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Whatever the rights and wrongs of Kakarak, the episode reveals just how tricky the war in Afghanistan has become. The U.S. may have won, in the accepted sense of the word, but the enemy hasn't surrendered. Since the battle of Shah-i-Kot in March, al-Qaeda and Taliban forces have split into smaller and smaller groups, which survive by mixing with civilian populations. That's exactly what a big, heavily armed superpower with a taste for making war from the air doesn't want; it makes the chance of accidents like Kakarak much more likely...
...fact, Yousef and bin Laden have been linked for years. In a 1998 interview with ABC News, bin Laden spoke warmly of both Yousef and Wali Khan Amin Shah, another convicted member of the Bojinka plot. Yousef and bin Laden moved in the same circles during the fight in Afghanistan against Soviet forces, where Yousef first met Abdurajak Janjalani, the leader of the Philippine terrorist group Abu Sayyaf. Janjalani, who was killed in 1998, was close to bin Laden, and in the early 1990s Yousef worked with him in the Philippines. Janjalani's operations are believed by Philippine authorities...
...planets, one similar in size and distance from its star to our own Jupiter. AFGHANISTAN Karzai Keeps Power in A Kabul Compromise Hamid Karzai won a second term as Afghanistan's leader by an overwhelming majority at a U.N.-organized loya jirga, or grand tribal council, in Kabul. Zahir Shah, the country's 87-year-old former King, who was talked of as a presidential candidate, urged the 2,000 delegates (including 200 women) to choose U.S.-backed Karzai to lead the country until elections in 2004. In return for standing aside, the King received the ceremonial role of "Father...
...forces with the northern mujahedin. He and his cohort seized Mazar and set up their Jombesh. The following years raised to national art forms both the alliance of convenience and the stab in the back, and Dostum outperformed the rest. He moved in and out of alliances with Ahmed Shah Massoud, then the Jamiat commander; with Massoud's arch-enemy, the Islamist radical Gulbuddin Hekmatyar; and finally with the ultra-fundamentalist Taliban, enemy of both. Meanwhile, differences of policy and personality at the top of the Jombesh were settled bozkashi-style, as rivals succumbed, one after the other, to helicopter...
...forces with the northern mujahedin. He and his cohort seized Mazar and set up their Jombesh. The following years raised to national art forms both the alliance of convenience and the stab in the back, and Dostum outperformed the rest. He moved in and out of alliances with Ahmed Shah Massoud, then the Jamiat commander; with Massoud's arch-enemy, the Islamist radical Gulbuddin Hekmatyar; and finally with the ultra-fundamentalist Taliban, enemy of both. Meanwhile, differences of policy and personality at the top of the Jombesh were settled bozkashi-style, as rivals succumbed, one after the other, to helicopter...