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...Colonel Howard looks back on what he was able to achieve during the period of the extension: A program training Afghan police that has given the provinces of Kunar and Nuristan a more reliable police force; a better relationship with locals forged in regular security meetings with tribal elders; and the establishment of medical clinics and schools. "Our last four months here have been the most effective," says Howard. "I think our national leaders have made the right decision...
...Chaudhry, are being taken as a sign that Pakistan's judiciary is losing patience with the Musharraf government's interference in the legal system, and that this is combining with popular anger over rising prices of basic commodities, corruption in the government and military actions in Balochistan and the tribal areas...
...second time this week, the Iraqi government has announced the death of a top terrorist - only to be greeted with skepticism. The earlier claim that tribal fighters had killed al-Qaeda's Iraq military leader, Abu Ayub al-Masri, has yet to be verified. But Thursday's announcement by Iraq's Interior Ministry of the killing of al-Qaeda's political/spiritual leader, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, was accompanied by claims that the terrorist's body was in the government's possession. But U.S. military spokesman Maj.-Gen. William Caldwell has brushed off the claim that al-Baghdadi had been killed...
...What Iraq needed were Arabists and Foreign Service officers who understood the country's tribal allegiances, or who at least knew a Sunni from a Shia. What CPA seemed to be getting were people anxious to set up a Baghdad stock exchange, try out a flat-tax system, and impose other elements of a lab-school democratic- capitalist social structure. One of my officers returned from a trip to Iraq a month or two after CPA had taken over and told me, "Boss, that place runs like a graduate school seminar, none of them speaks Arabic, almost nobody's ever...
...brutal slaying of two young Sunni Muslims in what appears to have been an act of tribal revenge by a Shi'ite clan has reminded Lebanon of the deadly passions that can be unleashed by the bitter public feuds of their politicians. The kidnapping, torture and murder of Ziad Ghandour, 12, and Ziad Qabalan, 25, is the latest act of sectarian violence that has left many fearful for the future, even as Lebanon's chastened political leaders scramble to unite in condemning the killings...