Word: talibanize
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...money, maintains the networks, issues the fatwas (pseudo-religious decrees to attack Americans all over the world, for example) and then lets his military planners and allies take care of the details. Bin Laden is currently hiding out in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, and that country's ruling Taliban militia has no intention of handing him over despite new U.N. sanctions. A finding tying Bin Laden to the Cole attack will, of course, beg the question of U.S. retaliation. But there's no easy way of striking back at an adversary with few fixed assets. President Clinton...
...wretched of America will be turned out in the snow on Christmas eve. Bloated middle-aged white men will ride about the town on the backs of blacks and Hispanics, as if on the backs of burros; back-alley coathangers will return women to the reign of an American Taliban. (In the privacy of their own minds, most conservatives, I suspect, believe that as a matter of practical politics and social consensus, it would not be worth setting off a second American civil war by trying to overturn Roe V. Wade...
DEPORTED. MARY MACMAKIN, 72, American relief worker jailed for four days in Kabul, after providing home-based work for local women, who have been barred from most jobs since the Taliban came to power in 1996; from Afghanistan...
...here's a question for the British government: Nobody can blame desperate souls for trying to flee Afghanistan's medieval Taliban regime any way they can, but granting 19 hijackers asylum in Britain would undermine international efforts to curb terrorism. The hijacking drama came to a peaceful end Wednesday night as the hijackers allowed the last remaining passengers to leave, and then walked off the plane and into police custody. Despite a call early on in the ordeal for the release of an Afghan opposition leader, the hijackers had made no specific demands after forcing the Ariana Boeing...
...hostages may actually have been grateful for the hijacking: Besides the 19 people now in custody, at least 60 of the hostages have applied for political asylum in Britain. And while Home Secretary Jack Straw might be sympathetic toward people condemned by history to live under the Taliban, he's wary of turning Britain into the destination of choice for the hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan. He'll find it hard to show leniency toward those who used knives, guns and hand grenades to reroute an airliner. After all, the very premise of the global fight...