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...Meanwhile, Walker himself remains a total mystery. By most accounts, he seems to be at least slightly unhinged (an observation echoed by a Northern Alliance fighter who, according to wire reports, indicated the young American and made the universal gesture for "crazy"). Whether he's mentally competent to stand trial remains to be seen, but some legal experts suspect Walker will not be tried as a traitor; instead he'll be charged with sedition - a largely unused charge that implies the advocacy of violence against the government - or some other, lesser crime...
...every street those calm, hooded eyes gaze out from their baggy sockets. He's the Che Guevara of northern Afghanistan, its Mandela, Marley, JFK. (Nearly anyone you ask can recall where he or she was when the news of his assassination broke.) Not merely because Massoud was a famed fighter or a charismatic leader?but because he had a vision of a unified, representative government for Afghanistan, which remains the country's best hope...
...their bloody history began not on Sept. 11, but two days earlier. Everything that has happened since is seen as guided by his ghostly hand. "As soon as Massoud was martyred, the attacks happened in America and Pakistan withdrew its support from the Taliban," says Abdul Saboor, 35, a fighter pilot who carries a case of Massoud memorabilia with him. "The innocence of his unjust death spread across the world and started the defeat of the Taliban." In death, Massoud has become the one commander no one dares sell out. "He may not be among...
Reuters bans the use of such emotive terms as terrorist and freedom fighter in its news reports. Broadcasters say they now think twice before using the word disaster to describe such commonplace events as trains being delayed for a couple of hours...
...heat of battle, warriors can be rational; few fight to the death. But the Taliban at Qala-i-Jangi truly did, and beyond it. Spann's body, recovered by a special-operations squad, had been booby-trapped; a grenade had been hidden under the corpse of a Taliban fighter that lay on top of the American. As late as Thursday, those removing bodies were still taking fire from Taliban fighters who had somehow survived in the basements underneath the fort. On Saturday the basements were flooded; Northern Alliance observers expected perhaps five or six surviving Taliban to come...