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...wanted to find the ex-Taliban deputy interior minister, all they had to do was ask the baker at Kabul's diplomatic enclave of Wazir Akbar Khan. The baker drags a flat-iron shaped nan bread from the wood-fired oven, and brushing flour from his hands, points down to a lane of high-walled villas, all with marble facades. These villas are among the city's few spoils of war, and they are grabbed by a new set of commanders every time the city changes hands. When the Taliban fled Kabul, Khaksar, elected to stay behind in his villa...
...wanted to find the ex-Taliban deputy interior minister, all they had to do was ask the baker at Kabul's diplomatic enclave of Wazir Akbar Khan. The baker drags a flat-iron shaped nan bread from the wood-fired oven, and brushing flour from his hands, points down to a lane of high-walled villas, all with marble facades. These villas are among the city's few spoils of war, and they are grabbed by a new set of commanders every time the city changes hands. When the Taliban fled Kabul, Khaksar, elected to stay behind in his villa...
...Khost as a way of trying to keep the area more or less under Kabul's control. Another, Pachakhan Zadran, governs Khost, Paktia and Paktika. His deputy for Khost province is his 28-year-old brother, Kamal Khan. The youngest of the family, an engaging 17-year-old named Wazir Khan who was born in exile in Pakistan and who set foot in Afghanistan for the first time a few months ago, liaises with U.S. special forces...
...black community. But his firebrand approach has also won over some blacks. "He is respected in the black community for his audacity," says Howard University political science professor Ronald Walters. "Supporting Farrakhan has become a way of hitting back at the system and expressing black public opinion." Says Abdul Wazir Muhammad, minister of the Muslims' Los Angeles Mosque: "We are a barometer of the conditions and feel of the black community. If you really want to know how black people feel, then watch the Muslims...
...campaign for independence. The intifadeh has changed perceptions, painting the Palestinians as ill-armed victims of Israeli truncheons and gunfire. Israel did its share to bolster sympathy for the P.L.O. by sending to Tunis the hit team that in April assassinated the organization's military commander, Khalil al-Wazir...