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...warplanes to do the dirty, risky work. Bands of local Afghan fighters--whether driven by the desire to rid their country of bin Laden or win the $25 million bounty the U.S. had placed on his head--joined U.S. special-operations forces in the pursuit. Their orders were to shoot to kill. As one Army officer told Time, "We won't ask him if he wants to surrender...
...harness the new fanaticism. In late 1995, bin Laden's compound in Khartoum was attacked by gunmen believed to be Takfiri. A Sudanese friend of bin Laden's who questioned the surviving attacker said, "He was like a maniac, more or less like the students in the U.S.A. who shoot other students. They don't have very clear objectives." By the time al-Qaeda had resettled in Afghanistan, ideological training was an integral part of the curriculum, according to a former recruit who went on to bomb the U.S. embassy in Nairobi. Students were asked to learn all about demolition...
...photographer who wants to shoot in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and avoid getting your camera smashed and film confiscated or worse, you have to take precautions. Which is why TIME photographer Majid uses a pseudonym to help him maneuver behind Taliban lines. Even so, Majid was beaten up by a Taliban patrol yet managed to smuggle his film across the border by courier. See his striking photo essay at time.com/talibanlines...
...wanted to move to Montmartre, to live in Paris." Amelie was to be played by Emily Watson, but when she bowed out, the first actress he tested was Tautou. "And I thought, Is it real? No, I saw the test on video. She's perfect. Each day during the shoot, I said, 'You're perfect. Do exactly like in the test...
...region, with A-10s on the way. If U.S. gunships take to the skies above Kabul, the Taliban will likely raid what is left of their stash of 250 antiaircraft Stinger missiles--arms sent to the mujahedin in the mid-'80s by the cia--to try to shoot the Americans down...