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...mountain ranges. But soon after he arrived, the war swept him away. After the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance captured Mazar-i-Sharif from the Taliban, his parents stopped hearing from him. "We were sure he'd been killed," says Azeem. Khan was a Pashtun, and the Uzbek conquerors of the city hated Pashtuns...
...finding itself more and more in Afghanistan?caught between backing regional strongmen who will help root out al-Qaeda, and the people Karzai has sent out to build a coherent Afghan nation. Two weeks ago, both U.S. officials and Karzai's government were embarrassed by reports that Uzbek commander Rashid Dostum, who worked closely with U.S. special forces around Mazar-i-Sharif during the early part of the anti-Taliban war, might have suffocated Taliban POWs in shipping containers and buried their bodies in mass graves. Zadran is the Dostum of Afghanistan's southeast, an unsavory but necessary ally...
Italian and U.S. officials last week fingered Tokhtakhounov, 53, a bull-headed Uzbek long linked with the Russian Mafia, as the mind behind the skating scandal at last winter's Salt Lake City Olympics, when tumble-down Russian pairs skaters Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze won gold over Jamie Sale and David Pelletier, the Canadian duo who gave a demonstrably superior performance. Now implicated in the mess are the gold-winning French ice-dance team of Russian-born Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat. Anissina and her mother are the two women believed to be caught on tape talking with Tokhtakhounov...
...conversations between Tokhtakhounov and a woman believed to be Anissina's mother Irina Chernieva--a former Olympic figure skater who strenuously promoted Marina's career--were startling if not downright incriminating. In one, the Uzbek promised, "We are going to make your daughter an Olympic champion. Even if she falls, we will make sure she is No. 1." In another, a Frenchman called Chevalier (presumably a cohort) is heard assuring the Uzbek, "Even if the Canadians are 10 times better, the French with their vote have given them [the Russians] first place. You understand...
...there's no question that Tokhtakhounov is something of a sport. In the '60s he played soccer for Pakhtakor, the Uzbek Republic's team. "It is true he has some friends who are athletes," said Saldarelli, "but only soccer players...