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...proportionate" to the threat it represented. Such concerns may ring a little in a country whose wars have never been fought according to Geneva Convention rules. They may not be paid much heed in the U.S., either, where the major media focus has been on "Mike" Spann as a heroic first American combat casualty in the war against the perpetrators of the September 11 atrocity. But the British media and important sections of London's political establishment are saying that the "Afghan way of war" notwithstanding, the role of British and U.S. soldiers at Qalai Janghi demands an inquiry into...
...volunteers at Kunduz may be more inclined to fight to the death, knowing well that the difference between surrender and defiance may simply be the difference between a heroic death and a humiliating one - even though many of their Afghan Taliban comrades may simply surrender. For the movement's surviving leadership, a retreat for the mountains and a protracted guerrilla campaign appears to be the only survival option facing the battered militia, even as a number of its senior leaders were reportedly captured by opposition forces Friday. They've also shrewdly handed over the southern cities to rival Pashtun forces...
...striven his entire life only for calm, order and self-preservation. When he becomes associated with the people he hates, he comes eventually to realize several things about the nature of prejudice and the experience of being victimized mentally and physically. However, his actions are by no means heroic, and so Focus sends a powerful message which applies to all humanity and all forms of hate...
...line that will be remembered long after the applause from the speech died down, the President quoted the last words of one heroic passenger on the flight that went down in Pennsylvania. The man, the President recalled, intoned the Lord's Prayer, and then, turning to his fellow passengers, "Let's roll." "My fellow Americans," Bush said, his eyes misting slightly, "let's roll...
...plans were sent further into disarray on Friday when Abdul Haq, a heroic mujahedin commander who lost his right foot fighting Soviet occupation in the 1980s, was captured by the Taliban and hanged in Azra, south of Kabul. Haq had entered Afghanistan to drum up support for a multiethnic government among his own people, the Pashtun of the south, but was captured as he tried to escape on horseback under cover of U.S. air strikes. Haq had feared that the bombing campaign would jeopardize his efforts to win support from Pashtuns - the Northern Alliance is mainly supported by ethnic Uzbeks...