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...they were clinging desperately to a 10 percent sliver of northern Afghanistan, having been chased out of Kabul by the Taliban in 1996. Now, they're back in control of Kabul and more than half of the country - and they're talking like incumbents. Alliance leader President Buranhuddin Rabbani reminded the world on the eve of the talks that he remains Afghanistan's legal head of state, not only in the minds of his own supporters but also according to the juridical fiction maintained in the United Nations these past five years by an international community reluctant to recognize...
...Alliance President Burhanuddin Rabbani, once a foremost proponent of expanding the burka's reach across Afghanistan. More recently, Rabbani allowed to an interviewer that "wearing a head scarf is enough in the cities." But in the Northern Alliance stronghold of Faizabad, his acolytes make sure that all women are completely covered. "Rabbani is better than the Taliban," says Farahnaz Nazir, a women's rights activist in the Northern Alliance town of Khoja Bahauddin. "But he is still very conservative. He does not believe that women are equal...
...They drove out both Rabbani and his enemies, winning over most of the local warlords who dominate rural Afghanistan. Rabbani's ousted Tajik forces joined with the Shiite Hazari mujahedeen backed by Iran and with Dostum's Uzbek militia to create the Northern Alliance, which has now reclaimed Kabul thanks to the U.S. campaign against the Taliban. And while they're paying lip service to the notion of a "broad-based government," Rabbani is back in Kabul. Despite its internal divisions - Hazari fighters last week marched into Kabul to stake their own claim for a share of the Alliance...
...launching a ferocious civil war in which some 50,000 people are believed to havebeen killed. The issue was simply power, and its distribution both across different ethnic groups and among rival warlords within particular ethnic groups. In 1992, the victorious mujahedeen had agreed to appoint Tajik leader Burhanuddin Rabbani as president for one year. But Rabbani held on for four years, during which time the forces of Pashtun warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar waged a vicious artillery campaign that turned the capital into rubble and killed thousands. Hekmatyar was sometimes joined on the battlefield by the Uzbek militia of General Rashid...
...critical to international efforts at brokering a compromise. Even as it prioritizes the hunt for Osama bin Laden, on the diplomatic front the U.S. finds itself caught between the Northern Alliance and Pakistan. Much may hinge on what the Russians are telling the Alliance - although they've recognized Rabbani as the head of the legitimate government, the Russians know that a renewed civil war may see Pakistan once again expand its influence, and avoiding that scenario may persuade them to push the Alliance to compromise. But that remains a tough call, and there are few encouraging signs right now that...