Word: uruzgan
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...willing to give NATO a chance. But if the alliance is to prevail, it will probably need to reexamine its strategy. "At the moment there is very little public support for NATO, but it is not the end of the world," said Haji Abdul Khaliq, a senator in neighbouring Uruzgan province. "If NATO wants cooperation from people they should change their strategy and stop fighting and build roads and schools...
...Also, in some parts of the region, the Taliban has set up its own local justice system. Many people in Uruzgan province had long since given up taking their complaints to the official courts, but the Taliban has proved it has the ability to enforce its rulings. After a murder victim's family took their complaint to the Taliban, one of its courts in Uruzgan last week ordered the execution of Pacha Khan, accused of killing a man from the area; the Taliban had apprehended the suspect and extracted a confession before ordering the death penalty. Similar cases of intervention...
...could argue with the Dutchman, installed in January 2004 as head of the 26-country alliance? Well, for starters, his own country. The Netherlands, a founding Nato member, faces a crucial parliamentary debate and vote Thursday on whether to honor a commitment to deploy some 1,200 soldiers to Uruzgan province in south central Afghanistan. It was De Hoop Scheffer himself, as the Dutch Foreign Minister for 16 months from 2002, who charted the Netherlands' careful course through the Iraq crisis, supporting Washington's coalition of the willing without alienating France and Germany. But now he's asking his compatriots...
...plans to push deeper into the mountains of Zabul and Uruzgan provinces in the coming weeks. The aim is to scatter the Taliban from their hideouts and prevent them from returning to sanctuaries in nearby Pakistan--where U.S. forces can't venture and where their ultimate prey, Osama bin Laden, may be hiding. U.S. and Afghan officials believe that the war against the Taliban will go on for months, perhaps years. The longer the Taliban survives, the tougher it will become for the U.S. to penetrate the trails that might lead to al-Qaeda's boss. That reality is more...
Mujahed's Afghan and American interrogators are interested in other voices he heard during his time fighting U.S. forces, especially those voices that came from Pakistan. Mujahed was captured four months ago in the mountains of Afghanistan's Uruzgan province after an epic chase involving eight helicopters and dozens of troops. Afterward, Afghan intelligence found stored in his satellite telephone the numbers of several top Taliban military commanders, all hiding in Pakistan. His warden says Mujahed was caught with 60 remote-controlled bombs that he allegedly confessed to picking up in Pakistan after attending a Taliban war council...