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	news - Gardez
		Gardez, Afghanistan - Mohammed Naim Farouq was a thug in the lawless Zormat district of eastern Afghanistan.
		GARDEZ, Afghanistan — Mohammed Naim Farouq was a thug in the lawless Zormat district of eastern Afghanistan.
		Source: [b]News and Observer[/b] GARDEZ, Afghanistan - Mohammed Naim Farouq was a thug in the lawless Zormat district of eastern Afghanistan.
	www.wikio.co.uk /news/Gardez (832 words)

	Gardez
		Gardez is a town of 70,000 inhabitants along a river in a mountain valley at an elevation of about 7,600 feet (nearly a half-mile higher than Denver, Colo.).
		Gardez is the center of Paktia province, an area the size of South Carolina.
		The population is overwhelmingly Pashtun, and Gardez was a stronghold of the Taliban.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/afghanistan/gardez.htm (2085 words)

	Gardez :: Khyber.ORG
		Gardez is the capital of the province of Paktia and serves as the summer residence of the provincial governor, who resides in Khost during the winter.
		During the 1970s, Gardez experienced an economic boom as a result of the German-funded Paktia Development Authority, established in 1344 Hijri (1965), and of the asphalting of the road to Kabul.
		In the 10th/16th century Gardez was the headquarter of a Mughal tuman and renowned for its multi-storied houses (Qala) (Babor-nama, tr.
	www.khyber.org /places/2005/Gardez.shtml (909 words)

	Gardez – FREE Gardez Information \| Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
		The cry "gardez loo"'" used to be heard throughout the Old Town as residents...
		Spelling Bee on Thursday after she misspelled a French word, gardez, part of "gardez la dame," a phrase used as a warning when a queen is threatened...
		Though his ancestral village was located between the towns of Said Karam and Gardez, capital of Pakhtya Province, Najibullah was born in Afghanistan's capital city, Kabul.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Gardez.html (637 words)

	US Probing Alleged Murder, Torture of Afghans by US Special Forces
		Gardez police held the men for a month and a half with as many as 13 other inmates in a "secret detention room" built for five prisoners, according to the attorney general's report.
		UNAMA officials in Gardez said they knew a succession of Special Forces commanders as "Mike." The "Mike" in charge during March 2003 was so aggressive in his avowed mission to rid the country of "bad guys" that a fellow soldier called him "Crazy Mike," a UNAMA official said.
		Gardez Police Chief Mujahid told military prosecutors that when the men arrived at his jail from the American compound, many had injuries that appeared to be the result of severe impacts.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0921-27.htm (3884 words)

	Afghan warlords battle for control of Paktia province
		US warplanes were seen circling over Gardez as mortar and small arms fire rocked the rural town of some 50,000 people, and residents fled on foot and in trucks.
		The fighting appeared to be concentrated on the governor's mansion, where flashes of mortar explosions and flames lit up the sky as night fell, an AFP reporter on the outskirts of the town said.
		Whereas a member of the Gardez tribal council claimed about 300 fighters -- both Taliban and members of al-Qaeda -- are poised to launch an assault to the west of Gardez, in the Shahi Koot region of Zormat district.
	www.rawa.org /gardez.htm (698 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Courting Afghanistan Brick by Brick
		GARDEZ, Afghanistan -- While U.S. combat troops were storming mountain caves and scouring ghost villages in search of enemy fighters, another group of American soldiers plodded away all year at a less glamorous mission in violence-plagued Paktia province.
		Despite the risk, U.S. military officials said one of their major aims in establishing long-term, large operations in Gardez and other cities is to persuade international aid agencies to follow suit and return to impoverished but dangerous areas that desperately need help.
		In Gardez last week, a few residents voiced skepticism on other grounds, acknowledging that U.S. military teams have helped secure and rebuild the city, but worrying that if their presence becomes wider and more entrenched, it could turn into a full-fledged occupation like the Soviet army takeover of Afghanistan in the 1980s.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A24768-2002Dec7?language=printer (1476 words)

	Revolt shows limits of Karzai’s authority -DAWN - International; February 6, 2002
		GARDEZ (Afghanistan): More than 60 prisoners, squatting along the walls of a frigid room in a police compound overlooking this city, gazed down dejectedly as the story of their capture was told.
		Gardez, a mainly ethnic Pakhtoon city 60 miles southeast of Kabul, is not one of the important cities in Afghanistan.
		Because US Special Forces are stationed in Gardez as part of the effort to prevent Al Qaeda and Taliban fugitives from fleeing to Pakistan, the fighting raises questions about their perceived and actual roles.
	www.dawn.com /2002/02/06/int17.htm (782 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Cloak of secrecy hides abuse in Afghanistan
		GARDEZ, Afghanistan —; After completing their deployment to this remote firebase, the Green Berets of ODA 2021 left for home covered in glory.
		In Gardez, the dusty provincial capital, the ODA settled into an adobe fort the size of a football field.
		Back in Gardez, ODA 2021 was between commanders on the night of Feb. 6, 2003, when the team set out to the nearby village of Neknam to seize two men suspected of having ties to the Taliban.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2003274095_torture25.html (2410 words)

