Word: talibanizing
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...hijackers, who support Afghanistan's anti-Taliban opposition, have released 10 hostages since arriving in London Sunday, after forcing the Ariana airlines flight to reroute from a domestic flight in Afghanistan, first to Uzbekistan and then to Moscow. There's an almost self-conscious element of irony in the hijackers' original demand for the release of a key Afghan opposition leader. The Taliban had, only weeks ago, played a questionable role in resolving the Indian Airlines hijacking, in which Kashmiri militants had demanded that India release one of their leaders. But it's an irony to which the Taliban - hosts...
Talk about "what goes around comes around," and in short order, too. Only weeks after Afghanistan's Taliban rulers played a questionable role in resolving the Indian Airlines hijacking, they find themselves facing the same crisis. A Boeing 727 belonging to Afghanistan's tiny domestic carrier Ariana with more than 150 passengers and an undisclosed number of hijackers remained on the runway at London's Stansted airport for a second day, Tuesday, as British authorities continued to negotiate with the terrorists who have released eight hostages over the past day. The hijackers have demanded the release of a key Afghan...
...children on board," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "They're more likely to simply use boredom as a weapon, waiting out the crisis and letting the hijackers tire and then later offering them a way out." Judging by their demand, the hijackers appear to be affiliated with the anti-Taliban opposition, which comprises diverse ethnic minorities and forces loyal to the previous government overthrown by the Taliban in 1996. They would, no doubt, have been inspired by the recent success of the Kashmiri separatists who managed through hijacking the Indian Airlines plane to secure the release of their imprisoned leader...
...Laden channels money through a variety of legitimate charities and businesses, and is not averse to exploiting family ties: He is reported to have married off one of his daughters to Taliban leader Mullah Omar, making his relationship with Afghanistan's ruler that of a father-in-law. Even though groupings such as Algeria's Armed Islamic Group - with which the group arrested in the U.S. is believed to be aligned - long predated Bin Laden and have an entirely independent leadership structure, they are reported to have received financial and training assistance from the Saudi financier's Al Qaeda group...
...much as Washington would like." They've helped the U.S. arrest World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef, as well as the man who attacked CIA headquarters in Langley and also some of Bin Laden's lieutenants. And the road to Bin Laden runs through Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement, and the road to the Taliban runs through Pakistan, which is why the U.S. is piling on the pressure...