Free Republic

KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 18, 2005 (AP Online delivered by Newstex) -- Sayyad Mohammad Muhsin, a former militia fighter, came ready for his new role in parliament with his goals handwritten on both sides of a small sheet of paper. "The people in my province are very poor; they have no roads, they have no good schools," Muhsin read, speaking at an orientation for new parliamentarians earlier this month. "We must put the ethnic arguments and other differences behind us ... Now is the time to sit together and solve the problems of our people." After its inauguration Monday, Afghanistan's first...