Enmity runs deep between Taliban, Shiites
By JAMES RUPERT, Newsday YAKAOLANG, Afghanistan — The white-bearded elders of Bedmushkin tremble when they recall Jan 8. That was the day that Taliban fighters came to the village after having won a difficult battle against a militia of the ethnic Hazaras who inhabit this harsh, mountainous center of Afghanistan. The Taliban swept through the [...]
