Word: warlords
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...greatest danger is not the playground bully but something far worse: the possibility of being kidnapped and sold to a local warlord who fancies young boys. In Afghanistan, where a premium is placed on women's honor and chastity, young boys are often considered fair game for sex. Indeed, according to Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani author and expert on the Taliban's rise, the religious movement, with its strict emphasis on law and order, started in the early 1990s after a drunken commander picked up one of Mullah Mohammed Omar's young seminarians and performed a mock, public wedding with...
...idea that you can be a Lebanese national, that you don’t have to be the traditional warlord in order to succeed and in order to make a difference, it’s going to give a lot of encouragement to the future generation of politicians,” Bodine said...
Stanley Bing is among our best corporate-war correspondents because he's in the trenches. By day, he toils for a media warlord, sparring with corporate enemies, many of whom seem to be co-workers. He takes names and then, turning to his guise as a columnist at FORTUNE, kicks butt in print. In Sun Tzu Was a Sissy, Bing unloads on the famed Chinese strategist whose treatise, The Art of War, launched a thousand battles in China centuries ago--and a million management books in the past decade purporting to adapt Tzu's sublime Eastern battle philosophy to winning...
...Iraq holds free elections in January, whom will Iraqis vote for? Will it be a warlord who pledges to kill every infidel American on Iraqi soil? Does the Administration expect us to believe that the Iraqi people are going to vote for moderates interested in normalized relations with the West? If Bush is re-elected in November, at least those voting against him will be able to take solace in knowing that he has run out of people to blame for this debacle. Joel Yanovich Los Angeles...
...strongmen don't come any stronger than General Abdul Rashid Dostum. A former communist general known to have ordered enemy captives crushed under a Russian tank, Dostum, 49, is trying to transform himself from warlord into smiling presidential candidate. That's going to take some finesse, given that he strikes fear in many Afghans in his northern stronghold of Shebarghan. Dostum's idea of campaigning is to sit on a thronelike chair in his rose garden and scowl at a line of deferential tribal elders, officials and militia commanders who will be expected to deliver votes from among the Uzbeks...