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The U.S. government has increased the number of U.S. troops from 11,000 to 20,000 in the hope of destroying the remnants of the Taliban in the south and hunting down Al Qaeda's leader Osama bin Laden. But while the U.S. continues to battle with radical militias and terrorists, security in Afghanistan is coming apart. The Afghani interim government, headed by President Hamid Karzai, has limited control over only the capital area of Kabul. The government, working closely with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, recently initiated a programme to disarm soldiers of the numerous militias that have fought different enemies over the years, including the Soviet Union in the 1980s and, later, the Taliban.