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Faulty intelligence has long dogged U.S. efforts to restore peace in Afghanistan. While U.S. forces are still trying to track down Osama bin Laden and the remnants of al-Qaeda, the quarry is increasingly a resurgent Taliban. Two years after the government in Kabul was routed, black-turbaned militants are again stalking the dusty villages and towns of the Pashtun heartland. High-ranking Afghan sources tell TIME that the Taliban is trying to unite with the Pashtuns under one leadership. A core of 250 Taliban veterans is recruiting a fresh generation of young zealots from the refugee camps and madrasahs...
...apologized for the deaths of the children and promise full investigations of the circumstances. But that doesn't address the larger problem of how to gather intelligence accurate enough to target wanted terrorists and minimize innocent deaths. A senior U.S. intelligence official concedes that the problem is unsolved: Hekmatyar, bin Laden and former Taliban leader Mullah Omar are all still at large. "The results speak for themselves," the official says. And the job may only get harder. In his videotape, Hekmatyar warns his followers not to use sat phones, seeking to deny the Americans even their advantage from overhead. --With...
...having the PETA woman on the show made listeners think I was a liberal. A caller said the PETA rep was a terrorist, which I agreed with, since the organization totally disrupted last year's Victoria's Secret fashion show. Then he said she was the same as Osama bin Laden. I questioned that, mostly because PETA hasn't killed anyone. He said that all terrorists were equal and that parsing out evil made me a sympathizer. I questioned his epistemology, at which point he called me a "stupid liberal kike," which caused the switchboard guy to hang...
...school, whom police allege has links to JI, disappeared in November last year.) Indeed, one of JI's greatest strengths is that its cells function as independent, clandestine units with scant knowledge of the rest of the organization. After his arrest in April, one top JI militant, Mohamad Nasir bin Abas, explained to police, "There can be members of JI who don't even know the name of the emir [leader]. They don't even know the name of the organization...
...tied up one loose end in Iraq with its capture of Saddam, the administration must keep in mind that its larger objective in Iraq—to build a vibrant democracy where only the heel of repression has existed—and the important objective of capturing Osama bin Laden, a man whose terrorist network continues to pose a grave threat to America, are, as yet, unaccomplished...