They can be a great contribution to the peace, security, and stability of Gardez.
He looked younger than I'd expected, too young to be the potentate of Gardez.
Audin's men were further restricted and forbidden from any contact with the Gardez shop owners.
Everyone had been discussing how to remove him from Gardez before we even arrived.
Then together we will all work for peace, security, and stability here in Gardez.
American garrisons in places such as Gardez, the capital of Paktia province, already labour under rocket attacks.
He had many powerful enemies in Gardez, and the locals despised him.
The helicopter lands in a remote camp at Gardez, where State Department aid worker Rick Carbone says the road will bring economic development.
But the most peculiar, if not spectacularly bizarre, of all of our relationships was that with Zia Audin, the local warlord in Gardez.
The first time that I'd heard of such an absurdity was during a conversation with one of our predecessors at the Gardez firebase.
Yusaf Khan, a Paktia University student who said he witnessed the Gardez airstrikes, said 28 Afghan civilians, including women and children, were wounded in the coalition attack.
The Berlin agreements provide for commissions to supervise the elections, and these have been set up in the cities of Kabul, Jalalabad, Kandahar, Herat, Gardez, Konduz, Bamian and Ghazni.
He was appointed governor of Gardez last December, but was unable to take up office after the local population made it clear his past was too shady for their taste.
Audin was trying to find a way to hold on to some scrap of his power and prestige, while we tried to disabuse him of the notion that he had any future in Gardez.
Theoretically the purpose of this visit was to discuss ways to coordinate our efforts at stabilizing the area around Gardez, but the reality was that lunch provided us all an opportunity to size each other up.
The few men that he still controlled were encamped at several different bases around the city, but his real power emanated from the Bala Hissar, or Castle Greyskull as we called it, a massive fortification built by the British in the nineteenth century in the middle of Gardez.
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