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Complete alphabetical listing of directory topics: Phillip Robertson
Can warlords make peace in Afghanistan?
Donald Rumsfeld wants the U.S. to stay out of peacekeeping and build a national army instead. The problem is that first you need a nation.
The massacre at Oruzgan
The killing of 21 pro-Karzai soldiers by U.S. forces illustrates how hard it can be to tell your allies from your enemies in war-torn Afghanistan.
Beware the highwaymen
Crossing perilous bridges in a cash-filled Corolla, nothing is as important as watching out for black turbans.
Keeping the peace in Kabul
As sporadic fighting breaks out around the country, our reporter tags along with a British-led peacekeeping force trying to maintain order in the Afghan capital.
Magic carpet ride
I went to visit an Afghan opium bazaar -- but they wouldn't open their stalls until I returned with the police.
Love, Jalalabad style
Since the Taliban fell, weddings are a time to sing and drink and party. But some things haven't changed: Nadar didn't meet his bride until their wedding day.
Refugees the U.N. won't see
At the Sar Shahi refugee camp, the thousands of widows, amputees, children and unemployed men who occupy the acres of patchwork tents find themselves in assistance limbo.
A passage through Peshawar
Manzoor the fixer takes care of everything I need -- permits, bribes, even a bodyguard -- and then says goodbye at the Afghanistan border.
Stuck outside of Kabul ... with the nuclear blues again
Musharraf is afraid of losing a war, while Vajpayee is afraid of losing an election. It's hideous politics that makes rational people like me want to drink too many gin and tonics.
One thing India and Pakistan can agree on
A Kashmir independence fighter makes enemies on both sides as he dreams of a free and secular state and tries to stay out of prison. Complete alphabetical listing of directory topics: |
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