Word: tribalized
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...special-forces soldiers raced through Musa Qal'eh with U.S. helicopters and fighter-bombers overhead. Accompanying them was a band of Afghan fighters and the governor of Helmand, Haji Shir Mohammed. The convoy was on its way to the nearby town of Baghran to meet an aged, white-bearded tribal leader named Rais, better known as "the Baghran"-the most powerful warlord in the area and a possible link to Omar...
...While the as-yet unidentified member of the elite Green Berets, who was charged with "coordinating with local tribal elements" is the only death due to enemy fire, there have been other U.S. military deaths related to the war in Afghanistan. In early December, three special operations troops were accidentally killed during a U.S. airstrike over Kandahar. Two soldiers died in a helicopter crash in Pakistan, one perished in another accident, another was swept overboard en route to the region and a CIA operative died in the Mazar-e-sharif prison uprising...
...There is good reason that Al-Qaeda thrived here when Osama bin Laden set up his terrorist training camps five years ago. It brought money to an area where cooking pots are a major expense. It maintained close ties with local Pashtun tribal leaders. There was relative peace. Now those same villages, scattered over hundreds of square kilometers of lawless and rugged mountains, are providing haven for Al-Qaeda fighters on the run. A commander named Abdul Basir says he caught five wounded Arabs in a place called Seliman Khil three days after they had be routed from their camps...
...guns--all destroyed. Jeeps by the side of the road had either crashed or been smashed apart. Bodies were lying beside the road; even more were off in the field by a wall. We were told that they were Arabs fighting on the side of the Taliban against the tribal forces trying to wrest control of the airport. No more...
...Taliban's final retreat was characteristically craven. Taliban sources told TIME that Omar "resisted handover until the end"?until his commanders turned against him?and then vanished. The bulk of the Afghan Taliban fled in the middle of the night to avoid reprisals by the tribal elders who immediately carved up the city. On liberation day Kandahar was as chaotic as it was joyous. Non-Taliban forces led by Mullah Naqib Ullah, an Omar backer and member of the Alokzai tribe who was handed control of part of the city, skirmished with men loyal to Sherzai trying to grab their...