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...officials have said the full force of the U.S. military will be used to punish those responsible for yesterday’s attacks, as well as those who countries who have protected terrorists, such as Afghanistan. Early last night, explosions were reported in Kabul, Afghanistan, but the U.S. government has denied any role in those incidents...
...appeared defensive. The Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan hinted Wednesday that the movement would consider extraditing Bin Laden after weighing the evidence against him, but they made a similar promise after the 1998 East Africa embassy bombings to no avail. Still, the missiles that exploded in the Afghan capital Kabul overnight Tuesday turned out to have come not from the U.S. but from the Taliban's domestic foes, as part of that country's ongoing civil...
...goes. In Johnson’s reports, the possible and the impossible are always made to hold hands. In Kabul, Afghanistan, he stays behind to witness the takeover by the new religious faction, and finds himself one of a few occupants of a sumptuous and largely abandoned hotel. “The new faction has outlawed all music, but they’re not bothered if I play the jazz program on the BBC, because, as a Westerner, I’m past all punishment, I can’t be saved, I’m going to hell...
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...announced target that has caused the most serious and concerted outcry from other nations, including some Muslim ones like Pakistan, is at Bamiyan, about 100 miles northwest of Kabul. There, in a valley, about a mile of soft-stone cliff is honeycombed with caves, many of them bearing ancient Buddhist wall paintings dating back to around the 4th to the 5th century A.D. The core of this already much defaced religious center, as it once was, consists of two gigantic standing figures of Buddha, recessed into the cliffs sometime between the 3rd and 6th centuries. The larger of them...