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The new Afghan government of Hamid Karzai is in deep trouble. The power of its domestic foes is growing daily. Inside the government, the minister of defense, Mohammed Fahim, is leading an unlikely Red-Green coalition of former Communists and jihadists from the Northern Alliance. Before the Karzai government could take power, Russia egged on the Northern Alliance to defy President Bush's orders-which it did, moving its forces into Kabul and immediately starting to pack the government with its own people. The Americans accepted this fait accompli, naively assuming that they could gradually shift power to Karzai, especially with the formation of a national army.
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