Word: kabul
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...away. While the world's attention has been fixed on Iraq, the other war has sparked back into life. Having nursed themselves back to health in Pakistan, Taliban forces are re-energized and determined to avenge their defeat. The Taliban's old structures may still be largely intact; a Kabul-based security official says the "neo-Taliban" is guided by many of the same men who ran Afghanistan's theocracy from 1996 through 2001, when it provided protection for Osama bin Laden and the terrorist camps of al-Qaeda. General Garni, military commander of Zabul, speculated last week that Mullah...
Nothing was more symbolic of the Taliban's fall than the appearance of a forbidden kite in the skies over Kabul. Breathless news accounts heralded it as a harbinger of Afghanistan's rebirth; the killjoy Talibs were gone and music, which they had also banned, played at their wake. But in Khaled Hosseini's debut novel, The Kite Runner, this symbol of liberation serves only to remind Afghan refugee Amir of a past he has desperately tried to escape. Exiled to San Francisco, Amir revisits that past in a series of flashbacks set amidst Afghanistan's war-wracked history. What...
...Seierstad, holed up in Baghdad's Palestine Hotel, had fared. "With TV, people think they know you, they care for you," she says, both touched and disturbed by the concern. "They don't care about thousands of Iraqi children, but they care if I survive." In The Bookseller of Kabul, Seierstad's account of staying with a family in Afghanistan in the months after the Taliban's fall, she accomplishes vividly in print what comes so easily on screen. Her portrait of Sultan Khan, the title subject, and the dozen or so family members who live in his home...
...Taliban fell in late 2001. Four days later, hundreds of guerrillas attacked a police station in Paktika province and killed seven Afghan policemen. Four more cops were taken hostage during another raid nearby, and last Monday, nine policemen were murdered by heavily armed gunmen in Logar province, west of Kabul...
...hunt al-Qaeda and its allies, and some 5,000 NATO troops staff International Security Assistance based in the capital. That leaves the Taliban and its allies to pursue the same strategy used by their forebears against the Soviets - take control of the countryside, and make it ungovernable from Kabul. Reconstruction efforts are slow and troubled, investors are staying away and the barbarians are rattling the proverbial gate. Despite two years under U.S. tutelage, Afghanistan remains a failed state. It's not costing the U.S. much in terms of lives and treasure (the Administration even forgot to put money...