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...Washington watched it all with a startling detachment, a view refracted through its focus on Osama bin Laden. While the Bush Administration cares about stabilizing Afghanistan, its first interest is eliminating the master terrorist. So far, officials don't think the situation on the ground is impeding the pursuit. In some ways, the chaos even played to the U.S.'s advantage. "Our priorities have much more to do with finding bin Laden," says an intelligence official. "If it's Afghans killing Afghans, that doesn't hurt us as much as Americans killing Afghans...
...Bonn," where the main factions meet this week to thrash out a power-sharing arrangement. Washington will do business with the warlords, however thuggish or politically grasping they might be. That's partly by necessity but also because the Pentagon wants people in power with enough authority to locate bin Laden and assist in killing...
...Administration's biggest worry is bin Laden's slipping away. "It's reasonable to assume he has a Plan B as to his own safety," says the intelligence official. The Pentagon is watching the mountain passes along the south and west of Afghanistan's long, porous border with Pakistan, and pushing the Islamabad government to mount stringent patrols. The search concentrated last week on the ridges of Tora Bora, just southwest of Jalalabad, where a thousand or so Arab fighters were holed up. Last month Afghans passing through reported spotting bin Laden near the Tora Bora bunker built by mujahedin...
Still, it must be comforting to have so single-minded a purpose. But there is more to Phase I of the war on terror than the demise of bin Laden or even the defeat of the Taliban. The collateral damage from those objectives has reduced Afghanistan to a nation where warlordism, betrayal and defection are again the order of the day. After 22 years of perpetual war, Afghans no longer trust any army on their territory. What they long for is security...
Past Issues Taliban Last Days Dec. 17, 2001 ----------------- Lifting the Veil Dec. 3, 2001 ----------------- Hunt for bin Laden Nov. 26, 2001 ----------------- Thanksgiving 2001 Nov. 19, 2001 ----------------- Inside Al-Qaeda Nov. 12, 2001 ----------------- Defender In Chief Nov. 5, 2001 ----------------- Going In Oct. 29, 2001 ----------------- The Fear Factor Oct. 22, 2001 ----------------- Facing the Fury Oct. 15, 2001 ----------------- How Real Is the Threat? Oct. 8, 2001 ----------------- Life on the Home Front Oct. 1, 2001 ----------------- One Nation, Indivisible Sept. 24, 2001 ----------------- Day of Infamy Sept. 14, 2001 PHOTO ESSAYS Kabul Unveiled Taliban on the Run More Photos >>> MORE STORIES Where's OBL: Letter from...