Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nothing. What do you expect of us? That we turn the other cheek?" Adds a colleague, "Ali": "We have reached the conclusion that preaching about national unity is not going to achieve anything. We have to do it the way others did, in Sudan, Afghanistan and Iran...
Osama Bin Laden won't be playing dominoes with the Unabomber any time soon. His hosts, the Taliban, are distinctly unimpressed by the $5 million bounty offered by the U.S., and vowed Thursday that the terrorist mastermind wouldn't be extradited. Still, money does talk in Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia's talks loudest: "The Taliban can't operate without Saudi funding, particularly now that they're planning a spring offensive against their opposition," says TIME New Delhi bureau chief Tim McGirk. "Saudi Arabia is putting immense pressure on the Taliban to expel Bin Laden, and there's a good chance...
...also surprised at your limited take on international terrorism. The United States was completely justified in bombing terrorist targets in Afghanistan and Sudan, since these nations do indeed have a highly developed military-industrial complex which supports the spread of terror. Do several well-organized camps supplied by international trade routes and backed up by billions of dollars not fit into a definition of "highly developed...
...look at the other possibility: the State Department just doesn't know how things work in other countries. This hypothesis is borne out by the recent bombing of Afghanistan and Sudan. These attacks were supposed to counter terrorism by impairing the physical resources of terrorists. But most terrorists do not have a highly developed military-industrial complex, the destruction of which would significantly diminish their ability to commit acts of terrorism...
...talk, titled "The Missiles of August," Hersh explained why he thought the bombing of the sites in Afghanistan and Sudan on Aug. 20 was a mistake...