The following article ran as part of an eight-part series by Jon Sawyer, originally published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch June 6-24, 2004. Creating an independent, noncorrupt police force in a...

The following article ran as part of an eight-part series by Jon Sawyer, originally published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch June 6-24, 2004. The elders and businessmen sitting cross-legged on mats...

The following article ran as part of an eight-part series by Jon Sawyer, originally published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch June 6-24, 2004. The satellite connection was a little shaky. A wind storm...

The following article ran as part of an eight-part series by Jon Sawyer, originally published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch June 6-24, 2004. As he patrols the western outskirts of Afghanistan's...

The following article ran as part of an eight-part series by Jon Sawyer, originally published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch June 6-24, 2004. On a hot and dusty plain just south of Kabul, as trucks...

The following article ran as part of an eight-part series by Jon Sawyer, originally published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch June 6-24, 2004. Commander Mohammed Malangyar says that after 25 years of...

The following article ran as part of an eight-part series by Jon Sawyer, originally published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch June 6-24, 2004. In a parched mud-hut village, in a place where the wells...

The following article ran as part of an eight-part series by Jon Sawyer, originally published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch June 6-24, 2004. The otherwise drab metal gate that marks the entrance to...