1.   Brahimi was unable to meet Karzai on Tuesday because the new leader was busy trying to work out a power-sharing arrangement among feuding tribes in Kandahar.

2.   He now faces the task of continuing to rebuild a nation shattered by war and unifying its feuding tribes and warlords.

3.   To guarantee their cooperation with mediators, the two feuding tribes might have to deposit a couple cars and a couple hundred Kalashnikov rifles in storage.

4.   In this land of feuding tribes and clans, the new central leadership is too weak to risk alienating ordinary Afghan farmers.

5.   Police battling to contain clashes between two feuding tribes opened fire into a crowd Thursday, killing one man and wounding several others, police said.