Word: diplomat
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...Inside Afghanistan, swelling ranks of humiliated Taliban commanders fell over themselves offering to give up bin Laden. "People are telling on Al-Qaeda's hideouts," said a diplomat in Pakistan. "They're being systematically annihilated." A Pakistani army officer told Time that the military and intelligence commands there enlisted former Taliban troops to track bin Laden. "We're certain he's still in Afghanistan," the source said Thursday. But by Saturday, a haze of conflicting reports had settled over the situation. The Taliban's envoy to Pakistan said bin Laden had left Afghanistan with his family--and then promptly took...
...informers inherited from KHAD--the feared secret police of the former Afghan communist regime--working alongside Muslim clerics in nearly every Afghan village. And it has no monolithic central headquarters that can be taken out with a missile. "The Taliban's command-and-control center," says a foreign diplomat, "is two mullahs sitting on a rug with a radio transmitter...
...after hours of interrogation, shot him and two of his comrades. Six of Haq's men are still under arrest, along with 20 other supporters--dousing U.S. and Pakistani hopes of an uprising among the country's Pashtun tribesmen. Haq's execution, says a foreign diplomat in Islamabad, "will make any tribal chieftain hesitate before turning against the Taliban." Ahmadullah couldn't hide his glee. In a satellite-telephone interview with a Peshawar journalist, he exulted, "Anyone who tries to enter Afghanistan will meet the same fate as Abdul...
...cocky-to find itself still standing after a month of war with America. U.S. officials believe that the Taliban has exploited the slackening of support among some U.S. allies to dissuade defectors and lure new recruits. "They feel they have the means to actually win this," says a U.S. diplomat in Pakistan. A Time reporter who spent three days in Kandahar last week interviewing key Taliban commanders and officials, including Tayeb Agha, spokesman for the supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, found the Taliban brass oozing bravado. No senior leaders, the officials claimed, have died from U.S. bombings. Omar...
...boss of ISI, Lieut. General Ehsan ul- Haq, is regarded as moderate, professional and without political ambition. But some wonder if he is ruthless enough to overhaul an agency still filled with Islamic sympathizers. ISI, says a diplomat, "has to be cut down to size...