Word: ahmad
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...transported across the border by Pakistani military vehicles and, once in Kabul, received orders and money from the senior Pakistani officer in Kabul, a man named Naser. Zai was in the forefront of the Taliban troops who swept into Kabul on Sept. 27 and pushed the armies of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the former government's army commander, into the hills surrounding the capital. Zai was captured Oct. 13 near the Salang Pass, the high-water mark of the Taliban effort to drive Massoud's forces from the region. The campaign turned disastrous when Massoud retreated until the Taliban had stretched...
...former cleric who is also known as Commander of the Faithful, had yet to make an appearance, running the capital from his base 300 miles to the south in Kandahar. And the Taliban aren't finished fighting. The forces of ousted President Burhanuddin Rabbani, led by former Army Chief Ahmad Shah Massoud, are holed up 31 miles north of Kabul in the isolated Panjshir Valley, and have blown up the road leading in. Rabbani is rumored to have fled to Iran. Even more intractable was General Abdul Rashid Dostum, a warlord who controls a large tract of territory...
...Ahmad I. Atwan '96 said a Wall of Shame inspires twentysomething job hunters and adds a bit of levity to an otherwise tense process...
...undergraduate winners, all seniors, are Priya R. Aiyar of Lowell House; Ahmad I. Atwan of Kirkland House; David V. Bonfili of Dunster House; Alice I. Chen, a Currier resident; Ramin Toloui of Leverett House; and Mark Wu '95-'96, a Currier affiliate who lives of campus...
...DIED. AHMAD KHOMEINI, 48, militant son of the late Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini; after a heart attack; in Tehran. He played no official role but was considered the standard bearer of the Ayatullah's revolutionary preachings...