Word: tajikistan
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...Omar may attempt to strike back with guerrilla ambushes or die trying. So for now, at least, America's campaign against al-Qaeda and the Taliban will still be authored largely from the air. The U.S. plans to send another 50 to 70 warplanes to a base in Tajikistan. The number of AC-130 gunships, used to hover over targets and destroy them with devastating firepower, is rising from six to nine...
...group in Afghanistan. The Pashtun are the largest minority, making up some 38 percent of the population, but like the Tajik (25 percent), Hazara (19 percent) and Uzbek (6 percent) they are part of a group whose majority lives in another country. Most Pashtuns live in Pakistan, Tajiks in Tajikistan, Uzbeks in Uzbekistan, and while the Hazaras are not ethnically linked with Iran, their Shiite brand of Islam gives them a common identity with the Islamic Republic distinct from their fellow Afghans. Afghanistan has traditionally been ruled by Pashtuns, although their power has often been contested. And the fearsome wars...
...historically sought to shape her politics to their needs, from the 19th century "Great Game" between the Russian and British empires to the Soviet invasion of 1979 and Pakistan's intervention via the Taliban in the mid 1990s. The Northern Alliance has enjoyed the support of Iran, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Russia, each for their own reasons, while Pakistan threw its weight behind the Taliban. The regional dynamic may now be critical to international efforts at brokering a compromise. Even as it prioritizes the hunt for Osama bin Laden, on the diplomatic front the U.S. finds itself caught between...
...Omar may attempt to strike back with guerrilla ambushes or die trying. So for now, at least, America's campaign against al-Qaeda and the Taliban will still be authored largely from the air. The U.S. plans to send another 50 to 70 warplanes to a base in Tajikistan. The number of AC-130 gunships, used to hover over targets and destroy them with devastating firepower, is rising from six to nine...
...ATTACK] ALBANIA [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] [FOILED TERRORIST ATTACK] TUNISIA MAURITANIA [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] ALGERIA CZECH REPUBLIC KOSOVO LIBYA LEBANON [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] JORDAN [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] KUWAIT [FINANCIAL BACKING] QATAR U.A.E. [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] [FINANCIAL BACKING] ERITREA ETHIOPIA [FINANCIAL BACKING] [TERRORIST ATTACK] UGANDA [TERRORIST ATTACK] [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] KENYA [TERRORIST ATTACK][ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] TANZANIA [TERRORIST ATTACK] CHECHNYA, RUSSIA AZERBAIJAN [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS] UZBEKISTAN KYRGYZSTAN TAJIKISTAN BANGLADESH MALAYSIA [ARRESTS/DETENTIONS...