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...organizer of the joint Saudi-American-Pakistani support for Afghan rebels fighting the Soviet Union in the 1980s, Turki met bin Laden, a prominent volunteer in that war, five times and remembers him from those days as enthusiastic but gentle and shy. The Saudis first began to be worried about bin Laden in 1990, after he returned home from Afghanistan still hungry for more jihad. Soon after, according to Turki, bin Laden began taking veterans of the Afghan war to North Yemen to fight the Marxist regime in the Republic of South Yemen. "North Yemen is an arms market...
...them." But that's not what was available in the daily Ausaf, which is published in Urdu, an official language of Pakistan and edited by Hamid Mir, the journalist who says he got the quotes from bin Laden at an undisclosed location near Kabul. Apparently under pressure from the Pakistani government, Mir, in his own paper, was able to print only an assertion by bin Laden that if America uses chemical or nuclear weapons against al-Qaeda, it would not be eliminated and the war would continue. While U.S. authorities believe that bin Laden has failed in his attempts...
...favor of the Taliban is also being raised among the Pashtun tribes of Pakistan's borderlands. Last week more than 11,300 Pakistani Pashtun, some armed with nothing more than single-shot hunting rifles and swords, crossed into Afghanistan over the high mountain passes near Bajour, north of Peshawar, to join the Taliban. Those with combat experience were rushed up to Mazar-i-Sharif. Pakistani officials at the Bajour checkpoint made no effort to stop the holy warriors. "These are mad people," said a security officer, shrugging. "Let them...
...Pakistani efforts to forge a Pashtun opposition to the Taliban are falling behind the battlefield advances. With the death last month of prominent Pashtun war commander Abdul Haq--who was betrayed and executed by the Taliban while trying to recruit tribal elders for a revolt--U.S. hopes are pinned on Hamad Karzai, a pro-Western Pashtun nobleman who is in southern Afghanistan, urging tribal elders to back exiled King Mohammed Zahir Shah...
...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...