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...defeated," five members of an Afghan nonprofit group were shot dead by suspected militants. In Spin Boldak, a dusty smugglers' crossroads in southeastern Afghanistan, the Taliban have launched four major ambushes from Pakistani hideouts against Afghan government outposts over the past nine months, killing dozens. Abdul Raziq, the pro-U.S. garrison commander in Spin Boldak, says he has received intelligence from tribal allies in border towns like Chaman that the Taliban are gearing up for a major guerrilla campaign. "They are coming," he says. "It's only a matter of time...
...1980s anti-Soviet mujahedin got Stinger missiles and Chinese-made AK-47s, later used by the anti-U.S. Taliban...
...first foreign military force to get its hands on a stockpile of U.S. weapons. Here are some conflicts of the past few years that the U.S. has unwittingly armed. Afghanistan In the 1980s anti-Soviet mujahedin got Stinger missiles and Chinese-made AK-47s, later used by the anti-U.S. Taliban turkey Turks got 100 Black Hawk and Cobra helicopters from the U.S. before Gulf War I, and used them against the Kurds Colombia M-16s that the U.S. gave to the Colombian army in the 1990s to combat drug trafficking are now in the hands of terrorist groups...
...uniforms. For starters, May 14 would be a prime day to take advantage of the fiftieth anniversary of the Hague Convention by declaring America’s intention to sign and ratify the pact at last. Becoming a global leader in social responsibility will go farther to ending anti-U.S. sentiment and terrorism than bullying and warmongering ever will...
...self-proclaimed “secret squirrels” of Iraq invited my group to dinner at one of Saddam’s water palaces (they had been living there since February 2002, a month before combat had officially begun). We ate Whoppers and hot apple pies around a U-shaped marble table in lavish, high-backed upholstered chairs. Saddam’s flat-screen surround-sound theater system echoed satellite television off the cavernous walls of the ballroom...