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To: TigerPaw who wrote (8958)4/8/2004 2:58:33 PM
From: geode00  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 173976
 
Deep concern about stability? Talk about understatement.

Karzai is the 'Mayor of Kabul' and that's just central Kabul as he has apparently lost control of some of the burbs. Warlords have armies larger than his and drug money to boot.

The US just put in another $2b but how much of that is going to the warlords and drug dealers?

Ooops.

That's the third front then. Two fronts in Iraq and one in Afghanistan.

Iraq:

".... But American intelligence officials now believe that hatred of the American occupation has spread rapidly among Shiites, and is now so large that Mr. Sadr and his forces represent just one element..

nytimes.com