New Taliban chief entering limelight
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Sometime in mid-December, as the winter winds howled across the snow-dusted hills of Pakistan's inhospitable border regions, 40 men representing Taliban groups all across Pakistan's northwest frontier came together to unify under a single banner and to choose a leader.
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A fundamentalist Muslim who the U.S. suspects of collaborating with al-Qaida terrorists was named Saturday as the new leader of an Islamic militia that has seized control of Somalia&#039;s capital.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon made a surprise visit to Kabul on Friday to hold talks with President Hamid Karzai ahead of a conference in Rome next week that will seek ways to improve law and order in Afghanistan.
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Exactly three years after the American-led overthrow of the Taliban, Hamid Karzai was inaugurated as Afghanistan&#39;s first democratically elected president yesterday, to the evident satisfaction of the Bush administration.
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KARACHI, Pakistan -- A veteran Afghan warlord wanted by the United States has distanced himself from the Taliban and given his strongest indication yet that he was open to talks with President Hamid Karzai.
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KABUL, Oct 27  - Hamid Karzai, who has led Afghanistan&#39;s interim government since the Taliban&#39;s collapse three years ago, was just days away from being declared his country&#39;s first popularly elected leader.
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ISLAMABAD/KABUL  - Pakistani security forces captured one of the Taliban's top leaders hours after U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's unannounced visit to Pakistan this week, a senior security official and Taliban sources said.
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The new nominee for Homeland Security chief brings to the table long experience in Washington and in legal matters.
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President Hamid Karzai moved Saturday to replace a powerful governor and militia leader who has long defied his authority and held virtually autonomous sway over one of the country&#39;s wealthiest regions.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A man identified on tape as the Taliban's new top field commander warned yesterday that recruits were volunteering as suicide bombers and that fighters would continue their holy war until Western powers leave Afghanistan.
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There's a new management chief at the Department of Homeland Security, ready to fill a post that has been vacant for six months.
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Hamid Karzai was sworn in Tuesday as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected president, opening a new chapter for the impoverished country, which became a haven for international
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The army commander, a Muslim himself, favors a softer approach to separatist guerrillas in the three Muslim provinces.
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Pakistan's General Pervez Musharraf appointed a new military spy chief and made several other promotions on Friday, days after announcing his plan to step down as head of the army if re-elected president next month.
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SHEBERGHAN, Afghanistan -- For the first time in its history, this desert town is showing off the trappings of democracy. Campaign posters decorate storefronts, and the local leader, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, has traded his military uniform for a dark suit and has hit the campaign trail.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Afghan security forces  have captured Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar's personal  security chief as he traveled in a van to the southern city of  Kandahar, provincial officials told Reuters on Tuesday.
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show however they will be briefed that a person related to Kabul will be coming in.