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...stop the flow to Kashmir of fighters trained by bin Laden. Iran, a nation of Shi'ite Muslims, detests the Taliban because it consists of Sunni extremists; moreover, Tehran has to deal both with Afghan refugees and with drug runners who have been fighting a low-level war with Iranian border guards. Iran itself has a history of sponsoring terrorism in the Middle East, and although its intelligence ministry is under the control of reformist President Mohammed Khatami, the security apparatus is not. But the government condemned last week's attacks in the U.S. (it was silent after the African...
...Massoud's head before unleashing the carnage in America, bin Laden had buttressed his alliance with them and effectively ensured his safe Afghan haven. "The Taliban will make noises to buy time, but they can't expel him," says Michael Barry, an American writer and expert on Afghan and Iranian affairs...
...boom is gone, the dot-coms are shuttered, the Age of Clinton has come to an end, and the time has come again to decide what kind of nation we will be. Will we be the America that our enemies—the bin Ladens and Iranian mullahs, the fascist despots of Beijing and the tinpot tyrants of the Third World—enjoy painting us as, the champion of depravity and crass materialism, of corporate bottom lines and gaudy, hyper-capitalist excess, the America whose culture drowns in a sea of sadism and sensuality? Or will...
...Iran is implacably hostile to the Taliban over that movement's extremist theology and over its killing of Afghan Shiite Muslims. In 1999, Iran almost went to war against the Taliban after its militia killed eight Iranian diplomats and a journalist after capturing a predominantly Shiite town, and has worked together with Russia to support anti-Taliban opposition forces. Despite the overtures between the reformist president Mohammed Khatami and the West on ways of cooperating against terrorism, hard-line spiritual leader Ayatollah Khameini insisted that while Iran condemned the terror strikes in the U.S., Tehran could not support U.S. military...
Instead, Johnson signed with tiny Enjoy Records, whose only goal was to sell a few copies of Brushfire Fairytales in surf shops and boutique record stores. The 50,000 albums sold on a production and promotion outlay equal to your average Iranian art film made for a tidy profit. Johnson has also managed to tear himself away from the beach long enough to do some sporadic touring with Ben Harper, though he hopes not to make a habit of it. Nor is he sure there will be another Jack Johnson record. "There's no ambitions musically. I like to just...