11.   Clark Bowers had an audience long before he told the world through his wife that he had been kidnapped by a tribal warlord in Afghanistan and then released.

12.   Afghan interim leader Hamid Karzai named Wardak as governor despite threats of violence from tribal warlord Padsha Khan, whom he had originally appointed to the post.

13.   Afghan interim leader Hamid Karzai named Wardak as governor despite threats of violence from tribal warlord Padsha Khan whom he had originally backed for the post.

14.   Unrest was brewing in two eastern Afghan provinces as the interim government struggled to appoint governors and settle competing claims by rival tribal warlords.

15.   Years of war against foreign invaders and among tribal warlords in and around the capital Kabul has left a disaster of near apocalyptic proportions.