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When he arrived in Afghanistan, they controlled much of the country, but key centers, including Kabul, were still held by rival warlords.
The fighting brought none of the usual spoils of war that provincial warlords and samurai had come to expect as payment.
In an interview with Le Figaro , Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky--the man known as the "Rasputin of the Kremlin" because of his allegedly central role in all major political maneuvers in Russia--denied that he has ever supported the Chechen warlords and blamed them for the recent wave of terrorist bomb attacks.
He proposed inserting CIA teams into Afghanistan to work with Afghan warlords who would join the fight against al Qaeda.
Both the NYT and WP front stories about the self-proclaimed Republic of Somaliland, which broke off from Somalia five years ago to escape the daily fighting between warlords there.