STEVE INSKEEP, host: Afghanistan is preparing for the meeting of its new parliament.  Four      years after the overthrow of the Taliban, the Afghan parliament meets for      the first time on Monday.  This is the latest step in the effort to bring      democracy to the country following decades of war.  Now one reporter in      Kabul describes the lineup of the Parliament as a who's who of      protagonists of the bloody past. Some of those same warlords and gunmen      won seats in the legislature, which is disappointing to some new      politicians who hope to limit the warlords' influence.  The hope is that      Afghans will find ways to overcome the differences that they fought out      in coups and on battlefields since the 1970s.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News.
Four years after the overthrow of the Taliban, a new Afghan parliament will meet for the first time on Monday. The meeting is the latest step in a plan to bring democracy to the country after three decades of conflict.