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...There are a lot of men with guns in Afghanistan, and they seldom get along for very long. Indeed, for the past two decades, Kalashnikovs and RPG-7 rocket launchers have been the basic tools of Afghan politics. Right now, a broad-based government probably means simply accommodating all of those strong enough to fight their way into the chamber. That may be the dictate of realpolitik. But an equilibrium of force won't be particularly stable in a land where war has become a way of life for men and boys. One outlandish recommendation to those hoping to create...
...Islamic group Hamas launched its new Qassam 1 rocket, which is based on an old North Korean design, toward an Israeli town last week. It landed in an open field, causing no casualties, but because of its range, the rocket could make the terror attacks of the intifadeh much more effective. Named for a military division of Hamas, the weapon has a range of 3 miles, far longer than Hamas' garage-built mortar shells. Palestinian security chiefs tell TIME that Hizballah operatives bought or stole a rocket from Syrian soldiers in Lebanon and smuggled it to Gaza, where a Hamas...
...they failed. "Anthrax is particularly persistent," says the analyst. "It's still there, but there's no telling where it is, no tubes labeled 'anthrax.'" Washington has had a cleanup of Vozrozhdeniye on its Central Asia to-do list for years, but it ranked well below abandoned nuclear and rocket bases in Kazakhstan. Since the wave of anthrax attacks in the U.S., officials have realized they had better reprioritize. On Oct. 22 the U.S. signed an agreement with Uzbekistan to eradicate all vestiges of germ-warfare development from the island...
...Najibullah, a 10-year-old refugee from Taliban-controlled Kunduz province, lives crammed in a ragged tent with his parents and four siblings. Already, he knows how to fire a Kalashnikov from daily target practice with his family firearm. When he is older, he hopes to fire a rocket-propelled grenade. "I am small now," he says, squaring his tiny shoulders. "But I will be big when I shoot the Taliban who killed my aunt and uncle." By avenging their deaths, Najibullah is carrying on family custom. His father tracked down the Soviet platoon that killed relatives in the 1980s...
...Heavy rains slowed the rebel advance. Just west of the city, Taliban forces in the old citadel Qala-I-Jangi uncorked a final fusillade from cannons, multibarrel rocket launchers, mortars and fixed machine guns. Alliance troops found hundreds of Taliban fighters--most of them Arab and Pakistani volunteers--holed up in a girls' high school. They were zealots, primed for death: after the Alliance commanders failed to coax them into surrender, a two-hour fire fight broke out, and all the Taliban troops were killed or captured. It was their last stand. The Taliban had set up no defenses inside...