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...under siege at Kunduz in the north, with the Northern Alliance threatening to launch a bloody assault by nightfall Friday if they fail to surrender. The era of Taliban power is plainly over, but the next chapter of Afghan conflict may have already begun as rival anti-Taliban factions stake competing claims for power - and the Taliban itself tries to regroup for a protracted guerrilla campaign...
...Friday on their whereabouts, but plenty of speculation - including Iranian reports that he may have already slipped into Pakistan. U.S. special forces are roaming the south, engaging in firefights with retreating Taliban fighters and gathering intelligence on the possible whereabouts of their leaders. And local Pashtun warlords, eager to stake their own claim in a new political dispensation, are wresting control of most southern towns from the Taliban...
...danger of a new civil war is not only confined to Kabul. Local warlords appear to be grabbing for power all over southern Afghanistan in the wake of the fleeing Taliban, warily eyeing one another as they stake their own claims. The international community is, not surprisingly, working frantically to get a U.N.-mandated security force and transitional regime installed. Western powers, supported by Russia and Iran, backed a Security Council plan adopted Wednesday night to authorize a mission to Afghanistan that includes a two-year transitional government backed by a multinational peacekeeping force, composed of troops sent by such...
...Harvard will win bigtime! An undefeated season at stake and I’m sure they’ll put if off. I wish I could play...
...students skipping classes and generally defying the Ivy Leaguer stereotype. Elfenbein ruefully accounts her experiences with one journalist, who exclaimed “Wow! It must really smell in there!” as being representative of a typically superficial attitude lacking in substansive analysis of the issues at stake...