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Locals are less enthusiastic about the symbolic occupation. "Mohmand Agency has always been peaceful," says Khushal Bacha, 77, one of the grandsons of Haji Saheb Turangzai. "We started noticing Talibans about two to three months back. The government did not take any action. And now they have taken over the mosque." On August 1 more than 600 local tribesmen met in a "jirga" and asked the militants to leave. The tribesmen agreed to help them build a seminary but the militants continue to hold the premises at gunpoint. "There are over 250 armed people inside. They came from everywhere. Some...
Grandson Khushal Bacha accuses the government of not doing enough to stop the Talibanization of Mohmand. "These militants are inviting America to attack our region," the old man tells me. "It seems like a conspiracy against the people...
...Columbus, Ohio, and the Bacha family is famished. Sarah, 41, a marketing consultant, has been firing on all cylinders since 7 a.m., getting the kids off to school and then juggling phones, e-mail, paperwork and a lengthy strategy meeting. Her husband Jim, 47, has lumbered home after another taxing day as an attorney with American Electric Power Co. Will, 6, and Henry, 4, are antsy for parental attention. As usual, no one has had time to cook. What's a time-crunched family...
...years ago, foreign al-Qaeda fighters turned the village of Mir Bacha Kot outside Kabul into a terrorist-training camp. Some six hours of video were recently found there, according to Afghan intelligence sources. These haunting still images from the videotape show what appear to be Arab, African and European fighters honing their deadly craft--all prelude, it turns out, to the group's much bolder and more horrific attack on Sept...
...were back in circulation. The remainder belonged to increasingly irate middle-class Brazilians who would not gain access to their money until September 1991. "The feeling was that ((Collor and his government)) did something very dramatic, and then they simply blew it off through bad management," says economist Edmar Bacha of the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio. "That gave the impression that the rich got away with it again." The meltdown of the program rekindled inflation, which more than tripled to a rate of 12.9% last month. That set off new price hikes, which led workers to demand salary increases...