Heavy fighting in Afghanistan with Dostum's forces

Oh, I forgot... they're a bit "tied up" at the moment... :grr:

Is there anything these guys have touched that hasn't turned to s**t?

of the very wealthy are doing OK. Corporate polluters are happy. Thats about it.

Northern Strongman Takes Afghan City -Official
Thu Apr 8, 2004 07:17 AM ET

KABUL (Reuters) - Forces of a renegade adviser to the Afghan president have overrun the capital of a northern province, a defense ministry official said on Thursday.
"Both the governor and the commander have fled. Dostum's forces have overrun Maimana," said the ministry official, who did not want to be identified.

The ministry earlier began flying the first of several hundred troops to restore order in the remote northern province of Faryab after forces of ethnic Uzbek strongman General Abdul Rashid Dostum occupied several districts on Wednesday and surrounded the capital Maimana.

© Reuters 2004. All Rights Reserved.

will be 2 countries in choas and the US less secure all over the world-our "war president" just can't get enough war can he? "the situation is very bad" should the motto for the Bush family

Why won't the warlords realize this?

and the sooner he is killed, the better.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=586&e=1&u=/nm/20040408/wl_nm/afghan_fighting_dc

Afghan City Falls to Strongman as Troops Fly In
36 minutes ago


By Sayed Salahuddin

KABUL (Reuters) - Forces of a renegade adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai have overrun the capital of a northern province, a defense ministry official said on Thursday.

Forces of ethnic Uzbek strongman General Abdul Rashid Dostum invaded Faryab province on Wednesday, prompting the central government to dispatch national army troops there on Thursday in an attempt to restore order.

"Both the governor and the commander have fled. Dostum's forces have overrun Maimana," said a defense ministry official, who did not want to be identified.

Presidential spokesman Jawed Ludin said an emergency National Security Council meeting chaired by Karzai had heard the city fell "to irresponsible armed individuals from neighboring provinces and areas around Maimana."

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Fresh factional fighting is bad news for Karzai, who needs to ensure security for elections in September with the help of NATO (news - web sites)-led peacekeepers and the U.S.-led force whose main task is pursuing Taliban and al Qaeda militants.

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How do you tell when people have been kidnapped rather than
"detained" or "taken into custody"? It's a very confusing day.

I suppose Dostum decided that it was a good time to end the
charade.
:puke:

This guy rapes, pillages, murders for money, runs a very profitable prison, scams tons of US taxpayer dollars and makes a killing in the opium trade.
He's Bush's kinda man.

recently opened up by the US intervention have played
a large part in his renewing his enterpreneurial spirit.

I wonder what his relationship is with our buddy in Uzbekistan?

running the USA.

time to buy Mr. Dotsum back.

Maybe Hickmetyr is almost as bad.

Problem was that once we drove the Taliban out, we did NOTHING to clean up these warlords.......in fact, we ENABLED them.