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...Americans represent the best hope for now, just as the Taliban did when they wrested control of most of the country from feuding warlords who had delivered only chaos. In the village of Babar Koli, a 22-year-old says he was a guard at Mullah Omar's Kandahar compound. The young man, who would not give his name, says he would not fight again if the mullah himself asked him. He instead wants to continue his religious studies in Kandahar...
...Karzai three weeks ago by firing on his car in Kandahar was a Taliban soldier who had been released from the Sheberghan prison camp two months earlier. According to some reports, the man changed his name from Abdul Razaq to Abdul Rahman in order to get hired as a compound guard for the Kandahar governor, who was with Karzai when Rahman struck. Government authorities suspect Rahman, 22, who was shot dead by U.S. special forces guarding Karzai, was part of a larger Taliban conspiracy, and are holding his entire guard unit while they search for concrete proof. Neighbors...
...machines that run on hydrogen are equally scarce. Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have been working on the first problem, automakers on the second. The Tokyo group has developed a way to "crack" hydrogen, using a mesh of thin carbon fibers studded with molecules of a nickel compound. The filter breaks down natural gas into carbon and hydrogen that is pure enough for use in fuel cells...
...with the Israelis. Plainly, the besieged Palestinian leader is going to work Operation Matter of Time for all it's worth - and given the extent to which the tide of Palestinian politics has turned against him, Arafat might well have been relieved to see Israeli tanks rolling into his compound Thursday...
Israel calls its latest siege of Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound "Operation Matter of Time," but for Washington it was a matter of bad timing. The return of Israeli tanks and bulldozers to the compound, and a West Bank-wide clampdown, appears to have earned the Palestinian leader a temporary reprieve from the mounting challenge to his diktat within his own Fatah organization. Of even more immediate concern to the Bush administration was the return of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis to the top of the agenda of Arab governments and of the UN Security Council - at a moment when Washington...