APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East articles from May 2004

APS Diplomat Strategic Balance in the Middle East archives from May 2004

AFGHANISTAN - The Coming Challenges: The Regime's Opponents - Part 5.
May 17, 2004... The US-backed regime of Hamid Karzai has a wide variety of opponents, ranging from an enemy coalition that groups the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda to the Islamic Mujahedeen of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar to warlords supposed to be part of a...

AFGHANISTAN - Controversy Over Execution & Karzai-Sayyaf Links.
May 17, 2004... Fledgling efforts towards establishing the rule of law in Afghanistan took a great leap backward last month. In secret, President Karzai ordered the execution of Abdullah Shah, a man who could have revealed atrocities committed by one of...

AFGHANISTAN - Afghan/Iraq Comparisons.
May 17, 2004... Barnett R. Rubin, director of studies at New York University's Center on International Cooperation, said in an article published by the IHT on May 6: "Recent events have further clarified why the international effort in Afghanistan has at least...

AFGHANISTAN - Moving On The Warlords.
May 17, 2004... Security in Afghanistan remains tenuous and "has shown no signs of improvement. The explosive situation might soon turn out to be as bad as Iraq - but on a smaller scale. The similarities are striking, though. As in Iraq, insurgents in...