	PRTs: The Public Face Of Special Ops (Site not responding. Last check: )
		GARDEZ, Afghanistan — In a war fought mostly by secret warriors from Special Forces units, Provincial Reconstruction Teams are the friendly public face of the U.S. Special Operations Command in Afghanistan.
		Gardez was the first of six PRTs, said Col. David Bennett, Civil Affairs spokesman in Afghanistan.
		When Breckel's reservists took over at Gardez three weeks ago, they found they were going to have one, 25-person team for their huge area, down from two teams the previous rotation.
	www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,FL_ops_021204,00.html (1028 words)

	CNN.com - Karzai meeting targets Pashtun rivalries - February 3, 2002
		GARDEZ, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The special envoy of Afghanistan's interim leader, Hamid Karzai, is holding meetings in eastern Afghanistan amid an uneasy calm between two rival Pashtun forces in the provincial capital of Gardez.
		Aziz Karzai, the uncle of Hamid Karzai who is representing the leader as his special envoy, held a meeting Sunday at the Gardez residence of the military commander, Haji Ishaq.
		Gardez was the scene of fighting last week between shura forces and a rival Pashtun militia headed by Bacha Khan.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/02/03/afghan.gardez (410 words)

	US behind Afghan warlord's rise, fall - The Boston Globe
		Gardez, the provincial capital that was home to Abdullah Mujahid, has grown since his departure.
		The former head of the United Nations office in Gardez, Thomas Ruttig, said he urged the Afghan government to remove Mujahid from his post because he was seen as an uneducated, disruptive, and corrupt figure.
		US soldiers in Gardez had severely beaten a group of Afghan prisoners during an interrogation, and one of them had died, according to several former Afghan police and a report by the Afghan attorney general's office, which investigated the case.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2007/08/12/us_behind_afghan_warlords_rise_fall (3240 words)

	news-gardez1
		In Gardez, the dusty provincial capital nearly a mile and a half above sea level, the ODA settled in to an adobe fort the size of a football field.
		As Pacha Khan was leaving a confrontational meeting at the Gardez firebase, intelligence officials arranged for three jets to buzz the compound in a display of American might.
		Back in Gardez, ODA 2021 was between commanders on the night of Feb. 6, 2003, when the team set out on a “snatch mission.” The plan was to swoop into the nearby village of Neknam and seize two men suspected of ties to the Taliban.
	www.crimesofwar.org /onnews/news-gardez1.html (4770 words)

	US Fighting Al-Qa'eda Near Gardez
		Gardez is at 33 N., for the purifying Judgment of the Holy Spirit, and 69 E., for running the course.
		The elephant was associated with the US/Afghan offensive against the al-Qa'eda and Taliban in the mountains near Gardez.
		Gardez is at 33 N., for the purifying Judgment of the Holy Spirit, and 69 W., for running the course.
	www.biblenews1.com /history2/20020304.htm (1051 words)

	CNN.com - Afghan leader offers to help resolve Pashtun conflict - February 2, 2002
		Gardez remained calm for a second day Saturday, following two days of fighting between shura, or council, forces and a rival Pashtun force headed by Bacha Khan, who has been appointed acting governor of Paktia province by the Afghanistan interim administration.
		Gailani, who is in the region in an attempt to establish peace between the rival Pashtun factions, requested the militia commanders in Gardez release the elderly and injured in their custody as a gesture of goodwill.
		Gailani and his "peace convoy" returned to Gardez on Friday as negotiators from the two sides tried to settle their differences.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/02/02/afghanistan.gardez/index.html?related (422 words)

	Gardez, Afghanistan News - Topix
		GARDEZ : One security guard of an Indian road reconstruction company was killed another wounded in an overnight attack by Taliban militants in restive southeastern province of Paktia, an official said on...
		GARDEZ: Mohammed Naim Farouq was a thug in the lawless Zormat district of eastern Afghanistan.
		GARDEZ : Five security guards of an India road construction company were wounded in an attack by Taliban fighters in the southeastern Paktia province on Wednesday, officials said.
	www.topix.net /af/gardez (1089 words)

	Torture in Gardez, Big Smiles in Washington - A blog entry from 1820
		As Brown gladhands around America trying to second guess which of the candidates he should be toadying up to next, here's the shocking reality of what Britain's greatest friend has been up to: "The American Civil Liberties Union obtained documents...
		Special Operations officers in Gardez admitted to using what are known as Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) techniques, which for decades American service members experienced as training to prepare for the brutal treatment they might face if captured.
		Despite numerous witness statements describing the evidence of torture, the military's investigation concluded that the charges of torture were unsupported.
	1820.org.uk /2008/04/torture_in_gardez_big_smiles_i.shtml (373 words)

