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...married one of his daughters to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar. Bin Laden's eldest son, Mohammed, wed the daughter of bin Laden lieutenant Mohammed Atef. The 19-year-old bin Laden is reportedly learning his father's business by guarding Osama's tent at night with an AK...
...Tribal Territory Since we're not allowed to reach the Afghan border, we decide to head north to Shakot, a village that makes guns--anything from a Kalashnikov AK-47 ($120) to Russian pistols ($80). They also sell a mind-sizzling hashish, and puff away while tooling the guns. "If it's complicated work, the hashish makes it easier," grins one gunsmith between tokes. He sells a lot of AK-47s to Afghans and local Pakistanis. "A gun is a man's jewelry," he relates, and assures us that the tribesmen on the Pakistani side--to a man--will join...
...first foreign visitors since the Buddhas were destroyed. Ten hours north in the back of a truck brought us to a stop where a group of Taliban fighters escorted us to a stone-and-mud compound. In each corner stood a militiaman armed with a locally made AK-47 assault rifle and guarding piles of ammunition and missiles loosely stacked against a wall. We sat on the ground and tensely drank tea with our hosts. The mood lightened as more Taliban members arrived, hugging and slapping their comrades and welcoming us as guests. We communicated by pointing, drawing and acting...
...Sierra Leone soldiers are also used to carrying semiautomatic AK-47s. They would shoot from the hip or hold the weapon away from the body and fire almost indiscriminately. Britain has supplied the army with 15,000 self-loading rifles and must now retrain the soldiers to use them. "We're trying to teach them that it's not so much the firepower they put down, it's the accuracy," says Sgt. Maj. Davey Averill, who oversees weapon handling. For the first week the Sierra Leone soldiers practice without bullets. "Some of them are struggling," says Averill. "They...
...Kids, the professor could say, it was touch and go. The devils in black pajamas had damn near overrun the LZ at Cholon when we landed. I popped some Willie Peter from the AK, and my mortarman, Joe Biden, let 'em have it with a few bursts of an old Neil Kinnoch speech about his granddad the coal miner going to college. That knocked 'em dead. Victor Charles melted back into the triple-canopy forest, and he took Jane Fonda with...