After the Taliban  Could a Coalition Government Withstand Afghan
Rivalries?  The internecine rivalries are on full display inside
the walled compound of the Afghan National Liberation Front, an
organization set up by Sibghatullah Al-Mojaddedi, a mujahideen
who served as the first president of Afghanistan for two months
in 1992 as part of a power-sharing agreement. It was Mojaddedi
who, under duress, turned over power to Burhanuddin Rabbani, who
then refused to give up the reins, triggering a civil war that
destroyed large sections of the country before the Taliban took
control in 1996. Mojaddedi's son, Siddiqullah, the group's
director of foreign affairs, speaks dismissively of Rabbani, now
of the Northern Alliance, and the other mujahideen, Abdul Haq in
particular. "They call [Haq] the liberator of Kabul. We got to
Kabul first [in 1992] and sent an armored car to pick him up,"
he says of the warlord thought to be the favorite of the
American government.  Referring to the American effort to bring
the 86-year-