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...done since September 11 has made getting bin Laden a major objective of the exercise - from leaflets dropped all over Afghanistan offering a $25 million reward for his capture and Pentagon updates over his likely whereabouts to the White House releasing last week's tape to convince the Arab world of his guilt on what many anticipated was the eve of his demise at Tora Bora...
...strikes. American special-ops forces joined the anti-Taliban forces commanded by Karzai and Ghul Agha Sherzai, and the merged units closed in on the city from the east and north. Sherzai's 700 men advanced as far as the Kandahar airport before encountering fire from Taliban and foreign Arab fighters making their last stand. During bombing lulls, Taliban soldiers hauled their dead comrades out of the trenches before ushering in new fighters. Those trying to run away were shot in the legs by their commanders...
There are said to be 200 Arab fighters at Kandahar airport surrounded by anti-Taliban forces. I'm told they are in the terminal building. But the anti-Taliban troops won't call in air strikes because they don't want to destroy the terminal building. They want something left for themselves...
...Hamas' power. Having been sweet-talked into helping with finances, Iran now provides some $20 million to $30 million a year, according to a Western diplomat in Tehran. Cash also flows in from Islamic charities and wealthy private backers in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states. Officials around the Arab world acknowledge that their citizens contribute to Hamas, but they tend to justify the group's operations as legitimate resistance to the continued Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. Says Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal: "Someone who is fighting for the liberation of his country is not a terrorist...
...bomb Afghan cities out of a need for revenge. The foreigners in the Arab al-Qaeda forces infested Afghanistan in order to be trained to commit terrorist acts; they are not innocents. The innocents were those people who died in New York City, Washington and western Pennsylvania. Compassion is always preferable to revenge, but true compassion demands justice. THOMAS KRAEMER Woodbury...