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...known as the "United Front" is not exactly united on just who should govern Afghanistan and how. There has been obvious battlefield competition between Tajik militias loyal to Rabbani and those of Uzbek warlord G eneral Rashid Dostum, while the Alliance's ethnic Hazaras even marched on Kabul to stake their own claim on power when the Tajik forces seized the city. And the Alliance's Uzbek and Hazara leaders have shown little enthusiasm for bringing back Rabbani. Making facts on the ground
...create the Northern Alliance, which has now reclaimed Kabul thanks to the U.S. campaign against the Taliban. And while they're paying lip service to the notion of a "broad-based government," Rabbani is back in Kabul. Despite its internal divisions - Hazari fighters last week marched into Kabul to stake their own claim for a share of the Alliance's spoils - the anti-Taliban group appears to have little enthusiasm for giving their old Pashtun enemies too much of a role. Indeed, Rabbani on Tuesday described the Berlin talks as largely "symbolic...
...reminded why the Taliban were actually welcomed by many residents when they first seized the city in 1996 - they hoped the fundamentalist militia would at least bring peace. Now rival warlords within the Northern Alliance and among former mujahedeen commanders in the Pashtun south are deploying fighters to stake their claim to post-Taliban Afghanistan, and next week's U.N.-sponsored talks in Berlin over the country's political future are part of an increasingly urgent effort to avoid a new civil...
...consensus had been achieved. Indeed, the Taliban appears to have even negotiated its withdrawal with relatively friendly non-Taliban Pashtun warlords in a number of cities in the south on the understanding that they shared a mutual enmity for the Northern Alliance. But rival Pashtun warlords quickly emerged to stake their own claim, setting up roadblocks, charging "tolls" and marking out their own fiefdoms by deploying armed men. And while the old mujahedeen carve the south into fiefdoms, Northern Alliance commanders appear to have done the same with the major towns of northern Afghanistan. Nobody is waiting for the king...
...great season. It’s just disapointing to lose the final game in the fashion that we did especially with so much at stake,” Harvard Coach John Kerr. “Hopefully we’ll get a chance to get into the NCAA playoffs and give ourselves a chance to redeem ourselves...