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Within hours of the Sept. 11 tragedy, Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban regime publicly discounted the possibility that Osama bin Laden, a suspect in several previous terrorist actions and its notorious guest, could have masterminded the attacks. With wreckage still smoldering in New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania, and with the investigation leading straight to the al-Qaeda terrorist network which bin Laden heads from his Afghan headquarters, the Taliban demanded that the United States offer proof of bin Laden’s guilt. Now it appears that the United States is prepared to do precisely that...
...current hosts, the radical Islamic Taliban regime in Afghanistan, are to be believed, that's about the maximum bin Laden can personally do now. Under heavy international pressure to give their guest up, the Taliban claims to have denied him phone and fax capabilities. (He had already quit using his satellite phone because its signal can be traced.) Bin Laden has been forced to rely on human messengers. He leads a spartan life; he no longer has a comfortable camp. U.S. officials believe he lives on the move, in a sturdy Japanese pickup truck, changing sleeping locations nightly to avoid...
...innocent people, ordinary citizens," Zalmai Khan, a housepainter, said sadly. "Why must so many people die?" another man cried. "It doesn't matter who they are; they all have a mother and a father." Many said they believe that Osama bin Laden, whom the Taliban treats as an honored guest, is a liability and should be expelled from Afghanistan. But the Taliban has little intention of giving up bin Laden. "He was a friend in a time of need. It would be very much cowardly to leave him at this stage in his life," Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil told...
...It’s been a dizzying two weeks for freshman hottie Dana D. Guest ’05, whose whirlwind tour of Harvard’s most elite social organizations has concluded in disappointment. “These places all just sorta rubbed me the wrong way. Am I crazy, or does it seem that every organization here is, at heart, all about getting freshman girls drunk?” Representatives from all eight final clubs, Crimson Key, the Pudding, the Advocate and the Opportunes refused to comment...
...crowd shifted, one man lurched back and inadvertently stepped on my toes. He turned around and apologized profusely at his clumsiness and his lack of manners with a foreign guest. Then he turned back to listen to the mullah say "Death to Americans." Just don't step on their toes...