Before Doug Wankel could do anything in Uruzgan, he had to talk to the Dutch.
Wankel was on his back, and both his legs were pinned under the vehicle.
Wankel, who is sixty-one and has piercing blue eyes, was stationed in Kabul as a young D.
Wankel was in Uruzgan to oversee a poppy-eradication campaign the first major effort to disrupt the harvest in the province.
They'd lived through more than one "revolutionary" power train--Wankel engines, gas-turbine engines, batteries.
The last serious attempt, Felix Wankel's rotary engine, lingers on in Mazda's sports cars and is also used to power snowmobiles.
Wankel and Trammell and a group of men, guns drawn, walked down into the fields below, a checkerboard of green wheat and luxuriant poppies.
They stumbled toward us, clutching plastic water bottles and their gear, and were introduced to Doug Wankel, who led the way down the hill.
Limping, but managing without crutches, Doug Wankel reappeared the next morning.
Wankel apologized, then commented that it was only one small section.
The councillor told Wankel that he would not accompany the men if they went on that side of the road, nor could he guarantee their safety.
Wankel was told that a sister of the governor had died or fallen ill there were several versions but nobody believed this was the real reason for his absence.
Before he could continue, Wankel cut him off, and announced that President Karzai and the Afghan minister of defense had been informed about the attack on the team.
A. and then with the State Department, Wankel helped create the Afghan Eradication Force, with troops of the Afghan National Police drawn from the Ministry of the Interior.
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Doug Wankel walked up to an angry-looking farmer who was watching his field being destroyed and asked him, through an interpreter named Nazeem, how much he got for his opium.
Someone brought a stretcher, and Wankel, managing a pained smile, was carefully loaded onto it and carried to one of the choppers, which would fly him to the Tirin Kot base.
Wankel had attended a shura, or council of local elders, a few days before, to explain the mission, and a small group of local Pashtun policemen were on hand, but the A.E.
Wankel had flown in from Kabul five days earlier to meet with the governor of Uruzgan, Abdul Hakim Munib, about the eradication operation, only to discover that Munib had left for Kabul the day before.
One afternoon this spring, at the height of the harvest, I drove through the area with Douglas Wankel, a former Drug Enforcement Administration official who was hired by the United States government in 2003 to organize its counter-narcotics effort here.
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