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	khost (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Khost, sometimes spelt Khowst, is a town in Afghanistan, located at 33.3° North 69.9° East.
		The town of Khost is the capital of Khost province, a mountainous region near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan.
		Khost's airstrip, with its 9000 ft runway, served as a base for helicopter operations for both the Soviet and later US armies.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /khost.html (149 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Traditions, Terrorism Threaten Afghan Vote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		KHOST, Afghanistan -- At a village mosque, a leaflet printed in neat Pashto script was found last week, instructing "all good Muslim citizens" to stay away from government buildings, foreign troops and official funerals.
		Yet Khost city, the provincial capital, is also home to a year-old university full of progressive students and professors who have brought new ideas from Kabul or from their lives as exiles abroad.
		Sharif Zadran, who teaches history at Khost University and is married to Sahira, said he was proud of his wife's efforts to promote voting among women but had come under considerable pressure from his relatives to stop her high-profile activism.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A13914-2004Jun3?language=printer (1321 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The area around the town of Khost in eastern Afghanistan, near the border with Pakistan, is where American-led forces are concentrating a lot of attention in the hunt for Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters.
		Khost is also a place where U.S. special forces are training Afghans themselves to help in the fight against Al-Qaeda.
		In Khost, Bacha Khan's forces outgun their rivals, however, and it is his men -- armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades -- who patrol the town's streets in pickup trucks.
	www.rferl.org /nca/features/2002/04/08042002090002.asp (1495 words)

	washingtonpost.com: A Shadow Looms Over Afghan City's Revival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the streets of Khost, the departure of Bacha Khan's abusive gunmen was as welcome as that of the Taliban's dreaded religious police force.
		At first, new students said they were greeted with stares and catcalls on the streets of Khost after their leaders donned khaki trousers and dark jackets donated by the local U.S. civil-military program.
		In all of Khost province, there is no school for girls beyond seventh grade; none was ever considered necessary.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A3953-2002Dec17?language=printer (1453 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. soldier killed in convoy attack - Feb. 13, 2004
		In Khost, at least two Afghans were killed and six wounded in an explosion at a government military post near the former Taliban stronghold in southeastern Afghanistan, police said.
		The attacks in Khost are the latest in a wave of incidents which more than 550 people have been killed in the last six months, mostly in southern and eastern Afghanistan where the Taliban militia remnants are most active.
		Khost used to be part of the heartland of the Taliban, overthrown by U.S.-led troops for harboring Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network.
	cnn.com /2004/WORLD/asiapcf/02/13/afghanistan.deaths.reut (373 words)

	Institute for War and Peace Reporting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The clans from around the eastern Afghan city of Khost who gathered late last month to choose delegates for the Loya Jirga, the national assembly that is to appoint the nation's next government, were left in doubt about the need for the creation of a strong central authority.
		Khost was peaceful under the austere rule of the Taleban but since their defeat by the US-led forces, residents to their dismay have seen the city sinking back to the chaos of a decade ago.
		Regional clan members had gathered in the city of Khost to choose their representatives to the Afghan assembly, which is to decide on a successor to the Karzai-led administration that was appointed to rule for six months.
	www.iwpr.net /index.pl?archive/arr/arr_200205_4_1_eng.txt (892 words)

	Khost / Khowst Afghanistan
		Khost is located about 150 kilometers south of Kabul and 100 kilometers from Gardez, in Paktia Province in eastern Afghanistan.
		The American base in Khost, about 20 miles from the Pakistani border, came under attack on the morning of March 20, and the ensuing firefight lasted more than an hour.
		Chapman Airfield is three [or six] kilometers away from Camp Salerno, in the province of Khost, close to the border with Pakistan.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/afghanistan/khowst_afld.htm (743 words)

	AFGHAN BOOKS - - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Khost was surrounded by mountains in which sat the Mujahideen.
		From there operations against Khost were planned and conducted; it was a Mujahideen centre for training recruits on both small arms and heavy weapons; it was the focal point of what was regarded as a liberated area, where a sort of mini-government had been set up, courts were held and delegations and journalists were received.
		Khost would provide a convenient jump-off point, but the bulk of the troops would have come from elsewhere.
	www.afghanbooks.com /beartrap/english/14.htm (5488 words)

