For years, ethnic warlords have pushed each other from power in Chad with backing from neighbors like Libya and Sudan.
The reversion to racial politics prompted by the Arizona law ultimately does no good for anyone except "base-oriented" partisan campaign consultants, nativists and ethnic warlords.
In Afghanistan before 9/11, Mr. Bout had long supplied Ahmed Shah Massoud, the ethnic Tajik warlord who spent years fighting the Taliban.
But hundreds remained in the jails of commanders from the Northern Alliance faction like Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, the ethnic Uzbek warlord.
Most notable among those are Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, an ethnic Uzbek warlord, and Burhanuddin Rabbani, an ethnic Tajik and the president of the Northern Alliance.
The attack on the city involved three groups of Northern Alliance forces: fighters led by Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, the ethnic Uzbek warlord; fighters led by Cmdr.
The prisoners are being interrogated by United States investigators, but their jailer is Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, Afghanistan's new deputy defense minister and an ethnic Uzbek warlord whose reputation for brutality has been well documented over the last 20 years.
Reports of Iranian weapons moving into Helmand and Herat Provinces have alarmed the local government here and increased mistrust of Ismail Khan, an ethnic Tajik warlord who is the governor of Herat and has nominal control of five northwestern provinces under an unofficial system that divides the country into five military zones.
The ethnic-Tajik Muhammad Fahim is running as Karzai's first vice president (having previously served in the same post and as defense minister); the ethnic-Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum is returning from Turkey to deliver Uzbek votes to Karzai; and the ethnic-Hazara politician Muhammad Mohaqiq is a key Karzai ally to whom Karzai pledged five ministerial posts.
Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, the ethnic-Uzbek warlord at Karzai's right hand, has been the subject of renewed inquiry this week after a New York Times investigation pushed the Dasht-i-Leili massacre, the secret November 2001 murders of at least 1,000 surrendered Taliban prisoners, back into the headlines.
