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...Khwaja has a powerful pair of lungs. "Hey, mullahs!" he bellows across no-man's land. "Ragheads! Have you said your prayers yet?" Out of the half-light come return salvos of insults and laughter. It's the beginning of another day in a war that, north of Kabul, has yet to begin...
...When it does Allah Mahmad expects to advance quickly on Kabul. "Just days," he says. His men will be reinforced by the thousands of troops that have been massing in the Panjshir Valley and the northern end of the Shomali Plain. But the Taliban and its Arab and Pakistani allies have also been reinforcing their front lines, digging new bunkers within sight of the 40th Division base. How many of Allah Mahmad's men die in the impending offensive hinges on whether, in the coming days, American bombing increases its intensity and moves closer to the lines...
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...Afghanistan, former mujahedin who have come to fight a jihad. "We have become hostages of the Arabs," says Nek Mohammad, a driver. Several of the Kandaharis I spoke to claim there are thousands of Arabs in the country. I was told that a number of Arabs traveled to Kabul this past week to implore Afghans to join the fight. "We are Arabs," they said. "We have no place to go from here. We will either win or die. If we die, you adopt our children, you adopt our daughters as your sisters. You can also marry our women...
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