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...track down leads, possible accomplices and more information on the 19 hijackers. At the same time they're ratcheting up security and are on constant alert for possible future threats. And now John Ashcroft would like them to go door to door asking 5,000 Middle Eastern and Pakistani men who arrived here in the past two years, "Are you a terrorist...
...American strikes and then spring ambushes on towns and villages below. "They can defect, change their mind and go back," Rumsfeld said. "It is not possible to answer the question as to the circumstance of the Taliban." But their divisions are scattered, their hard-core fighters are few?Pakistani sources say 2,000 members, at most, of Omar's 50,000-strong force are still active near Kandahar?and the regime has been drained of the financial and military resources that once sustained it. "Guerrilla warfare will be all that they can do," says an Air Force general. "I doubt...
...subject in English, is expected to have almost 150,000 copies in print by year's end. The novel has the grit of a survivor's tale, which it is in part. Ellis based the story on the daughter of an Afghan woman she met while working in a Pakistani refugee camp...
...most of these Afghans? Yeah. I think they're mostly Afghans. But no one knows to be really honest. The prisoners aren't saying. They'll say that they are all Afghans so that they're treated a little bit better than if they said they were Pakistani or Saudi or something...
...refugee camps, it's the women more than the men who do the talking. The men are stoic in their grief, while the women keen. At a camp near Spin Boldak, on the road between the Pakistani border town and Kandahar, few Taliban were on patrol and the burqas were off. Most women wore shawls, and they revealed their faces, often decorated with tattoos on the chin and forehead, when they were speaking of how they escaped Kandahar during the bombing raids, or trekked for 15 days to reach a road when they were fleeing Uzbek troops advancing on their...