WASHINGTON, Sept. 5, 2007 – In Afghanistan’s “strategic province” of Khowst, enhanced cooperation between coalition and Afghan forces, increased funding from Congress, and improved governance are “mutually reinforcing each other,” the commander of the Khowst Provincial Reconstruction Team said today. Khowst, home to some 1 million Afghans, is strategic due to its long political and military history, Navy Cmdr. Kevin Adams told reporters during a briefing at the Pentagon. The province, located roughly 100 miles southeast of the Afghan capital of Kabul, shares an eastern border with Pakistan and holds former links to al Qaeda. In 1998, then-President Clinton bombed...