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...created streams of Afghan refugees trying to enter Pakistan by illegally crossing the barren Khyber Mountains. According to the U.N. refugee agency, since Sept. 11, more than 100,000 such refugees have entered Pakistan. Yet after the seemingly haphazard destruction of power plants, military targets, medical clinics and civilian villages, Rumsfeld asserts that the Taliban still poses a threat. This “threat” is the justification given for the continuation of the Bush administration’s textbook-style policy for the first phase of their “America Strikes Back” campaign. But unfortunately...
...oddities of the international legal system. He is in Britain on asylum from Egypt, where he was sentenced to death for the attempted murder of the Prime Minister in 1993, a charge he denies. "That was a military court," he told TIME before his arrest. "I'm a civilian." Governments across Western Europe, their feet held to the fire by strong civil-liberties groups, have been protective of the rights of refugees and asylum seekers. And while the European Union has demolished barriers to the movement of goods and people, its 15 nations have been slow to develop common institutions...
...described Salim as bin Laden's "best friend." It was Salim, the prosecutors said, who provided al-Qaeda with a rationale for "collateral damage," citing an ancient fatwa calling for all-out war against pagan invaders, one that was likely to bring about the death of Muslim traders and civilians in the cross fire. If the civilian dead were indeed innocent, the argument went, they would be headed for heaven anyway...
Four weeks into the Afghanistan military operation, the battle for the information high ground has intensified as the Pentagon struggles to counter Taliban claims about civilian casualties and apparent U.S. military errors...
Whether in government command centers or media newsrooms, limited information emerging from Afghanistan is rightly treated with skepticism, even if clearly sourced. But governments make a self-defeating mistake if they dismiss it all as "lies," especially when it creates the impression that military errors with civilian casualties have occurred. The old Pentagon mindset prevailed when first it denied, then grudgingly confirmed, that its planes bombed four well-marked Red Cross warehouses, a U.N. demining depot and the Herat hospital. To retain credibility and what may become increasingly fragile global support, officials must acknowledge that Taliban videos and claims...