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...Muslims all over the world, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, Ramadan, is a sacred time for introspection, religious devotion and fasting. Yet U.S.-led coalition members have repeatedly rebuffed Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s request that they halt bombing during the holy month of Ramadan, set to begin...
...Pakistani textile- and apparel-industry jobs lost since Sept. 11 owing to U.S. clothing companies, including Perry Ellis and Tommy Hilfiger, canceling orders...
...U.S.air power. That's certainly a plausible defensive strategy in light of the strength of the forces ranged against them, but some correspondents close to the action have described a chaotic collapse, in which many Taliban commanders and troops simply fled their positions, leaving the more ideologically-motivated Pakistani, Arab and Chechen volunteers to fight and die - some of them reportedly after surrendering. Indeed, Western audiences may wince a little as firsthand tales from the battle front paint many of the proxy warriors of the Northern Alliance as no less brutal than their Talib enemies. But in Afghanistan, neither locals...
...opposite, and the truth is that the Alliance remains deeply divided within its own ranks. Many of its Tajik elements on the Kabul front support the return to power of President Barnharuddin Rabbani, ousted by the Taliban in 1996 - a scenario repugnant not only to the Pashtuns and their Pakistani backers, but even to other factions of the Northern Alliance. But Russia, set to become the quartermaster-in-chief to the Alliance, has already pledged to back Rabbani's return, and it may yet take some furious geopolitical horse trading to prevent a seizure of Kabul...
...also killed - were recovered the next morning by NA troops. They had been shot multiple times and their bodies had been stripped of their belongings. According to General Hassan his troops found 13 Taliban bodies when they went to get the journalists' bodies - these Taliban "were Chechen, Punjabi [Pakistani] and Arabs...