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...them. Green-eyed, with raven-black hair that grazed her waist, Nafiza had rushed to help Shah Jan get her three kids out of the burning house. A Taliban fighter spotted the woman with the emerald eyes. She was his prize. With the butt of his AK-47 rifle, he slammed Nafiza into the dust and dragged her, crying and pleading, to the highway. There, Arabs and Pakistanis of al-Qaeda joined the Taliban to sort out the young women from the other villagers. One girl preferred suicide to slavery; she threw herself down a well. Nafiza and women from...
...Agreeing to talk only by telephone and refusing to give even a nickname, the 10-year veteran of the murderous struggle - his wife and three children have all been killed in the fighting - says that he regularly places orders with arms syndicates for hundreds of weapons: M-16 and AK-47 automatic rifles, handguns and ammunition. Tracing a well-worn route, the weapons are bought in Thailand, sent down to Malaysia and then carried on boats through the Strait of Malacca...
...reaction to that leave taking proved to be no surprise at all. The next morning, amid much confusion, there was jubilation in the streets of Kandahar. Residents tore down the white Taliban flag and waved pictures of exiled King Zaher Shah, and rebel Pashtun forces fired AK-47 rounds into...
...morning in late November. In the Qala-i-Jangi prison fortress, a few miles west of Mazar-i-Sharif, CIA agent Johnny ("Mike") Spann was sorting through 300 surrendered Taliban soldiers in an attempt to determine which of them were al-Qaeda members. Dressed in blue jeans, with an AK-47 strapped across the back of his black sweater, Spann passed through several rows of Taliban before crouching in front of a prisoner who had been separated from the rest, a mass of tangled hair and tattered clothes once named John Walker. "What's your name?" Spann asked. There...
...reaction to that leave taking proved to be no surprise at all. The next morning, amid much confusion, there was jubilation in the streets of Kandahar. Residents tore down the white Taliban flag and waved pictures of exiled King Zaher Shah, and rebel Pashtun forces fired AK-47 rounds into...