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AFGHANISTAN
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With the Loya Jirga a success and a new government in place, the situation in Afghanistan was looking up. The Bush administration was set to review its "where now?" goals. But the assassination of Vice President Haji Abdul Qadir in early July, threats to President Hamid Karzai's own life and signs that rising violence in the countryside could wreck the international-aid programs have given the picture an ominous new cast. And Karzai's new U.S. bodyguards won't fix the deeper problems. Without cash to run his embryonic Kabul government, without aid to disburse to the regions and without the forces to bring order, he is ...