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...crowded area? What if he had wanted to kill scores of people? The grim fact is that he probably could have done both. Although a Coast Guard helicopter was dispatched and its pilots told Bishop to land, the teenager ignored the commands and crashed the plane. Scrambled F-15 fighter jets reached the scene only after the plane hit the building...
...Last week there were other visitors. Five four-wheel-drive vehicles carrying about 20 U.S. special-forces soldiers raced through Musa Qal'eh with U.S. helicopters and fighter-bombers overhead. Accompanying them was a band of Afghan fighters and the governor of Helmand, Haji Shir Mohammed. The convoy was on its way to the nearby town of Baghran to meet an aged, white-bearded tribal leader named Rais, better known as "the Baghran"-the most powerful warlord in the area and a possible link to Omar...
...that in all likelihood he would be selected by President Bush to face a military tribunal. But where that proceeding would occur and under what ground rules remain to be hammered out. He would probably spend some time in custody at sea aboard a U.S. warship. (American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh is being held aboard the U.S.S. Bataan, an amphibious assault ship in the Arabian Sea.) A shipboard trial for Omar is even possible. Charges would probably involve aiding a terrorist enterprise but not directly engaging in terrorism, which would be harder to prove...
...warm welcome. In Pakistan's Dabori Valley last week, where bin Laden stayed briefly after he was kicked out of Sudan in 1996, villagers say they would give him shelter as a fellow Muslim, even if they would urge him to leave. They say that a wounded al-Qaeda fighter turned up last week and was given food and money. "People did not inform the authorities," says Hasan Mehmood, who lives in the village of Naryab. "This Arab left the same night...
...position," Bush told him, describing his guest's decision to join the anti-Taliban coalition a month before. "And you made the right choice." Musharraf, however, wanted something in return, something that would signal long-term support for Islamabad. Bush, he said, should approve the delivery of F-16 fighter jets that had been held up after the U.S. applied sanctions to Pakistan almost a decade ago. "We're not ready to talk about F-16s right now," Bush replied. "But this is a long friendship...