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...intelligence--left the ambassadors of all 19 NATO countries "without a shred of doubt" about al-Qaeda's complicity. And on Thursday the predominantly Islamic nation of Pakistan gave the case against bin Laden a major vote of confidence when Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammed Riaz Khan said the Pakistani government sees "sufficient grounds for indictment" of the Saudi exile...
...aren't sure which side the ISI is really on. The CIA and the Pentagon have long been split on ISI's reliability. Islamabad pleased the CIA by extraditing three key terrorists in recent years. But as TIME reported 18 months ago, a 1999 CIA plot to train 60 Pakistani commandos to snatch bin Laden went nowhere when the ISI dragged its feet. "They didn't do squat," says an American close to the operation, who suspects Pakistan never intended to get bin Laden. Pentagon officials complain that ISI has "led us down blind alleys" before in the hunt...
Pakistan's public promise to help the U.S. has scared off its Afghan sources. The Taliban pressed Islamabad to call its diplomatic officials home for "safety" reasons, and other Pakistani informants are no longer allowed to move freely around Afghanistan. The Taliban destroyed satellite phones, and the Afghan ambassador in Pakistan moved down to Quetta for more secure contact with Taliban leaders in Kandahar. Taliban police are checking beneath women's body-length veils for disguised spies and keeping an eye on any tribal elder receiving guests or a sudden flow of money...
...borderlands between Afghanistan and Pakistan have become home not only to millions of refugees, but also to countless rumors about the fate of the Taliban government inside Afghanistan. Everyone here, from Pakistani spies to Afghan heroin smugglers, has a different take on the future of Kabul's despotic clerics. And though much of the gossip about what is happening in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan--mass defections of soldiers, for instance--is just gossip, there are signs of weakness, hints that the tight core of men around Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar are at the very least anxious about what...
...broad international alliance gathering to fight terror--already seem to have begun weakening some elements of the Taliban's rule. Until the Sept. 11 suicide attacks, for example, neighboring Pakistan had treated the Taliban with the patience of a father dealing with a delinquent teenager. No longer. Last week Pakistani authorities wasted no time in beginning to consider a replacement for the warrior-clerics ruling Afghanistan. The question is whether isolation and U.S.-led pressure will be enough to collapse the Taliban...