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...teahouses of Afghanistan. It has thousands of informers inherited from KHAD--the feared secret police of the former Afghan communist regime--working alongside Muslim clerics in nearly every Afghan village. And it has no monolithic central headquarters that can be taken out with a missile. "The Taliban's command-and-control center," says a foreign diplomat, "is two mullahs sitting on a rug with a radio transmitter...
...Islamic Group (GIA), a terrorist organization active throughout Europe. The camps in Afghanistan play a vital role. Whatever network they may originally have been aligned with, visitors to the camps meet men from other groups, forge relationships and acquire the stature of soldiers in a holy war. The high command of the group includes bin Laden, al-Zawahiri and Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi-born Palestinian who was identified in an American court case in July as the organizer of the camps and who investigators believe may be al-Qaeda's director of international operations...
...station in Sudan. The U.S. says the real goal was to get radio equipment that could be used by al-Qaeda to communicate with its operatives. The following year, however, found al-Qaeda in confusion: Sudan expelled bin Laden, and the group's members were scattered until their high command returned to Afghanistan. Salim was living in Dubai and by 1998 had made four more visits to Germany, ostensibly to look for a new wife and a car. "My wife had three operations on her uterus," he told interrogators. "I talked with my wife about this, and she agreed...
...awards plaza. Plainclothes cops will patrol the streets, and sensors will monitor the air for germs and chemicals. The no-fly zone will expand to 100 miles beyond the city, and the Air Force is pondering F-16 patrols. Still, David Tubbs, executive director of the Utah Olympic Safety Command, stresses that no threats have surfaced and that ticket sales remain brisk...
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...