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CONVICTED. H. RAP BROWN, 58, 1960s radical, of killing a sheriff's deputy and wounding another in a 2000 shoot-out; in Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta. Brown, a Black Panther turned Muslim cleric known as Jamil Adullah al-Amin, could face execution or life imprisonment...
Parlika is used to challenging the status quo. She was imprisoned and tortured in 1979 for organizing a women's movement opposed to President Hafizullah Amin. During the Taliban years she organized a network of secret schools for girls in private apartments across the city...
...Sirrs, a former analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency, "or conscripts whom the Taliban are willing to toss into the fire." The hardest core--about 10,000 men, most of them foreigners--will fight to the death. "When they have to secure a position, they secure it," says Haron Amin, the Alliance's representative in Washington who has fought the Taliban. "They don't worry about their casualties...
...public relations exercise is failing where it matters most: in Washington. Alliance spokesman Haron Amin moved there from New York following the Sept. 11 attacks, to lobby for assistance. But other than a meeting three weeks ago with the National Security Council's resident expert on Afghanistan, Zalmy Khalil Zad, he has had almost no access to decision makers in the Bush Administration. "At State we asked for (Deputy Secretary Richard) Armitage, but he was busy," Amin says. "I've asked for (Assistant Secretary for Policy Planning) Richard Haass, but he's been busy, too." He has met some members...
...Amin's failure to get anywhere in Washington is felt by Alliance troops on the frontlines near Mazar-i-Sharif and north of Kabul: they are staggering, short of food and ammunition. The Taliban, meanwhile, seems to have no difficulty replenishing munitions destroyed in the American air raids. While Alliance leaders wait for promised U.S. assistance, they are bickering among themselves about what to do next and growing increasingly frustrated with mixed signals from Washington. Last week, Secretary of State Colin Powell said he hoped the Alliance would be able to capture Mazar-i-Sharif, but the support that might...