Abdul Rashid Dostum, one of the Northern Alliance warlords who helped oust the Taliban in 2001 appears to have decided he’s not playing nicely with Afghanistan’s central government any longer. Needless to say, this is really, really awful news. Sy Hersh has an article on the goings on in Afghanistan this week in the New Yorker. (Both links via Flit.)
Dostum unbridled
Abdul Rashid Dostum, one of the Northern Alliance warlords who helped oust the Taliban in 2001 appears to have decided he’s not playing nicely with Afghanistan’s central government any longer. Needless to say, this is really, really awful news. Sy Hersh has an article on the goings on in Afghanistan this week in the New Yorker. (Both links via Flit.)
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