Word: tribalized
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...Shah-i-Kot for another week of combat--hunting down al-Qaeda in their most secure redoubt and, they say, killing hundreds of the enemy while losing just eight Americans during the campaign. The al-Qaeda survivors--no one knows how many--fled across the porous border into the tribal zone of Pakistan...
...TONS OF FUN Reaching the Dubare Elephant Camp is almost a safari in itself. You have to traverse a muddy, turbulent river in a questionably sound boat. But once on terra firma, the trauma of the crossing becomes worthwhile. The camp, a settlement of about 30 tribal families, was once engaged in the capture and breaking of wild elephants. Today the residents breed and train the ones they already have, and put on shows for tourists. Sounds pretty tame, but the camp's denizens love to point to a rogue jumbo, tethered with heavy chains nearby, and recount the harrowing...
...Pashtun tribesmen in Pakistan held a demonstration to protest against an army operation to hunt down suspected al-Qaeda fighters. Pakistani para-milit ary troops destroyed houses where the wanted men were suspected of hiding and detained four people in the village of Jani Khel in the tribal areas near Afghanistan. Local elders said that the six suspects were not members of al-Qaeda but students from a local religious school...
...knows the changing fortunes of post-Taliban Afghanistan better than Zadran. Before Sept. 11, he was living as a refugee in the tribal areas of Pakistan. Then came the war against the Taliban and al-Qaeda. The U.S.-led coalition needed local proxies to prosecute the war in the Pashtun-dominated southeast. Zadran, who fought against the Soviets and the Taliban, found himself flush with U.S. cash and with an army of foot soldiers. Zadran and his extended clan actually ran the provinces of Khost, Paktia and Paktika for a few weeks last spring until he was chased...
...head-bang while thrashing on an air guitar. Meanwhile, Miserable Faith's musicians kick off their set with a groove-heavy bass riff, and the 50 Naxi kids around me?all painted like football hooligans?start up their mad moshing again. True to the matriarchal traditions of their tribal culture, the girls match the guys slam for slam...