The city no longer has a functioning government, with officials either dead, missing or bereaved.
Some are confidential to "avoid the frustration of a legitimate government function," officials said.
The operation so completely failed to uproot the Taliban or build a functioning government that American officials became convinced that withdrawal would lead to total collapse — and that collapse would be unacceptably costly.
The amount seized was small, measured in grams, so nowhere near the 25kg minimum needed for a functioning bomb, but Georgian officials said the gang was offering the HEU as a sample of a bigger quantity available for purchase.
If opposition leaders are able to present their group at the Morocco meeting as a functioning organization, one senior American official said, recognition by the United States might follow at the gathering, a conference of more than 70 nations that is to be held in Marrakesh.
Refugee processing would not be affected because a different unit handles that function, officials said.
According to EO function officials, organizations may not understand what constitutes political campaign intervention or may provide vague descriptions of certain activities that the EO function knows from past experience potentially involve political campaign intervention.
Either way, and although he received two or three government commissions during his life, Daumier also helped bring forth the notion of the avant-garde, of art as an oppositional activity, functioning without official sanction from government or academy.
Last year politicians in Rajasthan called for the state's chief minister to resign after she planted a friendly kiss on a businesswoman at an official function in Delhi.
On the night of 2 May 1994 I was crammed into a function room full of officials, activists, diplomats and journalists, struggling to hear each other as the music pulsed and the cheers rang out.
By Adam Gopnik October 30, 2013 Only two offices in American political life have a double function, one official and the other ceremonial, offering, and demanding, a second role that everyone knows about, but no one quite articulates.
