The Once and Future King?

摘要

Sitting in his villa outside Rome, Afghanistan's exiled king, Zahir Shah,86,told Newsweek's Lally Weymouth in an exclusive interview that he is eager to return to the land of his birth. Ousted from power in 1973 after a40-year rule, Zahir Shah calls himself a peacemaker. But outsiders hope he will help inspire a revolt against Afghanistan's Taliban regime, the government shielding Osama bin Laden. This week, in an address to the Afghan people, the king will call for closing terrorist training camps and expelling foreign militants-a clear warning to the Taliban and bin Laden.