	UNHCR \| Print this document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		KHOST, Afghanistan, May 3 (UNHCR) – More than 1,000 internally displaced Afghans have returned to their home areas from south-eastern Khost province in a series of convoys organised by the UN refugee agency and its partners in a nationwide effort to boost stability in Afghanistan.
		Before leaving Khost town, Tor Paki and the more than 600 Afghans returning last week received food aid and other assistance items and were medically screened by IOM doctors.
		Before the convoys leave Khost, UN refugee agency workers meet with the Afghans to understand their motivations and to ensure that they know about the rehabilitation needs and the human rights situation in their home areas.
	www.unhcr.ch /cgi-bin/texis/vtx/print?tbl=NEWS&id=409668244 (926 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Dawn raids stoke fires of resentment
		These new voices of criticism have reached the grey-brick compound in Khost where the provincial government is base and Mohammad Khan Gulbaz is a senior official representing President Hamid Karzai's national government, which is publicly still effusive in its support of the US military presence.
		Khost was one of the strongest areas of mojahedin resistance during the Soviet occupation of the 1980s.
		He believes the problems began when paratroopers from the 82nd airborne division were sent to Khost and Gardez to take part in patrols and raids which, until then, had been the preserve of highly experienced US special forces troops.
	www.guardian.co.uk /afghanistan/story/0,1284,806525,00.html (1491 words)

	GN Online: Warlord forced to flee into hills - official
		Eyewitnesses said that Khost city was under attack from different directions, as the militia supporting Zadran pounded the residential areas with rockets and missiles.
		Fighting erupted after the self-declared governor of Khost, Zadran was replaced by Kabul and Abdul Hakeem Taniwal appointed as the new governor of the province.
		He was quoted as saying that the situation in the Pashtun- dominated eastern provinces of Afghanistan was part of the conspiracy against the Pashtuns, whom he said, have been ousted from the federal government one by one by powerful elements in Karzai-led Afghan government.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=62791 (755 words)

	Tribal tensions may benefit Taliban -DAWN - International; 25 February, 2004
		KHOST: Until now, the powers of Pushtun tribal leaders in the southeastern province of Khost have held Muslim fundamentalist Taliban forces at bay, but growing tensions within the tribes could upset this balance.
		Despite being bracketed by the border with the loosely-governed Pakistani tribal zone to the east and a mountainous range believed to be inhabited by Taliban and other Al Qaeda operatives to the west, Khost seems to have been spared the guerrilla attacks visited on the neighbouring province of Paktika to the south.
		"Khost is a very traditional society where the support of the tribes is the major political determinant," says Amir Shah Kargar spokesman for a local non-government agency.
	www.dawn.com /2004/02/25/int9.htm (587 words)

	Evidence of Al Qaeda spy ring in key Afghan roles \| csmonitor.com
		Khost is not the only province with former Taliban officials in government positions - under a general amnesty, all but top Taliban officials have been allowed to reenter society.
		But at its heart, the Khost intelligence debacle is about the US military's difficulty in choosing friends and Afghanistan's difficulty in putting ideological enemies together in the cause of rebuilding a nation.
		While civil and military officials in Khost say he was the Taliban's intelligence chief, Hazratuddin insists he was merely a businessman in the western city of Herat.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0428/p01s03-wosc.html (1247 words)

	FT.com - Special Reports / Attack on Terrorism
		Khost borders Paktia province, where the US fought a bloody 17-day battle that ended this week, and many guerrillas are believed to have escaped to Khost.
		Ayub Khan, a Khost militia commander, said US forces had pinpointed the positions of attackers and had begun air strikes.
		The tribal situation in Khost province is riven with rivalries and blood feuds.
	specials.ft.com /attackonterrorism/FT3SPH6T1ZC.html (557 words)

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	CTV.ca - Rival factions battle for third day near Khost- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
		Residents in the nearby city of Khost were warned to leave the area.
		Gorbuz said shops in Khost were open and the city was calm.
		The area, southeast of Kabul, is one of the most active fronts in the U.S.-led war against al-Qaida and the Taliban.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1031652275649_165?hub=World&subhub=PrintStory (381 words)

	TIMEasia.com: News -- Standing Their Ground (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A group of U.S. special forces discovered Khost's dark side several weeks ago when it was ambushed in the city, suffering one dead and another injured.
		The new rulers of Khost are hosting and helping U.S. special forces, but their main concern is to restore their own power after decades in exile.
		Seven brothers from the Zadran clan, aged from 17 to their late fifties, control the key positions of power in Khost and the whole of the two surrounding provinces of Paktia and Paktika.
	www.time.com /time/asia/news/magazine/0,9754,195398,00.html (922 words)

