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...Inside there were weapons everywhere, draped from every shoulder, positioned on every roof; far more than in similar posts in Kandahar. District commander Haji Abdul Mohammed granted us an audience, surrounded by his curious soldiers in black turbans (one carrying an M-16 made in Kentucky in 1975) and his senior lieutenants in white turbans. Haji Abdul is quite an old man, his beard more grey than black. He told us Rais the Baghran began surrendering eight days ago. The day before troops from this outpost accompanied 20 U.S. Special Forces and governor Haji Shir Mohammed as far north towards...
...mujahid who fought long against the Taliban, Haji Abdul is nonetheless from this district, and his ties here show in his stance toward the local Taliban. "All of the Taliban soldiers were from our tribes; they were not criminals," he said, meaning there were no foreign Taliban among them. When he assumed command in Musa Qal'eh one month ago there was no Taliban resistance, despite northern Helmand being one of their strongest centers. The lack of resistance is not because their forces withdrew. "They are still living here," said Haji Abdul. "The Afghan Taliban are our relatives, our brothers...
...frontier town of Kohat. "We are well geared up," he says. Last week the Pakistanis handed over Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, al-Qaeda's chief terrorist trainer, to the U.S. military in Kandahar. They also deported back to Afghanistan the Taliban's former ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef. He is now in U.S. custody...
...area where cooking pots are a major expense. It maintained close ties with local Pashtun tribal leaders. There was relative peace. Now those same villages, scattered over hundreds of square kilometers of lawless and rugged mountains, are providing haven for Al-Qaeda fighters on the run. A commander named Abdul Basir says he caught five wounded Arabs in a place called Seliman Khil three days after they had be routed from their camps. "Al-Qaeda pays a lot of money to the people there, so they protect them," he says...
...million in charges from 1993 to 1999. He faces up to three years in prison. CAPTURED. JOHN PHILIP WALKER LINDH, 20, an American who was among 80 Taliban survivors of the Qala-i-Jangi prison revolt; in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. Lindh, who gave his name as Abdul Hamid, converted to Islam at 16 and traveled to northern Pakistan via Yemen to study Arabic and the Koran, where his divorced parents had lost touch with him. He faces possible charges of treason, but cannot be tried by the U.S. special military tribunals...