Word: tribalized
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...forces of a rival warlord. The absence of Taliban or al-Qaeda from that fight - and previous warnings by interim president Hamid Karzai that he would call for U.S. air support against armed challenges to his government - prompted speculation that American forces were being drawn directly into Afghanistan's tribal wars. The Pentagon disputes that, stressing that it was simply helping out allied forces who had been ambushed in the course of an anti-Taliban mission. But as Afghanistan runs out of Taliban to go after, those distinctions promise to get blurrier and blurrier...
...rivals, some of whom have begun making alliances of convenience with America's enemies and others who remain independent but increasingly hostile to the U.S. and its local allies. The CIA has reportedly warned the U.S. government that the danger is mounting of a renewed outbreak of ethnic and tribal fighting in Afghanistan. And that potentially raises the dangers to American personnel deployed in Afghanistan...
...Sherzai is also under pressure from some of his own tribal allies over the allocation of spoils, and disaffected elements are being courted by more militant opponents of the new government. A landscape teeming with posses of armed fighters of fluid loyalty may already be challenging the U.S. military's determination to avoid involvement in inter-Afghan power struggles...
...According to Khaksar, the reason the U.S. hadn't been able to find Mullah Omar so far is that it has been relying on "liars" and tribal chieftains who were using U.S. firepower to wreak revenge on their ancient enemies. (Khaksar's brother-in-law is Mullah Salaam, one of Omar's closest advisers; indeed, Salaam may be on the run with Omar.) What does Khaksar want for his hoard of information? Safe passage for his family to a location of his choice. Not Pakistan, he says - too dangerous and too full of ex-Taliban and ISI agents who want...
...with U.S. Central Command officials at their Florida headquarters, the agent signaled the Predator to shoot. A 100-lb. Hellfire missile roared toward the truck at nearly 1,000 m.p.h. According to Amanullah Zadran, a minister in the Afghan government, the dead included three local al-Qaeda members. Local tribal leaders claimed, however, the dead were not al-Qaeda. On Saturday, a team of 50 U.S. troops at the attack site began looking for evidence under a deep blanket of snow...