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In Kabul, Afghans hope for peace.(The Dallas Morning News)
KABUL, Afghanistan _ Col. Dalaqa Ghiazy first went to war in 1983, a 16-year-old soldier in the U.S. supported "holy war" against a Soviet occupation army.
After years of nearly nonstop war, weariness is etched in his face.
"I've spent almost all of my life fighting," Col. Ghiazy said Saturday at his command post, an abandoned house on the southeastern outskirts of Kabul. "I'm very, very tired."
Around this shattered city of 1.2 million people, Afghan soldiers and civilians alike say they want nothing more than peace after more than two decades of war.
As leaders of various Afghan political factions on Saturday completed a fifth day of talks in Germany aimed at creating a transitional government, one question hang like a loaded gun over this war-ravaged capital: Will Afghan warlords and politicians set aside their differences and finally heed the wishes of their exhausted people?
The answer promises to resonate far beyond Afghanistan, a forgotten Central Asian backwater that U.S. officials say became the hatching ground for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.
For Afghans, the stakes are literally life and death. Without progress in the effort to create a new, broadly representative government, a massive United ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, In Kabul, Afghans hope for peace.(The Dallas Morning News)