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'The War Is Not Finished'.(Afghanistan)(Brief Article)
In a bid to legitimize his role as leader of the Taliban movement, Mullah Mohammed Omar made a pilgrimage in 1996. He went to the Kherqah Mubarak mosque in Kandahar, one of the holiest shrines in Afghanistan, and donned a cloak said to have belonged to the Prophet Muhammed. Before an audience of fervent Taliban, Omar was dubbed amir-ul-momineen (leader of the faithful). On Sept. 5, when Afghan President Hamid Karzai also tried to visit Kherqah Mubarak, he met quite a different reception. A would-be assassin almost cut him down with a hail of bullets.
The contrast is worrying on many levels. The attack on Karzai, along with a bomb blast on the same day in Kabul that killed 30 people, provides ample evidence of how precarious things remain in Afghanistan. The authority of the central government really extends only to major cities, and its opponents have now shown they can strike even there. Afghan officials blamed remnants of the Taliban and Al Qaeda for the attacks. But they also pointed a finger at Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a fundamentalist warlord who had reissued a call for jihad against foreign powers in Afghanistan only days before. Karzai tried to downplay the violence, but there have been several bomb attacks in Kabul recently, and many Afghans feel they may portend even larger acts of terror aimed at sowing panic. "This shows, and we believe, that terrorism is still not eradicated from Afghanistan and the region," says Foreign Minister Abdullah. "It proves the war on terrorism is not finished here."
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Source: HighBeam Research, 'The War Is Not Finished'.(Afghanistan)(Brief Article)