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...however, was impatient. The special forces charged with pinpointing targets for bomber pilots were slow to take up their positions. And the Northern Alliance, on which the CIA's Tenet had staked so much of his plan, looked as if it was flaking out. Its leader, General Mohammed Qassim Fahim, seemed more interested in taking empty hills than in fighting the enemy. "The truth is that Fahim for the longest time wasn't moving," says a White House official. "He wasn't moving west into Kunduz, and he wasn't moving south into Kabul...
...Bush asked. Franks did not have the right answer. The weather had been poor, and the U.S. spotters were stranded on the ground in Uzbekistan. The State Department was having difficulty getting permission to use Uzbek territory as a staging site. And the CIA was still seeking assurances from Fahim that U.S. soldiers would be integrated and protected. "We were marrying a First World force with a Fourth World army," says Secretary of State Powell. "It was taking time to connect." Bush, aides said, was unsatisfied and told his team to pick up the pace. Within days, the State Department...
...Northern Alliance is committed to it, but the group's various factions are not of one mind. "It's just a ragbag of different forces," a senior British official says of the alliance. He says its Uzbek faction rejects the group's new military commander, General Mohammed Fahim, successor to the charismatic Ahmed Shah Massoud, who was assassinated Sept. 9. The Uzbeks do support a loya jirga, as do some other commanders, like Yousnou Kanuni from the Jamiat faction. But others, like Abdul Rasul Sayyaf of the Ittehad-i-Islami, don't. The alliance's titular foreign minister, Abdullah Abdullah...
...removal of Massoud from his stronghold has presented the already splintered Northern Alliance with a leadership crisis at a critical juncture. The embattled guerrillas hold only one remaining province?northeastern Badakhashan?and Massoud's native Panjshir Valley. Attempting to fill Massoud's place as overall commander is Mohammad Fahim, a 44-year-old Panjshiri regarded as a competent military commander who lacks his former boss's magnetism and political flair...
Michael P. Abate Deborah A. Abeles Brian T. Abrams Michael S. Abramson Jaylaan Ahmad-Llewellyn Fahim Ahmed Stephanie N. Ajudua Rima Al-Mokarrab Michael E. Aldous Georgia N. Alexakis Jen J. B. Allen James A. Allison Elise B. Alschuler Mia C. R. Alvar Maneesh R. Amancharla Christopher A. Amar Jessie M. Amberg Richard H. Amberg Caitlin E. Anderson Blair M. Andresen Becky M. Antar Azunna E. Anyanwu Christina E. Anzuoni Patrick R. Aquino Ethan D. S. Ard Adam I. Arenson Eric R. Ashley David C. Atherton William F. Austin Erin L. Autry Irina Babushkina Daniel B. Baer Anna M. Baldwin...