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Nov-24-01, 04:00 PM (ET)
"Declassified Files Profile Afghan King"
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(This could go in General or BN, but I went ahead with BN. But if I'm wrong I'm sorry.)

Declassified Files Profile Afghan King

Declassified U.S. documents from his last years as king of Afghanistan portray Mohammad Zaher Shah as an aloof leader reigning over a nation with declining morale and a feeling of hopelessness.

Still, the grandfatherly figure who ruled Afghanistan for four decades now is viewed by many as a symbol of unity for a nation fractured by war and ethnic power struggles.

The 87-year-old former king plans to send a delegation to U.N.-brokered power-sharing talks in Germany next week on Afghanistan's post-Taliban leadership. And the United States and its coalition partners in the war on terrorism hope that Zaher Shah could assume a leadership role, at least as a symbolic figure in a future Afghan government.

Zaher Shah ruled for 40 years before being ousted in a 1973 coup. He now lives in Rome and says he does not want to return to the throne, but hopes to unite the Afghan people and help them establish a representative government.

"He wasn't a very effective leader," said Fiona Hill, an expert on Central Asia at the Brookings Institution in Washington. "But you have to remember that this guy was born into this.

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http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-attacks-former-king1124nov24.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dpolitics%2Dheadlines


Excerpts From Ex-Afghan King Files

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-attacks-king-excerpts1124nov23.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dpolitics%2Dheadlines

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1. "40 years... that's pretty successful"
by Afghan standards...

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