In Kunduz Medic comforted medic as a comrade was evacuated by helicopter after losing a leg to a mine. Damon Winter/The New York TimesThe Endgame In Afghanistan -- New York Times
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan — The general arrived late, but in style, bursting into a meeting with American commanders dressed in leather bomber jacket, riding boots and creased corduroys. To his critics, he was a warlord in uniform. But on this February day, he radiated the sly charisma of a congressman on the stump.
This was my introduction to Gen. Abdul Rahman Saidkhail, the police chief of Kunduz Province. When he first came to Kunduz last summer, replacing a more cautious commander, the province seemed to be slipping into chaos, with insurgents and criminal gangs controlling nearly as much real estate as the government.
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