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...over the mountains on horseback into Logar province, he was tailed by Taliban operatives who captured him on Oct. 21 and, after hours of interrogation, shot him and two of his comrades. Six of Haq's men are still under arrest, along with 20 other supporters--dousing U.S. and Pakistani hopes of an uprising among the country's Pashtun tribesmen. Haq's execution, says a foreign diplomat in Islamabad, "will make any tribal chieftain hesitate before turning against the Taliban." Ahmadullah couldn't hide his glee. In a satellite-telephone interview with a Peshawar journalist, he exulted, "Anyone who tries...
...investigators now believe that al-Zawahiri also made not one but two fund-raising trips to the U.S. in the 1990s. During the second, in 1995, he was introduced to worshipers at the An-Noor mosque in Santa Clara, Calif., as Dr. Abdel Muez, a representative of the Pakistani Red Crescent, the Islamic version of the Red Cross. Al-Zawahiri collected thousands of dollars from donors who were told the money was intended to help Afghan refugees. Dr. Ali Zaki, an Egyptian-born physician who is one of the leaders of the mosque, says he later accompanied...
...Proportion of the Pakistani manufacturing work force employed by the textile and apparel industry--approximately 3.5 million people...
...home to which they can escape. By the time they reach adulthood, the mullahs and commanders of the Taliban have become their family. The Taliban insists the extreme measures of jihad require extreme schooling. "Children are innocent, so they are the best tools against dark forces," says a Pakistani Taliban fighter, who was captured by the Northern Alliance last month near Dast-e-Qale...
...Heavy rains slowed the rebel advance. Just west of the city, Taliban forces in the old citadel Qala-I-Jangi uncorked a final fusillade from cannons, multibarrel rocket launchers, mortars and fixed machine guns. Alliance troops found hundreds of Taliban fighters--most of them Arab and Pakistani volunteers--holed up in a girls' high school. They were zealots, primed for death: after the Alliance commanders failed to coax them into surrender, a two-hour fire fight broke out, and all the Taliban troops were killed or captured. It was their last stand. The Taliban had set up no defenses inside...