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Article: Young leaders take Afghan helm: Four Afghan delegations choose Hamid Karzai, a Pashtun, to head the interim government.(World)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- December 6, 2001
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Byline: Lucian Kim Special to The Christian Science Monitor
KONIGSWINTER, GERMANY -- The youthful leaders of Afghanistan's new interim government offer a stark contrast to the long-bearded mullahs of the Taliban.
The new head of state, Hamid Karzai, a Western-oriented tribal leader fighting the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, is seen as the best hope for closing the rifts in his war-torn country while opening it to the West.
Yesterday the Pentagon reported that Mr. Karzai was slightly injured when an American B-52 bomber missed its target.
His sister, Fozia Karzai, said from Boston that after a phone call to another sibling in ...