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...were looking to disappear, the Afghan province of Helmand would be the place to do it. Hundreds of miles of desert, hills and mountains are interrupted only by the occasional huddle of mud-brick houses. The remote village of Musa Qal'eh in Helmand is still Taliban country. When Kandahar fell last month, as many as 1,500 Taliban fighters and their leaders are thought to have passed through the village. One of them may have been Mullah Mohammed Omar, the former ruler of Afghanistan and America's second-most-wanted...
...Even with the Taliban gone, bin Laden has the right connections to disappear. His fairy godfather in the Tora Bora region is a warlord named Younis Khalis, who invited him to Afghanistan in 1996 after even Sudan didn't want him. Khalis lives in an adobe compound a short distance from Jalalabad on the road to Tora Bora. He was close with the Taliban, which used his land as a parking lot for its tanks - more than a dozen of them were blown apart by US missiles and now lie wrecked on Khalis's land. Khalis himself...
...level that the cuts in the funding are at now, we would have no problem making up the difference,” Parks said. “If all the [state] money were to disappear, we may have to sit back and think about things...
Another area in which the Bush Administration is likely to face prolonged criticism is the secrecy of its detentions. Even many who believe the roundups are justified are troubled that the government won't say whom it's holding. Critics say that having people disappear into government custody smacks of authoritarianism--and conjures up memories of the desaparecidos, the dissidents who mysteriously disappeared in 1970s Argentina. Such secrecy makes it difficult to verify that the detentions are justified...
...rights grab on all these different fronts will be with us forever. Congress insisted on applying the sunset rule to many provisions of the U.S.A. Patriot Act, the main new law to come out of the Sept. 11 attacks: if they are not passed again in four years, they disappear. But unlike Roosevelt's 1942 military-tribunal order, which authorized just one trial, Bush's order on tribunals has no end date. Attorney-client monitoring is also open-ended...