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...offices?the group's ever-busy Department of Vice and Virtue was damaged in the last two weeks?and has relocated to mosques or occupied the houses of ordinary people in congested neighborhoods. "They know the U.S. won't hit a mosque," says Abdul Ghafoor, 45, a truck driver. Locals claim that Arab allies of Osama bin Laden and the Taliban have lodged themselves in buildings left empty by various NGOs and U.N.-affiliated organizations, which were vacated when the U.S. attacks seemed inevitable...
...Afghan driver took me west of Kandahar, where U.S. jets had destroyed a Taliban training facility. The underground bunkers had been unearthed, and the compound's interior was pocked with craters. An old Russian truck was parked along one of the boundary walls; it seemed most military hardware had been removed before the attack...
...because so many people have fled. But residents are frightened and angry, and much of their scorn is reserved for the Taliban and for its Arab allies in Afghanistan, former mujahedin who have come to fight a jihad. "We have become hostages of the Arabs," says Nek Mohammad, a driver. Several of the Kandaharis I spoke to claim there are thousands of Arabs in the country. I was told that a number of Arabs traveled to Kabul this past week to implore Afghans to join the fight. "We are Arabs," they said. "We have no place to go from here...
...House van antics—26 percent: any PBHAer who had to ride to Dorchester in the red-12 will remember the Jammin’ 94.5 packed trips that somehow never ended in disaster. Tales of the monsters we tutored filled the three-bodies-over-capacity clunker, while the driver prayed the van would soon respond to his repeated brake pedal pumping and the 101-year-old lady swerving in front of us would just go away...
...Revenge and rivalry were the key words of this game,” junior driver Istvan Zollei said. “When they beat us, their team was really psyched, and it’s always been a very competitive between...