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...many Afghans, the ?favorable resolution? would be Rahman?s execution. It?s not only the country?s conservative clergy that is calling for his death. "He has brought shame on the name of Afghanistan and deserves to die," said Daud Massoud, 37, a taxi driver in Kabul. That sentiment resonates strongest in the country?s deeply conservative south and east, over which Kabul exercises little control. These are also the areas where the Taliban is making a comeback and top Al-Qaeda commanders are believed to be hiding...
...which midwifed the Taliban in its early years, are conspiring with the religious parties that govern Pakistan's border regions to create a safe haven for Taliban commanders and a launching pad for attacks--including around 25 suicide bombings in the past six months--throughout Afghanistan. Helmand Governor Mohammed Daud told TIME he believes that Mullah Osmani, a Taliban leader, is recruiting and training fighters at the Girdi Jungle refugee camp in Pakistan's Baluchistan province, which abuts Helmand...
...Moderate religious teachers acknowledge that some of their fellow ustaz are pushing their students to martyrdom. But they say it is almost impossible to prevent. "I have 300 students," says Syed Daud, a genial 55-year-old ustaz who wears a traditional white cloth turban and runs a school in the countryside near the town of Yala. "But how can you stop five of them being lured away by people who promise they'll go to heaven or won't be hurt by bullets...
...like a Sultan's palace, landscaped with pools and pavilions and tended by a large retinue of servants. If there are any in Tembi opposed to the rule of its high-minded foreign potentate, they keep it to themselves. One of the company's foremen, a Tembi native called Daud Subroto, has worked for Purser for seven years. "Before, people in Tembi were only farmers. Now they have good jobs," he says...
...heads like bandannas, she recalled, and they "seemed happy." Their bullet-shattered victims were almost unrecognizable. The woman held her face in her hands at the memory. "It was terrible," she moaned. "So much blood." Two of the dead, she said, were just schoolboys?Annas Nazir, 11, and Dedi Daud, 13. Her account of the massacre was echoed by a 49-year-old man who had watched from a hiding place among nearby palm trees. When I asked if he was related to any of the dead, his face crumpled. "Yes," he replied hoarsely. "Five of them were cousins." Then...