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...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 have increased the odds in favor of Dostum and Atta never materialized. Yusto Khalili, Northern Alliance commander and member of Afghanistan's war council, south of Dostum at Yakawland, said, "We do not know how long the war will continue. It all depends on American help and the world community. If they give us more help, then the war will...
...Still, it seems clear that the war planners in Washington cannot afford to ignore the Alliance; the assassination of anti-Taliban Pashtun leader Abdul Haq last week makes the Alliance warlords the only rebel commanders of any stature. Even if Dostum and Atta can't seize Mazar-i-Sharif, the U.S. will need their experience when it sends its own ground troops into Afghanistan. Last Friday, U.S. Navy Rear Admiral John Stufflebeem told reporters that the U.S. "will utilize all of our forces and all of the types of warfare that we have to bring to bear." He characterized...
That information can come none too soon. There have been reports that Zubaydah left Afghanistan on Sept. 15, bound, according to some sources, for Europe and likely set on sowing mayhem. But the lesson of the Atta group has to be a sobering one for Europe?s harried antiterrorist officials. Nobody heard them playing war videos, and nobody taped them boasting of their abiding desire to die a holy warrior?s death...
Said Bahaji, 26 Moroccan-German Status: Sought by German police. Linked to hijacker Mohamed Atta, along with fellow fugitives, Zakariya Essabar and Ramzi Binalshibh. Believed to have been involved in planning Sept. 11 attacks. Left Germany for Pakistan on Sept. 3 and now believed to be in Afghanistan...
Zakariya Essabar, 24 Moroccan Status: Wanted. International warrant issued by German police. Shared the same address in Hamburg as hijackers Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi. He allegedly helped plan the Sept. 11 attacks but failed to get a U.S. entry visa. Pictured in wedding photo with hijackers...