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...meantime, he and Mann continue to organize tours to sites like Bamian and Qala-i-Jangi, a 19th century fortress some 12 miles (20 km) outside Mazar and one of the sites of final resistance by the Taliban against the Northern Alliance and the U.S.-led forces in 2001. Today, the bullet holes along the walls of the fortress remain unplastered. Shoib Najafizada, Afghan Logistics and Tours' man in Mazar, leads visitors around the rusty remnants of tanks and heavy artillery that lie strewn around. Like other guides, Najafizada offers firsthand accounts of some of the key moments...
Person of the Week In the end, the 21-year-old kid with the close-cropped hair bore little resemblance to the wild-eyed, unkempt American Taliban captured by U.S. forces in Qala-i-Jangi, Afghanistan. JOHN WALKER LINDH pleaded guilty to aiding the enemy-the Taliban-and got 20 years in prison, killing what might have been the first major trial in the war on terror...
...TIME ASIA primarily as a travel writer last year, turned out to be different. He not only asked to cover the Afghan war but became one of the first journalists to reach Mazar-i-Sharif after it fell. He was the only reporter to stay at the Qala-i-Jangi fort when prisoners rioted. Now the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund has named Perry the first recipient of its War Correspondents Award. Perry deserves a vacation, and he surely knows where to take...
There doesn't seem to be much doubt now that Yasser Esam Hamdi was born on the bayou. Or that Hamdi and alleged Taliban turncoat John Walker Lindh were among the holdouts in the Qala-i-Jangi prison riot that day, raising the possibility that the two knew each other. But they were separated immediately after capture because Lindh needed medical attention and Hamdi didn't appear to be injured. In February Hamdi was shipped off to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with other suspected al-Qaeda men. "From the very beginning, there was a possibility in everyone's mind that...
...newsmagazine. We're up for awards in the categories of Single-Topic Issue (for our 9/11 special edition, which featured a 28-page picture portfolio and Nancy Gibbs' story about that horrific, chaotic day), Reporting (for Alex Perry's piece last December on the prisoner uprising at Qala-I-Jangi, which claimed the life of CIA agent Johnny Micheal Spann) and General Excellence. We're also up for Design and Photography, the only magazine nominated for both. ASMES are generally considered to be the Oscars of the magazine world, but as wonderful as the news is, it only confirms what...