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...guarantee that the U.S. and its allies shy away from. When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said recently that the U.S. is "not interested in staying [in Afghanistan]" and has "no long-term stake there," she probably - if inadvertently - caused fence sitters to reconsider their options. Indeed, Masoom Stanekzai, Karzai's point man on the reintegration policy, says that for it to work, a U.S. commitment of more troops is important. "The stronger presence of security forces in an area means that more Taliban commanders are under pressure," says Stanekzai. "They will ask themselves, 'Continue and be killed, or join...
...Taliban now control 75% of a country torn by war... In their first week the Taliban shut girls out of schools and ordered women workers from offices and hospitals. At a press conference, two female foreign correspondents were forbidden to ask questions of the Acting Deputy Foreign Minister Shirmohammad Stanekzai, because, according to an aide, he "must not hear their voices" ...Residents of Kabul were generally too cautious to express concern about the Taliban out loud, but they certainly had reason to wonder: at the first Taliban-attended Friday prayer meeting, soldiers forced passersby into mosques at gunpoint...
...weeks ago. In their first week the Taliban shut girls out of schools and ordered women workers from offices and hospitals. The shunning of women was impossible to ignore. At a press conference, two female foreign correspondents were forbidden to ask questions of the Acting Deputy Foreign Minister Shirmohammad Stanekzai, because, according to an aide, he "must not hear their voices." Meanwhile, men were given a month to grow beards, and the photographing of human figures--as well as certain buildings, military operations and "sensitive incidents"--was forbidden. Amnesty International claimed 1,000 people were jailed in what it called...
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