Drug trade thrives as Taliban war fuels heroin flow
Uzbek border guards search buses in freezing rain for Afghan heroin as regional efforts aim to choke the trade. Analysts warn traffickers gain from chaos. Afghanistan remains a major opium producer with flows moving through Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan despite fighting. The northern alliance and U N agencies note continued smuggling and the link to terror funding.
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White House rules out foreign peacekeepers for Afghanistan
The White House urged no international security force enter Afghanistan until war ends and warned against using U S troops for peacekeeping. Relief groups fear a humanitarian crisis as aid and security falter, while the northern alliance worries foreign forces would undermine gains. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld favors local Afghan control to avoid targeting peacekeepers.
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Last Afghan king eyes return as unifying figure
The 87 year old Mohammad Zaher Shah lives in Roman exile and may return to Afghanistan not as monarch but as a symbolic grandfather to unite a fractured nation. Once aloof and restrained, he modernized late in his reign before a 1973 coup ousted him, and he has since observed Afghanistan from afar with family and aides.
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