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...long against the Taliban, Haji Abdul is nonetheless from this district, and his ties here show in his stance toward the local Taliban. "All of the Taliban soldiers were from our tribes; they were not criminals," he said, meaning there were no foreign Taliban among them. When he assumed command in Musa Qal'eh one month ago there was no Taliban resistance, despite northern Helmand being one of their strongest centers. The lack of resistance is not because their forces withdrew. "They are still living here," said Haji Abdul. "The Afghan Taliban are our relatives, our brothers and cousins...
...Where is Osama? We don't know where bin Laden is," says Army General Tommy Franks, chief of U.S. Central Command. "We've been pretty honest about that. We've said he is either dead or alive, and he is either inside Afghanistan or he isn't." While some leaders of the new Afghan government believe bin Laden is hiding with Omar near Baghran, American officials are skeptical. They believe that if he survived the bombing of the Tora Bora caves, he is most likely to be in hiding on one side or the other of the Afghan border with...
...Afghanistan marked a sober milestone Friday when the Pentagon reported the first U.S. fatality from hostile fire. According to General Tommy Franks, head of U.S. central command, a member of the Army Special Forces was killed by small arms fire near Khowst, in eastern Afghanistan. The soldier's name has not yet been released. There is no word of other military casualties, but a CIA officer was also wounded in what observers are calling an "ambush." He is expected to survive...
...climbed out he saw why: the street was already littered with bodies that had fallen from the sky. The fire fighters entered the lobby of 1 World Trade through blown-out windows and waited for their orders from senior officers at a desk that served as a makeshift command center...
...fact, just a few blocks away. Having raced to the scene at the first news of the attacks, Giuliani was nearly buried alive. In the hours that followed, he had to lock parts of the city down and break others open, create a makeshift command center and a temporary morgue, find a million pairs of gloves and dust masks and respirators, throw up protections against another attack, tame the mobs that might go looking for vengeance and somehow persuade the rest of the city that it had not just been fatally shot through the heart...