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...aide to General Mohammed, told TIME. "They sacrificed many sheep, because many of the soldiers were originally from Mazar and their families were still living in the city, so they sacrificed the sheep in front of them." Alliance commanders claim to have killed some 250 Taliban, most of them Pakistani and Arab volunteers, and captured a further 500, although none of these claims can be verified. Rather than fight to the finish, however, Alliance commanders say the Taliban retreated north and east after a fierce battle involving troops, tanks and Taliban artillery at the southern gateway to the city...
While hundreds of inexperienced Pakistani, Sudanese and other Muslim faithful enter Afghanistan every week to join the Taliban army, the estimated 1,000 Arabs of Brigade 055 have been in the country for years. Trained in bin Laden's terror camps, they are the Taliban's most dedicated and highly skilled soldiers--the elite of the roughly 5,000 al-Qaeda fighters on the ground...
...paratrooper." Objecting to the "Muslims screaming hate against America," a Texan asked, "Why not show the heroic workers cleaning up the rubble in New York?" "We have enough reminders of the terror without that revolting picture," declared an Arizonan. But plenty of you were struck by something else. "That Pakistani protester must have a great dental plan," wrote a Californian. "He has a perfect set of teeth." A New Jersey man agreed. "My two daughters' orthodontia didn't come close to those teeth. What's in the water over there?" We don't know about Pakistan's water or dental...
...Such is the public anger that when Vajpayee declared that he would not meet Musharraf in New York City as originally scheduled, he was applauded. And India's Defense Minister George Fernandes marked his re-induction to office with so-called punitive firing on Pakistani border posts despite U.S. calls for restraint. From an Indian perspective, the U.S. strikes on Afghanistan may have moral legitimacy, but the U.S. errs by not extending that legitimacy to others who face identical predicaments...
...Your Back There may be one compelling reason to scale back air strikes: doing so could help contain anti-American unrest in Pakistan, a war aim that will become vital as the thrust of the campaign shifts to ground operations by special forces. U.S. commandos staging from bases in Pakistani territory have already faced mortal danger. When two Chinook helicopters landed at the Panjgur airport in southern Pakistan after retrieving a downed U.S. chopper, aviation sources tell TIME, they were met with a swarm of bullets from pro-Taliban, Pakistani irregulars who were guarding the airport. The Chinooks returned fire...