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Pamela Constable
"A flurry of terrorist attacks over the past several days, as well as the deaths of nine children Saturday in a U.S. air assault on a village where a lone Taliban terrorist was said to be hiding, have cast a jittery pall over preparations for an historic constitutional assembly scheduled to begin Wednesday." [more]
"Mansour and others associated with the Northern Alliance said the group has no intention of threatening violence against Karzai or of disrupting national elections, whenever they are held. But they said several recent moves by Karzai to weaken their power had made them 'rethink' their support for his government." [more]
"Violent confrontations between police and student protesters over the last two days have left at least two college students dead of gunshot wounds, dozens more seriously injured and several policemen wounded." [more]
"Afghanistan's Pashtuns, the country's dominant ethnic group, say they are beginning to lose faith in President Hamid Karzai and to fear that the U.S. military campaign here is working against them." [more]
"Saying 'stronger measures' and 'further explanations' were needed to prevent the U.S.-led effort to hunt down al Qaeda and Taliban fugives from killing civilians, Foreign Minister Abdullah said: 'This situation has to come to an end. Mistakes can take place ... but our people should be assured every measure has been taken to avoid such incidents.' " [more]
"Hamid Karzai, 44, unelected chairman of Afghanistan's fractious interim government, seems like a man in control, but two months into his tenure he is governing largely by illusion." [more]
"The startling accusation about Thursday night's fatal attack on Abdul Rahman, the air transport and tourism minister, at Kabul International Airport cast serious doubt on the stability and unity of Hamid Karzai's national government. Installed seven weeks ago, the new administration is a fragile coalition made up mostly of backers of the former king, Mohammed Zahir Shah, and leaders of the Northern Alliance, an amalgam of groups from northern Afghanistan whose troops helped oust the Taliban in November." [more]
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(Reuters, Dec 18)
"Federal prison officers in Brooklyn physically and verbally abused immigrants detained after the Sept. 11 attacks, slamming them against the wall and painfully twisting their arms and hands, the U.S. Justice Department's inspector general said on Thursday." [more]
(STAFF, DEBKAfile, Dec 14)
"Saddam was seized, possibly with the connivance of his own men, and held in that hole in Adwar for three weeks or more, which would have accounted for his appearance and condition. Meanwhile, his captors bargained for the $25m prize the Americans promised for information leading to his capture alive or dead." [more] |
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