	Portsmouth Herald World/National News: Factions Fight in Eastern Afghanistan
		GARDEZ, Afghanistan — Heavy explosions, mortar and machine gun fire rocked an eastern Afghan town Thursday in the worst factional fighting since the new government took power five weeks ago.
		The fighting in Gardez, a strategic provincial capital, added urgency to calls by Afghan leader Hamid Karzai for a multinational force to expand out of the capital, Kabul, and help keep the peace other cities.
		According to Saifullah and Gardez police chief Sayd Isaq, the Americans are special forces taking part in an operation hunting al-Qaida members believed to be in mountains west of Gardez.
	www.seacoastonline.com /2002news/1_31_w2.htm (960 words)

	News: Afghanistan, Afghanistan: UN-backed pilot disarmament under way in Paktia
		The arms collection had started in Gardez on 9 November, and a total of 595 soldiers of the Afghan military forces were disarmed as of Monday, the UN said.
		Gardez's third-corps commander, Gen Monir Mohammad Ludin, the top military figure in the province, told IRIN that Paktia had already proven more secure than the other southeastern provinces, and the disarmament would further guarantee that.
		As part of Monday's ceremony, soldiers attended a parade in Gardez, which was attended by Defence Minister FM Mohammad Qasem Fahim, several generals from the defence ministry, as well as the military attaches of Japan and Canada - the major donors to the DDR effort - and senior officials of the ANBP.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/182791c9872501ffc1256de20057d7b0 (818 words)

	Caught in the Crossfire - NW-0302WTCEXC - MSNBC.com
		Earlier on Monday, we traveled west from Gardez to Zormat, the town that is closest to the scene of the latest American-led offensive against suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters.
		The Gardez doctors were planning to transport her in a truck back to Kabul; we took her instead to the U.S. base in a walled desert compound south of the town.
		Eventually, she was taken to the Gardez airfield, where we were told she’d be flown either to Bagram air base outside Kabul or to neighboring Uzbekistan.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3067266/site/newsweek (1141 words)

	washingtonpost.com: U.S. and Afghan Forces Attack Al Qaeda Refuge
		With U.S. bombers streaking overhead, at least 400 Afghan soldiers and a smaller U.S. force pushed south of Gardez, the capital of Paktia province, toward the Nariq Kandow valley, where the Americans believe hundreds of al Qaeda fighters and others loyal to the ousted Taliban government have regrouped, U.S. and Afghan officials said.
		Ehasanullah, a driver who arrived in Kabul from Gardez, said he was praying when he heard seven explosions and the sound of planes overhead.
		U.S. and Afghan troops worked to seal the area, seizing control of the main road from Gardez to the nearby city of Khost, near the Pakistan border, and setting up a checkpoint at the top of a mountain pass known as Zadran.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A30012-2002Mar2?language=printer (978 words)

	USATODAY.com - Former prisoner says he was abused in U.S. custody in Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He said the abuse occurred while he was held at a U.S. base in Gardez, a town 60 miles south of the Afghan capital.
		The alleged abuse took place between July 15 and August 20, 2003, at holding facilities in Gardez, at the southern city of Kandahar, and at the U.S. military headquarters at Bagram north of Kabul, Siddiqui said.
		In Gardez, he said, his interrogators laughed at him and said his wife and daughters were prostitutes and his sons were beggars.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-05-12-afghan-abuse-probe_x.htm (1514 words)

	Part I: A Silence in the Afghan Mountains (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Back in Gardez, ODA 2021 was between commanders on the night of Feb. 6, 2003, when the team set out on a "snatch mission." The plan was to swoop into the nearby village of Neknam and seize two men suspected of having ties to the Taliban.
		In Gardez, he was able to set his sights squarely on Pacha Khan, the warlord who had been destabilizing the countryside for months.
		At a meeting of security authorities in Gardez, Mike from ODA 2021 warned the police chief and the other local commanders that he would kill them if they released his prisoners, according to U.N. officials who reacted angrily to the blunt talk.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2006/092506O.shtml (9461 words)

	USATODAY.com - U.S. military plane crashes near Gardez (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The area is surrounded by mountains and narrow valleys and passageways.
		Wednesday's crash happened 35 miles southwest of Gardez, or about 100 miles south of the Afghan capital of Kabul.
		Gardez was known for its terrorist activity earlier this year until a spring offensive drove large numbers of al-Qaeda fighters into western Pakistan.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002/06/12/afghanistan-crash.htm (432 words)

	news-gardez2
		It would not be the only questionable death of a detainee in the custody of ODA 2021, nor the only one that leaders of the 10-man field team would fail to disclose to superiors in the Alabama National Guard’s 20th Special Forces Group.
		Waller was characterized by several 20th Group officials as deeply affected by the 9/11 attacks and having come to Afghanistan “spoiling for a fight.” In Gardez, he was able to set his sights squarely on Pacha Khan, the warlord who had been destabilizing the countryside for months.
		Pacha Khan’s men were suspected of extorting illegal payments from truckers on the road from Gardez to Khowst, supporting anti-government forces, and staging an ambush that wounded the ODA’s battalion chief during a Thanksgiving trip to Gardez.
	www.crimesofwar.org /onnews/news-gardez2.html (5310 words)

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