Word: sherzai
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Advisers to Gul Agha Sherzai, the warlord who has retaken control of Kandahar, told reporters Wednesday that seven Taliban leaders had surrendered their weapons and vehicles to Sherzai and sworn loyalty to him. The governor then sent them home to their villages. The next day, Sherzai's men claimed Turabi was the only Talib to surrender. A day later, no one had surrendered--but six (Turabi and five low-level officials) were said to have approached Sherzai and asked for amnesty, which he refused. But he promised not to pursue them as long as they left a forwarding address. They...
...Kandahar is a polarized city; governor Gul Agha Sherzai has the title, but not all the power. In this new and unsettled post-Taliban Afghanistan, a soldier's loyalty often lies not with the governor, but with the commander who lent him to the government. It's not a stable system, especially now that noses are out of joint over the gubernatorial appointment. And so the robbers, branded as Sherzai's Pakistani recruits, were besieged at 7 a.m. by mujahedin, many from rival factions. Kalashnikovs began barking back and forth, soon joined by salvos of rocket propelled grenades, the explosions...
...Both Sherzai and Naqib want to run Kandahar, and there is an edgy standoff among the commanders here. There has been sporadic shooting in the city...
Looters stole a bicycle and a motorbike from CNN's office here. They apparently knocked the wall down at the back. Some of Sherzai's men also stole the car of our fixer. His brother tried to stop them and said, "I want a receipt from Ghul Agha for it." They said, "O.K. Get in the car, and come with us." They didn't go far before a man turned a gun on him and said, "Do you really want a receipt?" The brother sensibly replied, "No, I don't think I do," and then got out. That...
...elders who immediately carved up the city. On liberation day Kandahar was as chaotic as it was joyous. Non-Taliban forces led by Mullah Naqib Ullah, an Omar backer and member of the Alokzai tribe who was handed control of part of the city, skirmished with men loyal to Sherzai trying to grab their share. Meanwhile, the Pentagon said, anywhere from 5,000 to 15,000 Taliban troops?most of them Pakistanis, Chechens, Algerians, Saudis and Egyptians?remained in or near Kandahar, some holed up in the homes of their former comrades. U.S. bombers strafed Taliban forces in the city...