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...Russia: Heroin will keep the Taliban going...
...most miserable Toscanini’s date—so bad it was funny,” Marden said. “He took me out to coffee, which was fine, but then we went back to his house and all of his roommates were all doing heroin. I had no idea what to do; it was incredibly awkward and bizarre...
There are no hard numbers yet on how much the new climate may be increasing conviction rates. But lawyers nationwide are exchanging stories. In Houston a week after the attacks, a Mexican defendant convicted of delivering 40 lbs. of heroin was sentenced to 61 years, not the 30 he was expecting. "Everyone was shocked," says his lawyer, Stanley Schneider, who blames Sept. 11 backlash. Doug Allen, a Claremont, Calif., attorney, says he recently had his client--accused of trespassing in a restricted area and then trying to run down a security guard--plea-bargain. Before the attack, he would have...
...borderlands between Afghanistan and Pakistan have become home not only to millions of refugees, but also to countless rumors about the fate of the Taliban government inside Afghanistan. Everyone here, from Pakistani spies to Afghan heroin smugglers, has a different take on the future of Kabul's despotic clerics. And though much of the gossip about what is happening in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan--mass defections of soldiers, for instance--is just gossip, there are signs of weakness, hints that the tight core of men around Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar are at the very least anxious about what...
...Prophet Muhammad, seen publicly only two times previously in more than a millennium. The sight inspired Taliban foot soldiers for a final assault against Kabul in 1996. By then even the U.S. was quietly encouraging Pakistan and Saudi Arabia to back a movement they hoped might eliminate the heroin trade, open access for a gas pipeline and confine Shi'ite Iran...