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...mass for a counterattack. Alliance commanders are hoping their allies along the way will stop the retreating Taliban reaching Kabul. Rather than defend its remaining northern outposts such as Kunduz and Taloqan in territory that, like Mazar-i-Sharif, is tribally and militarily hostile to the mostly Pashtun fundamentalist movement, the Taliban may instead concentrate its forces for a battle to hold on to the capital, where they have more support among the local population as well as thousands of reinforcements newly arrived from Pakistan over the past four weeks...
...understand why the Taliban is so tenacious, consider this: some of its frontline troops are the same sort of men who steered planes into buildings on Sept. 11. The key to the regime's resistance is a shadowy band of Arab holy warriors trained by Osama bin Laden--a fundamentalist foreign legion known as Brigade...
...critique he has written about the U.S. He visits the Michigan Militia, Republican political rallies, an abortion clinic and the execution of Texas’s prettiest psychopath, Karla Faye Tucker. He is typically Canadian in his incredulity at the American right wing, particularly at its overt courtship of fundamentalist Christians. He mocks the diminutive Christian zealot Gary Bauer, who ran for president in 2000. Executions are rejected as illogical and bloodthirsty; the militia leader is simply psychotic. And he points out a few nonpolitical neuroses: the American compulsion, for example, to eat fatty foods, grow monstrously obese and lust...
...teachings of the Koran are incompatible with acts of terrorism. But acting largely out of fear that support for America would trigger a fundamentalist backlash, Saudi Arabia—our “ally”—has refused to block terrorist assets. “It is time for the United States and Saudi Arabia to look at their separate interests,” the Saudi crown prince wrote to President George W. Bush last week, offering a revealing glimpse of the Saudi sentiment. “Those governments that don’t feel the pulse...
...Luxor, Egypt, the leaders of al-Qaeda last spring heatedly debated whether to begin using biological and chemical weapons. Taha, his associate confides, opposed such deployment, arguing that these uncontrollable weapons would immediately mobilize international opinion against Islamist militants. That, he maintained, would transform their reputation from defenders of fundamentalist Islam and the Arab cause--an image al-Qaeda has cultivated by championing martyred children in Palestine and Iraq--to executioners and criminals against humanity. The debate, according to the London source, was won by the executioner wing...