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...recent e-mail: "Sometime in this war I expect we will see videos of U.S. prisoners having their heads cut off." In conventional battle, the Taliban's soldiers would not scare the Army football team. Their air force is destroyed, they have few heavy weapons, and, says Ali Ahmad Jalali, a former colonel in the Afghan army, they are so undisciplined that in past battles, "they have rushed to the front line to share the glory and spoils." The U.S. Army would exploit snafus like that in a flash...
Most startling was the premature retirement of trusted friend Lieut. General Mahmoud Ahmad, chief of the formidable Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, widely regarded as the country's invisible government. As a staunch patron of pro-Taliban policies, Ahmad is thought to have opposed Pakistan's new alliance with the U.S. Musharraf had reason to fear that segments of the ISI might thwart promised cooperation with U.S. intelligence. And it is said that Musharraf hit the roof when an ISI-linked jihad group devoted to wresting Muslim Kashmir from Indian control took responsibility for a blast in the Indian city...
...Once the north has been secured, the Alliance will move on Kabul. They will push as far as the edge of the city, however, but will not enter, in deference to the terrible memories of chaos and pillage in 1992 when they last captured the city. Instead, Gen. Fazel Ahmad Azimi told TIME, they will send in a 3000 -man force drawn in equal proportions from the interior, public security and the defense ministries to ensure law and order...
...home. Musharraf's acquiescence was, of course, a disappointment to long-standing rival India, which is anxious to portray Pakistan as a hotbed of extremism and worried about signs of budding fanaticism within its own 150 million-strong Muslim population. On Friday, India's main Islamic cleric, Syed Ahmad Bukhari, said that if the "ulema announce jihad, it is obligatory for each and every Muslim to support...
...family awoke that morning to the sounds of gunfire, helicopters, and exploding grenades in the streets outside their house as RUF rebels, led by Major Johnny Paul Koroma plundered the city, destroyed local shops and diplomatic missions. Koroma went on to oust the freely elected president of Sierra Leone, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah because he was dissatisfied with Kabbah’s inability to secure peace in a country that had seen constant fighting for the past seven years. Determined to tear down the existing governmental regime with maximum speed and strength, Koroma reinstated Foday Sankoh to a leadership position...