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...after even Sudan didn't want him. Khalis lives in an adobe compound a short distance from Jalalabad on the road to Tora Bora. He was close with the Taliban, which used his land as a parking lot for its tanks - more than a dozen of them were blown apart by US missiles and now lie wrecked on Khalis's land. Khalis himself is old and incapacitated, but he and his followers once excelled at smuggling Mujahidin fighters through Tora Bora during the war against Russia. His followers could easily arrange safe houses...
...just above the caves. The area is a picture of devastation. Strewn across the terraced slopes that climb a tight valley are torn strips of Arabic training manuals, some shreds of clothing, a set of parallel exercise bars and a shooting target printed by the National Rifle Association. Trees blown from the earth lie with their roots twisted into clumps like charred driftwood. Bomb craters 50 feet across and 20 feet deep are filled with rubble and cross beams. "I think yesterday he was around there," says commander Zaman. "I don't know if bin Laden is dead or alive...
...under the Taliban regime were being forced to stay at home and some were beaten or murdered? Where were they when patients in Afghan hospitals were dying and children were without teachers because professional Afghan women were not allowed to work? Where were the protesters when innocent Africans were blown to bits while working in U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania? The terrorists rely on demonstrators to sow confusion and dissension. I hope those who opposed the war have seen the pictures of grateful Afghan citizens smiling and playing soccer and women going back to work. Americans, we love...
...their Republican colleagues still haven't grown any Bush coattails. And if Daschle figures if he can play tax cuts to a stalemate when Republicans have the House and the White House, he might just be able to turn them against their masters when this whole "emergency" thing has blown over...
...thought, was to be a little crazy, provocative, edgy, push the envelope, etc. Sometimes we went too far. I remember one “endpaper” I edited in the spring of 1986 which consisted of a compilation of space shuttle Challenger jokes. (The space shuttle had blown up in January ’86). While any number of people told me that they thought the jokes were tasteless and offensive, the person that really got to me was Brian Byrne, The Crimson’s press operator, who said that he personally knew the family of Christa McAuliffe...