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...warlords returned to opium cultivation as the U.S. turned its attention toward Iraq, whole provinces were back in the drug business and officials in Washington began to be worried the Taliban would reap the benefit. If it were a sovereign state, just the southern province of Helmand--a Taliban stronghold--would be the second largest source of opium in the world. The rest of Afghanistan would be the first. "The drug trade," Debat observes, "is the blood of the insurgency in Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warlord or Druglord? | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...military’s actions in Iraq have contributed to a political situation that’s less “independent state” and more “state of confusion” as of the new year. Across the pond, old-school Communist stronghold the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the superpower perpetually on the verge of blowing up (literally and figuratively), now claims the world’s fourth largest economy as well as the site of the 2008 Summer Olympics. But the next Red Scare might come not from...

Author: By Alwa A. Cooper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Better Red than Dead? | 2/7/2007 | See Source »

...P.L.O.'s diplomatic and military strategies, including a failed joint peace effort with an old adversary, Jordan's King Hussein. Now Arafat's P.L.O. has returned to Lebanon with vengeance. In the bloodiest fighting since rival Christian factions clashed a year ago, Arafat is struggling to regain his former stronghold in the strife-torn country. And an array of his enemies?Israel, Syria and the Lebanese Shi'ite Amal militiamen aligned with Syria?so far seem powerless to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: The Return of Chairman Arafat | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

...original invitation to visit one N.P.A. unit was canceled due to "bad weather"-rebel code for increased enemy activity. Instead, we travel north along a half-finished highway through Compostela Valley, another guerrilla stronghold, where troops assigned to Arroyo's security detail had been injured in an N.P.A. ambush in July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War with No End | 1/25/2007 | See Source »

...internecine confrontation, his own men would kill two Hamas men. The Islamists responded by vowing to double the size of their security forces and to fight any attempt to disarm them or to oust the government. Following Fatah's mass rally on Sunday in Hamas's Gaza stronghold, Hamas is planning later this week to hold similar shows of strength on the streets of key West Bank cities, traditionally Fatah's stamping ground. And observers on the ground are expecting the two sides to raise the stakes by escalating the wave of assassinations of each other's leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Palestinian Chaos a Road to Peace? | 1/10/2007 | See Source »

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