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Pasquarello would not confirm that Caos was the kidnapping victim...
...course, we shouldn’t wish for anthrax. Inhalation anthrax is a brutal disease, killing victims who do not distinguish their flu-like symptoms from the common flu in time to take the life-saving antibiotics. Even the most vainglorious of us cannot really want their fame confirmed by death. Neither do we need an anthrax infection to confirm our solidarity with victims of terrorism. If the joke about being infected by anthrax lingers, as it seems likely to do well into cold season, it shouldn’t be repeated as it is now, in tones revealing equal...
...what about accuracy? In the transparent, real-time information environment of new wars, trust is a commodity to be won, not assumed as of right. Officials want cockpit videos of bomb strikes to confirm immediate achievements. But post-conflict analysis typically shows that barely one-third of videoed explosions caused the purported damage. In Kosovo, Britain?s Chief of Defence Staff reported "significant" damage to Yugoslav tanks from nato bombing. After the fighting, most destroyed "tanks" were found to be crude wooden fakes. NATO officials later conceded that many war claims had been knowingly exaggerated to impress public opinion...
...Taliban spent three years fighting for Mazar-i-Sharif, precisely because its capture would confirm them as masters of all Afghanistan. And that they are no longer. Sources reached by TIME inside the city on Friday confirmed claims by Northern Alliance generals Rashid Dostum and Ustad Atta Mohammed to have recaptured Mazar-i-Sharif. Taliban forces reportedly withdrew from the city after a bloody 90-minute battle at its southern entrance which began late in the afternoon, local time, triggering jubilant celebrations among the townspeople whose ethnic and political affinities are with the Northern Alliance...
...After lunch, I travel quickly to Islamabad for a meeting with a food expert, answering her who, what, where, when questions. After the meeting my Afghan colleague and I talk about the earlier phone calls, and again confirm that the voices inside Afghanistan need to play a lead role in helping to resolve the current Afghan crisis. We call them again and make plans to ring again tomorrow...