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...momentum of this counterattack carried Massoud's forces through the village of Charikar, where Mohammed Zahid Pashtun, 26, another Pakistani fighter, was stationed. A devout Muslim and former engineering student, Zahid says he signed up for combat duty with a Pakistani intelligence officer and was given 40 days of training. He eventually reached Charikar, where Afghan civilians, who initially welcomed the Taliban, revolted after just 11 days of repressive rule, outraged by a draconian regime that bars women from working outside the home. Also outlawed are movies, music and chess. Captured, he now says he regrets his role. "I heard...
...Taliban acknowledged only 70 arrests for looting and defended their actions as necessary to transform Afghanistan into a devout Islamic state. But it is still a shadowy one. Last week the Taliban's leader, Maulana Mohammad Omar, a one-eyed former cleric who is also known as Commander of the Faithful, had yet to make an appearance, running the capital from his base 300 miles to the south in Kandahar. And the Taliban aren't finished fighting. The forces of ousted President Burhanuddin Rabbani, led by former Army Chief Ahmad Shah Massoud, are holed up 31 miles north of Kabul...
...during the "tunnel" riots of two weeks ago, there were incidents of murder and sacrilege. One occurred in Nablus, an Arab town under P.L.O. control. There is in Nablus a Jewish religious site, Joseph's Tomb. Under the P.L.O.-Israeli peace accords, it remained a tiny enclave peopled by devout Jews and, for protection, a few Israeli soldiers. On Sept. 26, it was attacked by a Palestinian mob throwing firebombs. Six Israelis were killed. Many prayer books were burned...
What immediately struck me in the "convention hall" was how similar everything seemed to the gathering I had just attended in San Diego. The state identification cards were the same three-sided posters encasing a pole. The pictures showed similarly devout throngs of supporters. And the "election room" footage from the night Kennedy won seemed identical to our modern coverage, except it was in black-and-white...
...delicately nuanced, so much so that it can be read simultaneously as the nihilistic sequel to "The Waste Land" and as the first stirring of Eliot's Anglican religious poetry. Some of the images Eliot uses--such as the "multifoliate rose" and the quotations from liturgy--prefigure his highly devout late poems, the "Four Quartets." That's certainly not the idea that one gets from "The Hollowmen," which, as far as I could make out, doesn't actually include the entire poem, instead focusing on some of its most vivid, garish passages...