Word: rabbani
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...face of even limited military action by the West. The Taliban's remarkable rise to power was assisted in no small part by direct support from Pakistan, which has now been withdrawn. And its rapid march on Kabul was facilitated by the defection of many field commanders loyal to Rabbani who sensed a shift in the political winds. It is widely expected that a similar dynamic may work against the Taliban once it comes under concerted military pressure. And Pakistan is now reportedly working to court moderate Taliban elements opposed to protecting Bin Laden in the hope of ensuring...
...West's natural military ally against the Taliban are the battle-hardened legions of the Northern Alliance (or United Front, as it prefers to call itself). The UF still controls between 5 and 10 percent of Afghanistan and its nominal political leader, Burhanuddin Rabbani, still holds Afghanistan's U.N. seat as the head of the country's recognized government despite being overthrown by the Taliban in 1996. But while the UF may be the most important fighting force ranged against the Taliban, it offers little by way of an alternative government...
...Rather than seeking to resolve the question ahead of time, the U.S. and its European allies have sought instead to forge consensus among the various anti-Taliban factions over a process for determining a future government. Rather than Rabbani - whose tenure is remembered as an era of corruption and vicious civil war in which tens of thousands of civilians were killed as rival factions battled for control of the capital - the West has enlisted the help of the former king, Zahir Shah, who has been living in the suburbs of Rome since being deposed in a 1973 coup. Western strategy...