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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, April 11 (UPI) -- British Army Gurkhas have rescued an Afghan governor from a mansion overrun by forces loyal to a local warlord, the London Telegraph reported Sunday.
The newspaper reported that as crowds rampaged through the grounds last week, eight men of the Royal Gurkha Rifles battled through the melee into the mansion where Enayatullah Enayat, the governor of the remote Faryab Province, had taken refuge. Even as they reached the governor, troops loyal to regional strongman Abdul Rashid Dostum set fire to the Gurkhas' vehicle outside the front gate, forcing the British troops to take Enayat out a back window.
Gen. Dostum is a renegade adviser to President Hamid Karzai, and is armed and funded by the United States. It was the second time in a month that a warlord had provoked a confrontation with the Afghan government.
The U.S. backing for Gen. Dostum in return for fighting al Qaida and the Taliban have fueled criticism that America's support of warlords is destabilizing the Karzai regime.
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