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...this shadowy war, the Taliban's intelligence chief, Qari Ahmadullah, has scored some impressive hits. His biggest coup: catching Abdul Haq, 43, the Pashtun commander who slipped into Afghanistan two weeks ago to lay the groundwork for a revolt against the Taliban. Afghan sources tell TIME that Taliban spies dangled a juicy piece of bait in front of Haq: several regional Taliban commanders were ready to defect...
...trap. As soon as Haq crossed over the mountains on horseback into Logar province, he was tailed by Taliban operatives who captured him on Oct. 21 and, after hours of interrogation, shot him and two of his comrades. Six of Haq's men are still under arrest, along with 20 other supporters--dousing U.S. and Pakistani hopes of an uprising among the country's Pashtun tribesmen. Haq's execution, says a foreign diplomat in Islamabad, "will make any tribal chieftain hesitate before turning against the Taliban." Ahmadullah couldn't hide his glee. In a satellite-telephone interview with a Peshawar...
...Bush administration made a mistake in not channeling the war on terrorism through the United Nations. The bombing of Afghanistan, he tells TIME, is "really affecting people's consciences" and "creating opposition to the U.S. position." In concrete terms, Turki says, "if someone like (assassinated rebel leader) Abdul Haq comes and says, 'Join us in supporting the U.S. against Al Qaeda,' it won't make sense... for an Afghan who sees his neighbor's house being destroyed by an American bomb." Turki says that a U.N. effort to support an alternative Afghan government would have rallied Afghans against Bin Laden...
...American military, Haq's demise was a humbling end to a humbling week. Since the beginning of the campaign, the President's men have reminded Americans that this "new" kind of conflict could end up being as protracted as the cold war. And yet for a while the war seemed to be following a faster script--precision bombs clearing the way for a quick ground operation. After less than two weeks, the Pentagon was claiming that its bombs had "eviscerated" the Taliban's military capability. But last week that optimism faded. Dreams of a hit-and-run war gave...
...last month nearly ended in disaster when, as TIME reported last week, U.S. commandos were ambushed by Taliban guerrillas. A central piece of the U.S. strategy--to grease the gates of entry into southern Afghanistan by turning tribal leaders and warlords against the Taliban--may have died along with Haq. His capture also highlighted the treachery of the Taliban's network of spies in Pakistan, who will try to tip off holy warriors in Kandahar to pending U.S. raids. In American war rooms, that reality--and the memories of Beirut and Mogadishu--haunts military strategists. As long as the public...