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...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...
...crusade against the kind of misery he first confronted while serving in Kabul with the Red Cross in 1991. Looking for a typical patient profile in the clinic admissions log, he discovered that it was not a young male combatant wounded in Afghanistan's civil war. Instead, typical meant civilian and female. Three years later--relying mostly on private donors in Italy, including the pro soccer team Inter Milan--Strada had rounded up enough financial support to launch Emergency. Since then, the group has treated nearly 200,000 women and children as well as some combatants at its clinics...
...obviously do not want to harm civilians. But the Taliban are storing weapons in mosques and using schools as barracks. Do we leave them unmolested? The enemy deliberately murdered American civilians. Now he is counting on American sensitivity to inadvertent civilian casualties to protect him--so he can live to slaughter American civilians again...
...bottom kept falling out before they could get there. Health officials were confounded by a germ weapon never before unleashed on a civilian population; law-enforcement officials were stymied by bioterrorists who were either linked to the Sept. 11 attacks or merely pretending to be. Military officials faced a Taliban army whose tanks they could blow up but whose will was much harder to degrade. And while the public continued to show great support for the President, each new setback would test that faith. "The American people are going to have to be patient," the President declared Friday, "just like...
Similarly, great pains have been taken to isolate the American troops from the Saudi public and minimize cultural clashes ... Their bases are located away from cities and towns, and when they must venture into settlements, they are under orders to wear civilian clothing and to go unarmed when possible. Violations ... have evoked complaints from the Saudis, though both sides are eager to downplay such frictions...