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...Letter in response to this article: Washington has lessons to learn on foreign policy / From Harlan Ullman, Senior Adviser, The Atlantic Council, Washington, DC, US...
...Afghanistan replaced General Wali Mohammad Ahmadzai, who was appointed army chief in June, with General Hibatullah Alizai on Wednesday....
...Ahmad Wali Massoud, one of a band of leaders holding out against the Taliban from their base in the Panjshir valley, raised the prospect of a broad civil uprising if the militants did not agree to a deal...
...The group operates a centralised budget, run from Mosul, and dozens of regional budgets managed by its walis, or governors....
...Additional reporting by Ahmed Mhidi in Turkey, Jane Arraf in Baghdad, and Geoff Dyer in Washington...
...Additional reporting by Ahmad Mhidi, an independent journalist based on the Turkish border and Geoff Dyer in Washington...
...It believes the Pakistani government co-operates with Washington on drone attacks....
...The Taliban government had been overthrown for having sheltered the al-Qaeda network responsible for the 9/11 terror attacks on New York and Washington....
...By agreement with the Washington Post...
...This article appears by arrangement with the Washington Post...
...The killing sent shockwaves through Kabul and Washington, underscoring the vulnerability of President Hamid Karzai’s inner circle and raising fears that a power struggle will erupt in the south, the focal...
...But there are already reports from Washington that the campaign has given a new edge to requests by Africom, the Pentagon’s African command, for more surveillance equipment....
...Not many people in Washington or London had ever heard of Ghulam Haider Hamidi, but the Taliban were scared to death of him....
...Additional reporting by Richard McGregor in Washington...
...Additional reporting by Javed Hamdard in Karz and Sayed Salahuddin in Kabul By agreement with the Washington Post...
...Ahmed Wali Karzai, the president’s half-brother, is described as “widely understood to be corrupt” – although another dispatch mentions his offer to take a lie-detector test to prove his innocence....
...Ahmed Wali Karzai says he is helping the interior ministry register militias so they can be brought under Kabul’s supervision....
...Yet Washington is counting on Mr Karzai to back a push by Nato this summer to beat the Taliban on its home turf by persuading Kandaharis that a new era of responsive government has dawned....
...The powerful half-brother of Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s president, has vowed to back a major Nato operation in Kandahar, dismissing fears in Washington that he will sabotage a crucial phase of the campaign...
...General David Petraeus, who will take over as head of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, has earned a reputation in Washington as the saviour of the Iraq war....
...In Kandahar, Mr Karzai has ignored calls for the removal of his half-brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, who dominates the provincial government....
...General David Petraeus, the new head of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, earned a reputation in Washington as the saviour of the Iraq war....
...Mr Karzai’s brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, is the president’s key strongman in Kandahar and has been accused of being the lynchpin of local drugs running operations....
...Then Billy signed up to represent Libya, not exactly persona grata in Washington, for a couple of hundred grand....
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