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White House spokesman Ari Fleischer had begun to swat away questions about the stall in his daily briefings, but behind closed doors, even the President's top advisers were worried. They--no one will say who exactly--started kicking around the idea of putting more troops on the ground. "People...
So American commanders may be getting ready to boost the number of U.S. forces inside Afghanistan to hunt down their two biggest prey and prevent Taliban fighters from going underground. Last week some 1,500 Marines at Forward Operating Base Rhino fanned out across swaths of southern Afghanistan, blocking the...
The Taliban's final retreat was characteristically craven. Taliban sources told TIME that Omar "resisted handover until the end"--until his commanders turned against him--and then vanished. The bulk of the Afghan Taliban fled in the middle of the night to avoid reprisals by the tribal elders who immediately...
But there was no champagne in the allies' high command. Anti-Taliban forces in Kandahar led by Hamid Karzai, the interim Prime Minister of Afghanistan, failed to capture Omar. That left the U.S. and its allies embroiled in a two-front manhunt for the Taliban chief and his even more...
(3 of 3) The Taliban's final retreat was characteristically craven. Taliban sources told TIME that Omar "resisted handover until the end"?until his commanders turned against him?and then vanished. The bulk of the Afghan Taliban fled in the middle of the night to avoid reprisals by the tribal...