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...noon sermon at the Halqa Cherif mosque. The mosque houses a robe said to have belonged to the Prophet Muhammad, so Omar must have figured the Americans would never bomb it. U.S. commanders may have known he was there. An eyewitness told TIME that American warplanes blitzed a convoy that may have been shepherding Omar as it left Kandahar, killing several Taliban bodyguards...
...Then the talk turned to logistics: would it be easier to smuggle the missiles across to China (via Pakistan, though the bribes would be heavy)? Or risk going to Iran? The idea of dragging unexploded missiles through a war zone with U.S. fighter jets strafing any suspicious convoy on the roads just added to the challenge. Besides, the rewards were to die for. Lakhs and lakhs of dollars...
...Islamabad. The Taliban, despite their fierce zealousness, are not adverse to making a few dollars, too. And we hacks are happy to oblige. Last week, a convoy of 15 or so foreign journalists was escorted into Jalalabad by the Taliban to see a village that had reportedly been hit by several bombs. It was the first time journalists were allowed into Afghanistan, and you can imagine how that whetted the appetite of the remaining 1,600 of us left behind, especially among the TV networks. The Taliban announced a second convoy for this week or the next...
...There's a frenzied desperation among us for stories. When the first convoy reached Jalalabad, two smart-alecky Afghan kids came up to the group. They spoke decent English, and they went around to journalists pretending to be spokesmen for the local chapter of bin Laden's terrorist network, Al-Qaeda. Everyone told the kids to get lost - except for one U.S. news network. The interview went out as a world exclusive. Ethically, I suppose it beats selling slightly dented Cruise missiles to the Chinese...
...explosive strike against al-Qaeda, his terror network. Inserted deep into the mountainous terrain, the teams have been working various parts of the country, usually at night. A handful of pilotless drone airplanes backs them up, working the skies over the country, looking for hints--a small convoy kicking up dust, for example--of bin Laden or his allies. And though most of the fighters the U.S. is seeking may now be well out of sight of the drones or commandos, military planners tell TIME they hope to change that by applying some pressure: launching disruptive tactical air strikes...