	Heavy US, Italian Casualties In Afghanistan - Reports
		KHOST (AZZAM): A remotely controlled rocket attack was launched at Khost's older airport by the Mujahideen.
		KHOST (AZZAM): Coalition forces fired rockets at the home of Maulvi Jalaluddin in Khost and in Israeli-style evacuation,grazed the house to the ground using bombs and rockets.
		The attack occurred in the Pak-Afghan border area east of Khost airport as the vehicles were heading to Dubgee camp.
	www.rense.com /general38/heavy.htm (1845 words)

	روزنامه اسلام - Islaam News
		Khost (NNI): In Afghanistan at least 16 US commandos were killed and several others injured in a rocket attack at Bagh Saroo airport in Khost province.
		Khost (Islaam's Correspondant): The report from Khost says that the Mujahideen fired three missiles on the American base in the Tanai region of Khost, killing atleast 5 American soldiers and injuring about seven others.
		Khost (Islaam News): The american forces have started an operation against the Taliban, the 'Arab Mujahideen and the Hizb i Islaami in the Southern provinces Khost, Paktika and Kunar.
	web.pitas.com /dailyislaam/october_03.html (5536 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Afghan warlord says his troops surround Khost, pledges to seize city
		Khan said he was intent on seizing control of the city from the official governor of Khost province Hakeem Taniwal after his men were forced out of the governor's office over the weekend during mediation talks with the US military.
		But he denied Khan was in a position to seize control of Khost.
		His followers had been occupying the official governor's residence in Khost while Taniwal, who was appointed by President Hamid Karzai, has been forced to base himself in a building on the other side of town.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/e48d7dcb122eae6f49256c310016eb35 (663 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Taleban coming in from the cold
		They are former members of the Taleban, allowed to return to their homes in Khost under a low-key reconciliation initiative here, involving the US military and local Afghan officials.
		The Khost provincial governor, Mirajuddin Pathan, agrees and says through his contacts he believes "there are many Taleban who want to come home".
		Yet several Taleban figures the BBC spoke to in Khost said support for continuing the battle against the Americans is waning.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/4360965.stm (1266 words)

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		And the territory targeted last week, a set of six encampments around Khost, where the Saudi exile Osama bin Laden has financed a kind of "terrorist university," in the words of a senior United States intelligence official, is well known to the Central Intelligence Agency.
		Soviet accounts of the siege of Khost during 1988 referred to the rebel camps as "the last word in NATO engineering techniques." After a decade of fighting during which each side claimed to have killed thousands of the enemy, the Afghan rebels poured out of their encampments and took Khost.
		He said in an interview with CNN last year that one of his main missions during the war, which he helped finance with millions of dollars of his own money, was to transport bulldozers, front-end loaders and other heavy equipment to Pakistan to help build tunnels, military depots and roads inside Afghanistan for the mujahedeen.
	emperors-clothes.com /docs/camps.htm (1199 words)

	RETURN TO AFGHANISTAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		If she had a sewing machine, she said, she could teach tailoring to other women as well.
		Naguli said that he was accepted by people in Khost, but now he wants to go back to where he was born.
		Located behind Khost's customs house is a makeshift encampment that hosts more than 9,500 displaced Afghans.
	www.unhcr.ch /cgi-bin/texis/vtx/afghan?page=news&id=409668244 (926 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| Dilemma over Afghan aid payouts
		The people of one ramshackle village near Khost in eastern Afghanistan were effusive in their thanks to the US troops.
		A day after the villagers in Khost received the money for their new school, the same company of Marines was on a very different mission 10 miles to the west.
		The Marines based in Khost have spent almost $1m to build schools, clinics, wells, irrigation systems and the first plumbing systems in several villages in the past six months.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/3995759.stm (862 words)

	Series of EmergencyNet News Reports Concerning Allied Retaliatory Strikes Against Afghanistan: 20 Oct to 23 March 2002
		Khost is at the southeastern end of the valley where the recent Operation Anaconda was staged.
		The attack on Khost came less than a day after gunmen challenging the authority of the city's newly- appointed police chief shot at security forces, killing one person and injuring three others.
		Khost is close to the Pakistani border in an area of strong support for the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
	www.emergency.com /2001/enduring-freedom.htm (18842 words)

	ummahnews.com \|\| Original Accurate News for the Ummah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It also reported that the people of Khost had started migrating to safer places because forces of both the commanders had taken positions in their trenches.
		It was reported that the military base of the US forces also came under rocket attack in southern Afghanistan, but the details of the loss could not be gleaned.
		The old Khost airport, where the American forces are staying, was fired at with a rocket from Khirseen area by unidentified gunmen.
	www.ummahnews.com /viewarticle.php?sid=856 (278 words)

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