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...known for its thieves and opium smugglers. As one associate of Sherkzai's admitted: "Of course, these men are bandits." There, he recruited men for 15,000 rupees ($250 a month), and outfitted them with weapons and at least 40 kilos of hashish, according to this associate. As one tribal chieftain Sardar Galani Khan Ashazai says, "These men are drug smokers. They're only fighting for U.S. dollars. They have...
...amassed 5,000 men and is marching southwards through the mountains to Kandahar. It may be true that Karzai once was in Oruzgan - he was rescued from a Taliban ambush six weeks back by U.S. choppers - but there are some doubts that he's still there. One reliable Pakistani tribal elder told TIME that Karzai is making his sat-phone broadcasts from a secluded house in Toba Achakzai, a village on the safe side of the Pakistan-Afghan border - and several hundred miles from Oruzgan. "Karzai and his men - these are not fighting people," says Malik Sarwar Khan Kakar...
...better option than Sherzai and his unruly mercenaries. Kandahar sources say that the Taliban defense minister Mullah Obadullah has sent out feelers to Karzai, offering to hand over the city to him and to Mullah Naqib, a respected former Soviet war commander residing in Kandahar with a large tribal following. "Some commanders are thinking of a change of strategy, but Mullah Omar is overruling everybody." And so far, nobody dares to defy the self-anointed Commander of the Faithful. One Pakistani intelligence officer recently told TIME; "You can finish the Taliban simply by killing off Mullah Omar...
...implementing it. After all, the Northern Alliance commanders are the de facto rulers over much of Afghanistan until any new dispensation takes shape. Complicating matters is the fact that the groups gathered at Koenisberg are not exactly a comprehensiv e cross-section of Afghanistan's contending militias, political organizations, tribal structures and ethnic constituencies, and there's a tremendous power imbalance between them...
...Northern Alliance: A deputation sent by the exiled King Zahir Shah; another representing Pakistan-based Pashtun warlords loyal to the king; and a third representing exiled intellectuals and Iran-backed Pashtun mujahedeen commanders. Most notably absent, are not only the Taliban, but also representatives of the Pashtun tribal leaders and warlords who have filled the void left by the retreating zealots in much of southern Afghanistan. The Pashtun are Afghanistan's largest ethnic group, comprising almost 40 percent of the population. But the Pashtun representatives in Germany are based outside the country, and whereas Washington had once hoped the former...