Word: kabul
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...RELEASED. United Nations workers ANGELITO NAYAN, 34, of the Philippines, ANNETTE FLANIGAN, 43, of Northern Ireland, and SHQIPE HEBIBI, 36, of Kosovo; after being kidnapped by Habib Noorzad, a splinter faction of the Taliban; in Kabul. The three had helped organize Afghanistan's landmark Oct. 9 election and were abducted at gunpoint on Oct. 28. The captors said the government had agreed to release 24 Taliban prisoners in exchange for the hostages, a claim that was denied by Afghan Interior Minister Ahmed Ali Jalali...
Mullah Mujahed, a veteran Taliban commander who has taken four bullets in his career as an Islamic warrior, is in a surprisingly good mood for a guy sharing a Kabul jail cell with a hungry rat. A burly figure with black locks and a black beard, Mujahed prays in a corner, oblivious to the progress of the rat as it tunnels under a gray blanket toward a bag of dates. Rising from prayer, the devout Taliban says through the bars of the cell, "When I was on jihad, the holy Prophet Muhammad talked to me in my dreams...
...Taliban commanders who have fled into hiding in the country, according to Afghan officials and Taliban fighters and sympathizers in the frontier Pakistani cities of Quetta and Peshawar. Those exiles include Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed mullah who formerly led the Taliban. Pakistan's reluctance, according to a senior Kabul official, stems from its "nostalgia" for when Afghanistan was firmly within its orbit of influence. Letting the Taliban remain free gives Pakistan a card to play if or when the U.S. decides to vacate Afghanistan. "If money and support were to stop from the Pakistani side, the Taliban would...
...mountainous provinces where they can disarm the warlords and build roads, schools and clinics. Armor-plated aid is needed to thrust into the southern and eastern regions where Taliban rebels find it easy to recruit Pashtun tribesmen who have received little relief from international agencies. Western diplomats in Kabul say that, at most, the Taliban, along with their allies al-Qaeda and renegade commander Gulbuddin Hek-matyar, are capable of harassing coalition and Afghan forces but not of conquering back towns and provinces...
...should discourage Musharraf from playing a double game with the Taliban. Some influential elements inside the Pakistani intelligence service and the military remain convinced that they can influence events in Afghanistan to Pakistan's benefit by backing the Taliban. Officials in Kabul are perplexed that Pakistan has failed to capture a single top Taliban commander, although U.S. and Afghan officials have evidence that dozens of rebel chiefs are living openly in the Pakistani border towns of Quetta and Peshawar. There is the perception in Kabul that, as one Afghan official put it, "if Islamabad can't have a satellite government...