Word: haji
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...shelter around a power plant and a fertilizer factory; they believed the U.S. wouldn't hit the factory because doing so could send deadly ammonia fumes into the air. After a meeting with Atta Thursday night, Dostum initiated skirmishes with the Taliban. On Friday morning, the two met with Haji Mohammed Mohaqiq, who commands anti-Taliban Hazara fighters, to plan a three-pronged attack on Taliban positions ringing the city. A group of rebels surprised the Taliban by veering off the main road into Mazar and advancing from the southwest, through a rugged mountain pass known as the "gorge...
...people in Mazar-i-Sharif were very happy when we marched in," Haji Jamil, an aide to General Mohammed, told TIME. "They sacrificed many sheep, because many of the soldiers were originally from Mazar and their families were still living in the city, so they sacrificed the sheep in front of them." Alliance commanders claim to have killed some 250 Taliban, most of them Pakistani and Arab volunteers, and captured a further 500, although none of these claims can be verified. Rather than fight to the finish, however, Alliance commanders say the Taliban retreated north and east after a fierce...
...Haji Zaman spent years fighting as a mujahedin commander during the anti-Soviet war. But when the Taliban came to power, he scurried into exile in France. Now fortunes are shifting again, and Zaman has come back to the frontier city of Peshawar, Pakistan, to join others looking to grab power after the Taliban falls. Sitting in the shady, walled garden of his villa last week, Zaman said, "We don't need meetings and more meetings. Now we need practical action...
...import-export business. It was a dusty shop front with a very large carpet and no furniture other than a few bolsters. It didn't look like much, but appearances in this part of the world can be deceptive. Ostentation attracts envy - and trouble. It turns out this merchant, Haji Amanullah, and his brothers are very rich and very famous around these parts. They live in a 130-room palace outside Chaman and have offices in Tokyo, Dubai, Quetta and Karachi. He's going to Paris next week to buy lots of tires, and he mentions the name...
...Afghans. They will fight among themselves until kingdom come, but as soon as an outside force comes in, they will come together." Opposition leaders now sound much more nationalistic and less friendly to Americans than they were a week ago. If the U.S. sends in ground troops, says Haji Almaz, a 23-year war veteran who is a commander on the Kabul front, "the Afghan people will greet them in exactly the same way as they welcomed the Soviets...