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BIOTERRORISM: "Documents recovered from al-Qaeda facilities in Afghanistan," Tenet testified, "show that bin Laden was pursuing a sophisticated biological-weapons research program." A U.S. intelligence official told TIME the CIA and its allies, through interviews and documents, have discovered that bin Laden is "further along than we had believed." This information builds on earlier reports of al-Qaeda camps in eastern Afghanistan that were used for developing and testing chemical and biological weapons, and supports President Bush's planned $11 billion increase in bioterror funding...
...worth remembering that for all his destructive desires, Osama bin Laden hasn't accomplished crimes anywhere near as dastardly as those of which Milosevic is accused. From Sept. 21, 1991, when Serb paramilitary shot 11 Croat civilians in Dalj and buried their bodies in a mass grave, to May 25, 1999, when, during the forced evacuation of the Kosovo village of Dubrava, Serb forces killed eight ethnic Albanians, the former President is charged with responsibility for crimes that resulted in the deaths of 300,000 non-Serbs and the expulsion of millions from their homelands...
...women from the Tajik, Uzbek, Hazara and other ethnic minorities they defeated. Stolen women were a reward for victorious battle. And in the cities of Kabul, Mazar-i-Sharif, Jalalabad and Khost, women victims tell of being forced to wed Taliban soldiers and Pakistani and Arab fighters of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, who later abandoned them. These marriages were tantamount to legalized rape. "They sold these girls," says Ahmad Jan, the Kabul police chief. "The girls were dishonored and then discarded...
...from the Pakistan border. There, according to eyewitnesses, the women were penned up inside Sar Shahi camp in the desert. The more desirable among them were selected and taken away. Some were trucked to Peshawar with the apparent complicity of Pakistani border guards. Others were taken to Khost, where bin Laden had several training camps. The al-Qaeda Arabs had a hard time finding voluntary brides among the Afghan women, but they did have money. One Arab in Khost spent $10,000 on a teenage Afghan beauty, says Ahmad Jan, but abandoned her a week later, when...
...down Lebuh Chulia, a major thoroughfare, will have your mouth watering at the spicy aromas from Chinese hawker stands and your hips swaying to the rhythms of the latest Bollywood hits as you pass Little India. For a brief respite, duck into the scented world of Sheik Abdul Hamid Bin Hassan Badjenid's perfume shop?run by three generations of Yemenite traders?where you can buy tiny bottles of pure frankincense oil for $160 apiece...