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...filled with casualties, the only troops killed, Alokzai said, were boys "left behind at the airport as night watchmen." Where once 10,000 Taliban supporters had gathered to pray in the Halqa Cherif mosque, now fewer than a hundred did. In the town, the Taliban's exodus left its Arab sympathizers at the mercy of the townsfolk; at least three were murdered for their watches and motorcycles. But the Taliban was preparing to fight. On just one day, more than 45 trucks left Kandahar for redoubts in the high mountains. They were filled with guns and ammunition...
...trucking-school executive has given the FBI a promising lead: 25 to 35 Arab men attended a Denver school in small groups over the past two years. Each student paid cash for the program--and none sought job placement afterward. Because none of the students spoke English, they were accompanied by an interpreter, the same person for each group. Even though English proficiency is a license requirement, all the Arab students received driver's licenses, trucking sources say. (It's not clear how they passed the written test, which is in English.) Charlie Tweedy, the owner of Careers Worldwide...
...nimble performance, helped by the fact that few burdens weigh him down. Blair faces scant political opposition; his staff is a tiny band of veterans; and his campaign to win hearts and minds around the world, including instant rebuttals of bin Laden on Arab TV, follows a groove worn deep in the relentless political campaigns of New Labour. Britons wonder if "President Blair" is getting so engrossed in global architecture that he'll flub his promise to fix rotten schools and hospitals at home. But the mounting complaints before Sept. 11 about his sanctimony, slickness and control freakery have been...
Much of the responsibility for postwar Afghanistan is expected to fall on the U.N. and its newly named envoy to Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi. Bush, the Europeans, the Arab nations and Afghanistan's neighbors now say the international body should take the lead in postwar Afghanistan...
...antagonize Israelis against Arafat and the Palestinian Authority. But Arafat has put himself in this situation. There is an old Arab saying that you shouldn't play with cats unless you're prepared to accept scratches on your hands. You can't work with radical groups who are conducting terror attacks and then expect them to stop when you say "stop!" It's not that easy...