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...Taliban realize it's over," says one Pakistani trader in Chaman border town who has contacts with several of Kandahar's top commanders. "What worries them is that they'll surrender - and then be massacred, like the Pashtuns were up in Mazar-i-Sharif and Kunduz...
...list of Taliban demands has been a guarantee that the lives of Supreme Leader Mullah Omar and the other commanders be spared. Their conduit has been a respected Soviet war veteran, Wakil Samat Noorzai, living in Spin Boldak, near the Pakistani border, who flatly informed the Taliban leadership that he didn't have the clout to enforce such a promise. Soon after, Omar urged his men to fight to the death. Negotiations for the peaceful handover of Kandahar's eastern borderlands to supporters of exiled King Mohammed Zaher Shah fell apart, and Taliban resumed control of the area. On Friday...
...After a trip to the U.S. embassy in Islamabad a month ago, the portly, mule-jawed Sherzai came back to the southern Pakistani city of Quetta throwing around cash. Merchants say he bought himself over 30 new four-wheel vehicles and then set off to an Afghan refugee colony called Jungle Piralzai known for its thieves and opium smugglers. As one associate of Sherkzai's admitted: "Of course, these men are bandits." There, he recruited men for 15,000 rupees ($250 a month), and outfitted them with weapons and at least 40 kilos of hashish, according to this associate...
...Ashazai says that even if the U.S. planes were to flatten Kandahar to the point where Sherzai and his mercenaries could march in, they wouldn't last long. As one Pakistani border official remarked: "If America hands over power to these looters and bandits, the Taliban will be back in six months - and the Afghans will welcome them back...
...Most Arab and Pakistani Americans are law-abiding citizens or immigrants. But many came to this country to escape repressive regimes and they're naturally suspicious of law enforcement. When cops and federal agents knock on your door and start asking a lot of questions, it's bound to be a little unnerving. It could sound like they?re putting together a database of suspects to round up if there's another attack...