Word: kabul
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There are of course other--easier--ways to clean out the "roaches," and for these the U.S. grasped last week. The simplest scenario would be if the Taliban agreed to hand over bin Laden. U.S. diplomats have been careful to leave the Kabul government some ways to save face, insisting carefully, for example, that bin Laden be turned in to "appropriate authorities," which gives the Taliban a chance to surrender bin Laden to an Islamic state instead of to the U.S. Nearly every "last chance" offered to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, though, has been met with a denunciation...
...long ignored the United Front are eager to plot cooperation. Russian generals muster Soviet-era equipment familiar to the fighters for immediate shipment. Iranian advisers, who steadily kept the rebel forces alive, promise more money and materiel. Afghan fighters, stalled for years just 30 miles from the capital of Kabul, see their dream of retaking the city within reach...
...trip by helicopter and four-wheel drive from the northeast border to this hill town, 5,250 ft. above sea level and 38 miles from Kabul, displays the country in all its harsh beauty. The helicopter makes its way between mountains, not above them, a few dozen feet above the lower peaks, a few hundred from the cliffs on each side. There is no room for error. The roads are no less a challenge. The unpaved single-track trail from the helicopter pad at Astana in the Panjshir Valley--a United Front stronghold--winds between a fast-moving river...
...Islamabad, Pakistan My first stop is the Afghan embassy where I, along with 800 other journalists, submit visa application forms for Kabul. We're told to check back in two weeks--i.e., forget about it. The only reason the Taliban might let hordes of journalists in is to use them as human shields against a U.S. attack. An ominous thought...
...hired a taxi to take us to Kabul. After two days of inquiries, we learned that fighting around Bamiyan had stopped a month before and we would be the first foreign visitors since the Buddhas were destroyed. Ten hours north in the back of a truck brought us to a stop where a group of Taliban fighters escorted us to a stone-and-mud compound. In each corner stood a militiaman armed with a locally made AK-47 assault rifle and guarding piles of ammunition and missiles loosely stacked against a wall. We sat on the ground and tensely drank...