Word: uzbek
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...Northern Alliance have been preparing for an offensive; their people are hungry and spoiling for a fight. Baba Qool, a refugee from the village of Hazarbagh who is in a camp under the troops' protection, lost his wife, three sons and two daughters when the Taliban--with Pakistani, Uzbek and Uighur Chinese troops in its force--raided the village last year. One old woman was rolled in a mattress, doused with gasoline and set on fire. The Northern Alliance's commanders thought their chance for revenge would soon come; the American bombers, they hoped, would target the Taliban forces massed...
...cracks are already showing in the latest venture. The leadership of the Northern Alliance is committed to it, but the group's various factions are not of one mind. "It's just a ragbag of different forces," a senior British official says of the alliance. He says its Uzbek faction rejects the group's new military commander, General Mohammed Fahim, successor to the charismatic Ahmed Shah Massoud, who was assassinated Sept. 9. The Uzbeks do support a loya jirga, as do some other commanders, like Yousnou Kanuni from the Jamiat faction. But others, like Abdul Rasul Sayyaf of the Ittehad...
...Northern Alliance have been preparing for an offensive; their people are hungry and spoiling for a fight. Baba Qool, a refugee from the village of Hazarbagh who is in a camp under the troops' protection, lost his wife, three sons and two daughters when the Taliban?with Pakistani, Uzbek and Uighur Chinese troops in its force?raided the village last year. One old woman was rolled in a mattress, doused with gasoline and set on fire. The Northern Alliance's commanders thought their chance for revenge would soon come; the American bombers, they hoped, would target the Taliban forces massed...
...battle-tested Northern Alliance may be fighting the Taliban and holding some 10 percent of Afghanistan, but Washington has sensed its limitations as a replacement government. The Alliance represents only the minority Tajik, Uzbek and Hazari ethnic groups, and carries the backing of Iran, Russia and Moscow's Central Asian allies. Afghanistan cannot be easily ruled by a government that excludes its largest ethnic group, the Pashtun (from which the Taliban are exclusively drawn). Or, for that matter, without the consent of Pakistan, the other key regional player in Afghanistan which has helped the Taliban fight the Northern Alliance...
...contraptions, and the one Bush is trying to drive now is having to make some unscheduled stops. For all the expressions of solidarity following the attacks, locking in the partnerships needed for a full-scale assault required much more than kind words. The U.S. needed access to Omani and Uzbek air bases and Pakistani intelligence and Indian airspace. And while Administration critics, starting with Israel, warned that all these would come at a cost, the Bush Administration also sensed an opportunity. Officials saw a strategic opening, a chance for a new round of realpolitik, which might knit together...