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...nurtured by perceptions of U.S. culpability in the plight of the Iraqis and Palestinians has seeded the propaganda playing field in bin Laden's favor. It will take a Herculean spin effort to convince al-Jazeera viewers that Osama bin Laden is the reason for the suffering of the civilian casualties whose images dominate Arab media coverage of the war in Afghanistan. It appears that even those hostile to bin Laden may be growing increasingly wary of the U.S. bombing campaign...
...believed that a showdown between Islam and the West is inevitable, and the strikes were also calculated to provoke a retaliation that could be painted as an attack on Islam. And despite the strenuous efforts by Bush and Blair to dispel such fears, the danger is that images of civilian suffering in Afghanistan might turn Arab and Muslim public opinion increasingly against the U.S. campaign...
...gave way to the reality of a long twilight struggle that seems sure to drag into the Afghan winter. After more than 3,000 American bombs, the Taliban still has plenty of fight left in it; Taliban troops have thwarted a Northern Alliance offensive at Mazar-i-Sharif; civilian deaths are climbing; and many coalition partners--most crucially Pakistan--have grown impatient...
...Rule 2: That House Is Really a Weapons Depot The Pentagon's most optimistic estimate is that 85% of American bombs and missiles have hit their targets. But that means that 450 or more may have gone astray, regularly nailing civilian structures and residential neighborhoods. The military has struggled to explain some of its mistakes. Rumsfeld flatly denied a Taliban report that a U.S. warhead landed on a hospital in Herat. But the next day he sent his spokeswoman out to concede that "it is possible" a 1,000-lb. bomb from a U.S. F-18 accidentally damaged the hospital...
...which has damaged whatever credibility America might have had among the ordinary Afghans it hopes to convert. The Taliban, like the Iraqis and Serbs before them, have exaggerated civilian casualties while helping create more of them by positioning artillery near mosques and schools--erecting human shields and daring the U.S. to hit them. Daud Khan, 28, a refugee coming out of Kandahar, the Taliban stronghold, told TIME that the regime's forces have moved into residential quarters of the city, occupied houses and put antiaircraft guns on the roofs. Another 45 camouflaged truckloads of weapons have been moved into...