of her lifestyle, any good works she did tended to be forgotten. True, Margaret could be a difficult, high-handed presence - who often demanded deference even from her friends. But her many adopted charities greatly valued her efforts on their behalf. And she dutifully slogged through...