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...year. The next day is Dec. 26, a Wednesday—the day of the week when most midweek films are released. It is also Boxing Day. Boxing Day! How big an oversight was this? I mean, here is Ali, supposedly a very good movie about perhaps the greatest fighter who ever lived, and you release it the day before Boxing Day! If you’re going to release it a day before, do it in only one theater at an obscure locale where Ali actually fought—Manila, perhaps. Or Kinshasa, the Sony Loews at Kinshasha would...
...caves faced a narrow valley that twisted its way through mountain ridges that seem to overlap as they rise toward the White Mountains. As Tuesday afternoon waned and it was clear that the Al Qaeda fighters had accepted the cease-fire, the area took the appearance of an archeological dig. Across one ridge 20 mujahidin fighters scratched at the ground with sticks looking for fragments of U.S. bombs, which they loaded into a huge cooking pot and carried to a pickup truck. One fighter handed me a rubber jug with a strap. "Al Qaeda," he said with a nod. Arabs...
...victory they were celebrating came with relative ease - one mujahidin fighter died and seven Al Qaeda fighters, according to commanders. Gul Karim led a group of about 30 fighters, including Crazy, in the Monday assault on the caves and a cluster of mud-earth houses nearby. The first thing he did was raise the enemy on a walkie-talkie. "He said they don't want to fight us, that we all are Muslims. They said leave us the Americans and we will fight them." It had no effect. "Our troops had orders to attack," he says. His soldiers, most...
Crazy led the charge on the caves. The six-foot-tall mujahidin fighter who chose his own nickname is famed in Jalalabad for killing five Arab fighters who fled town a little too slowly when the Taliban fell. Just before taking his usual place leading the charge on Monday, Crazy found a white coat left by Al Qaeda fighters who had held a forward ridge the day before. "This is Osama bin Laden's coat!" he yelled as he pulled in on, twisted a white head scarf around his head, and called his commander, Haji Zahir, one more time...
There may be some confusion in the minds of politicians in distinguishing between a freedom fighter and a terrorist [SPECIAL REPORT, Nov. 12]. From my perspective, a freedom fighter, because of his political convictions, battles his superior foe by whatever means he has. A terrorist intentionally kills or seriously harms innocent third parties in the attempt to exact political, religious or military gain. Under my definition, there are former terrorists who are now seemingly respectable world leaders. Whether these people should be brought to justice or warmly embraced, the label of terrorist should be applied to them. No religion...