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...school, held his own at soccer, nothing much," remembers Sharip. Basayev now professes a devout Islamic faith, but he didn't grow up in a religious family. "We never saw [Basayev's father] Salman go to the mosque until the mid-'90s," recalls former neighbor Abdul. In his teens, Basayev fulfilled his military service as a fireman, spending his ample spare time devouring books on world politics. After leaving the army, he and his younger brother, Shirvani, worked for their father as builders in southern Russia, before Basayev drifted to Moscow with vague plans of studying law. His education didn...
...fact, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf pardoned Abdul Qadeer Khan the day after the Pakistani scientist publicly admitted to selling nuclear secrets to Libya, Iran and North Korea. Khan remains under house arrest, but nearly all his associates are free. The U.S. has not gained access to Khan to figure out what he sold to whom...
...join the 15,000 already in the country. The Taliban, which ruled Afghanistan for nearly six years before the U.S. toppled the regime after 9/11, has made a campaign promise. "We will hit the election offices and the candidates, and anyone who gets in our way will die," spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi told TIME by satellite telephone from an undisclosed location. At the same time, any victory that smells too much of U.S. influence could taint rather than legitimize Karzai and widen the murderous ethnic divisions among Pashtuns, Tajiks, Uzbeks and Hazaras. The vote could also conceivably strengthen the warlords...
...strongmen don't come any stronger than General Abdul Rashid Dostum. A former communist general known to have ordered enemy captives crushed under a Russian tank, Dostum, 49, is trying to transform himself from warlord into smiling presidential candidate. That's going to take some finesse, given that he strikes fear in many Afghans in his northern stronghold of Shebarghan. Dostum's idea of campaigning is to sit on a thronelike chair in his rose garden and scowl at a line of deferential tribal elders, officials and militia commanders who will be expected to deliver votes from among the Uzbeks...
...life. At least the prisoner stays in one place with a guard outside. We are always moving, and only God is watching." ABDUL WAHED HASHIM, Iraqi businessman, after months of sleeping in different houses and constantly changing cars to avoid being kidnapped, on the lack of security in Iraq...