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Geoquiz question: The Central Asian nations of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan all border what landlocked country in the Hindu Kush Mountains?
The Central Asian nations of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan all border what landlocked country in the Hindu Kush Mountains? Answer: AfghanistanTags: Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
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U.S., China vie for oil, allies on new Silk Road
Tribune foreign correspondentThe wind-raked scrub of this barren plateau reveals little hint of the revolution gurgling 9 feet beneath. China's first international oil pipeline, buried in the Kazakh steppe, is a milestone for the world's newest empire--one forged not in the name...Tags: Kitty Hawk, Russia, Mountains, Amnesty International, Osama bin Laden
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The Plots and Designs of Al Qaeda's Engineer
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersSenior Pakistani and American intelligence officials say the operational commander of Al Qaeda, the man believed to have planned the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States, narrowly avoided capture during a raid in which authorities took his two young sons...Tags: Rentals, Newspaper and Magazine, Karachi (Pakistan), Family, Africa
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Q&A: Iraq Demystified: a Primer on Politics, History
The U.S. war in Iraq takes place in a region with a long and complicated history unfamiliar to many Americans. We asked experts on Iraqi politics and history to answer some basic questions. How did Iraq come into being? Iraq was born as a state in 1921,...Tags: History, University of Maryland, College Park, United Kingdom, Colleges and Universities, Ruhollah Khomeini
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10 Held as INS Targets Visa Abuses
Times Staff WriterImmigration agents arrested 10 people Wednesday in a search for foreign visa holders who are not enrolled in school, the government's first crackdown since Sept. 11 on foreign students who abuse their visas. The early-morning sweep across San Diego...Tags: Interior Policy, Colleges and Universities, Deportation, FBI, Immigration
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Northern Alliance not seen as a cure
Tribune foreign correspondentIn the wake of air strikes by the U.S.-led coalition, the search has begun for a viable successor to Afghanistan's hard-line Taliban regime, whose ragtag army and outdated arsenal are not expected to survive a protracted offensive by modern weaponry. The...Tags: Mountains, Osama bin Laden, Pervez Musharraf, International Court or Tribunal, Government
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U.S. looking to next mission: helping stricken Afghans
New York Times News ServiceThe collapse of the Taliban has opened the next crucial phase of the American campaign in Afghanistan: joining the effort to deliver relief for millions of hungry, cold, sick, war-weary Afghans, thousands of them at death's door. In the end, the war...Tags: Death, Refugee, International Organizations, Charity, Terrorism
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Old grudges complicate plans to help U.S.
Tribune foreign correspondentFor Russian President Vladimir Putin, facing a wrenching decision about supporting U.S. military action in Afghanistan, the devil was not in the details. The devil, which is how some in Russia still regard America, was in whether to support President...Tags: Russia, Germany, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Government, National Security
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U.S. forces find a likely strike base
Tribune foreign correspondentAmerican officers scouting locations to deploy U.S. troops in Uzbekistan are focusing on the former Soviet air base at Khanabad, Uzbek military sources said Tuesday. A U.S. advance team of several officers began studying Khanabad on Sept. 20, the sources...Tags: Osama bin Laden, U.S. Army, The Washington Post, Terrorism, National Government
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Rivalry Brews in Russia's Backyard
Times Staff WriterThe Cold War may be over, but U.S. and Russian soldiers are expanding outposts in this mountainous former Soviet republic about 3,200 miles east of NATO headquarters in Brussels and nearly 2,000 miles from Moscow. The U.S. opened its base three years ago...Tags: History, Russia, Natural Resources, U.S. Army, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
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U.N. fears abuses of terror mandate
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterDemands by the Security Council that U.N. members act against global terrorism are being used by some regimes to justify repression of domestic dissent, U.N. officials and independent human rights advocates say. The anti-terrorism campaign has been...Tags: Amnesty International, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Justice System, Political Systems, Finance
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