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...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...
...Going In Oct. 29, 2001 ----------------- The Fear Factor Oct. 22, 2001 ----------------- Facing the Fury Oct. 15, 2001 ----------------- How Real Is the Threat? Oct. 8, 2001 ----------------- Life on the Home Front Oct. 1, 2001 ----------------- One Nation, Indivisible Sept. 24, 2001 ----------------- Day of Infamy Sept. 14, 2001 PHOTO ESSAYS Kabul Unveiled Taliban on the Run More Photos >>> MORE STORIES Where's OBL: Letter from Tora Bora Anthrax: Where the Investigation Stands TIME/CNN POLL: Americans Standing By Bush's War More Stories...
...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...
...hospital in Herat. But the next day he sent his spokeswoman out to concede that "it is possible" a 1,000-lb. bomb from a U.S. F-18 accidentally damaged the hospital. The U.S. has also acknowledged dropping two 500-pounders in a residential area north of Kabul. On Friday American warplanes blitzing Kabul successfully leveled a target selected by Pentagon planners. But the target turned out to be a Red Cross warehouse--the same one the U.S. had hit by mistake 10 days earlier...
...Going In Oct. 29, 2001 ----------------- The Fear Factor Oct. 22, 2001 ----------------- Facing the Fury Oct. 15, 2001 ----------------- How Real Is the Threat? Oct. 8, 2001 ----------------- Life on the Home Front Oct. 1, 2001 ----------------- One Nation, Indivisible Sept. 24, 2001 ----------------- Day of Infamy Sept. 14, 2001 PHOTO ESSAYS Kabul Unveiled Taliban on the Run More Photos >>> MORE STORIES Where's OBL: Letter from Tora Bora Anthrax: Where the Investigation Stands TIME/CNN POLL: Americans Standing By Bush's War More Stories...