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...having been released to recuperate from an “illness” brought on by hunger strike, he escaped from the house British police were so intently watching, and traveled to Germany via Kabul, where he eventually gained recognition from the Axis Powers and tentative support for his plans against their common enemy...
...boycott the poll, because, it said, it would not be able to compete on a level playing field with President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party. Lost in a Storm AFGHANISTAN Officials said all 104 people on board an Afghan airliner that crashed in bad weather near Kabul were feared dead. Into Exile? CAMBODIA Opposition leader Sam Rainsy fled to Paris after the Cambodian National Assembly stripped him and two other M.P.s of parliamentary immunity. Rainsy, who is charged with defaming senior government figures, said he would return once he received details of the allegations against him. MEANWHILE...
...attacks, reportedly lent its support to Abbas' call for a cease-fire. In from the Cold AFGHANISTAN As part of an initiative to end the Taliban insurgency, the U.S. military released 81 suspected members of the group from its detention center at Bagram air base north of Kabul. Afghan authorities have offered low-ranking Taliban an amnesty in the hope of inducing them to lay down their arms...
...cold, the U.S. State Department is revving up a new publicity blitz to remind Afghans and Pakistanis of the $25 million bounty for al-Qaeda's chief. Bin Laden is still thought to be hiding somewhere along the 1,640-mile, mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border, but intelligence officials in Kabul and Islamabad say there has been no trace of him for the past 20 months. By the end of February, the White House is expected to double the sum on bin Laden's head, to $50 million, acting on legislation passed in November by Congress...
Lately there have been signs that many Taliban and their supporters may be losing their zeal for war. From his Kabul jail cell, Mujahed says he has had enough fighting. "Let others do the jihad," he says. "Me, I'm exhausted." If Pakistan really started to do all it could to crack down on the Taliban, it might find that fatigue among those battle-weary warriors would finish off the job. --With reporting by Muhib Habibi/Kandahar, Ghulam Hasnain/ Quetta and Rahimullah Yusufzai/Peshawar