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...home where Haq was staying. Early Friday morning Taliban troops surrounded him on three sides. Cut off in the Khyber Pass, Haq placed a call on his satellite phone to his nephew in Pakistan; word of Haq's distress soon reached the CIA. As Haq tried to escape on horseback, the U.S. sent an unmanned Predator surveillance plane to shoot a Hellfire missile at his pursuers. It missed. Soon after the Taliban captured Haq. He was taken to Kabul and executed...
...When the push finally came, Atta's bravado was thoroughly exposed. On Monday evening, he and Dostum sent their men forward on foot and horseback, armed with AK-47s. Almost immediately they met resistance from the better-manned and better-armed Taliban. Depending on which account of the battle you believe, it was at best a defeat, at worst a rout. What is certain is that the reversal set the tone for a very bad week for the ragtag coalition of warlords ranged against the Taliban...
...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 and Tajiks - and moderates among the Taliban. The continuing U.S air raids misfired again on Friday, when they...
...home where Haq was staying. Early Friday morning Taliban troops surrounded him on three sides. Cut off in the Khyber Pass, Haq placed a call on his satellite phone to his nephew in Pakistan; word of Haq's distress soon reached the CIA. As Haq tried to escape on horseback, the U.S. sent an unmanned Predator surveillance plane to shoot a Hellfire missile at his pursuers. It missed. Soon after the Taliban captured Haq. He was taken to Kabul and executed...
Wonderful enough that they are willing to drive their pickups and horse trailers for a 12-hr. stretch every week, sometimes for a mere 7-sec. horseback ride. "People think we're nuts," says Ernest Forsberg, 58, a team roper and president of the N.S.P.R.A., "but I look at most people our age, and they're out of shape because they've quit doing what they love. None of us plan to quit...