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Gone to Ground Anticipating U.S. strikes, Taliban leader Mohammed Omar has reportedly left his headquarters in Kandahar and joined Taliban fighters in their mountain retreats...
...exactly 24 hours after the first airstrikes began, U.S. warplanes began a second round of attacks against military sites in Afghanistan. Pentagon officials confirm the second wave of strikes is targeting areas similar to those hit in Sunday's attacks; new explosions have been reported near the city of Kandahar, for example, which was bombarded over the weekend...
...matter of hours, Kandahar had become one of the most dangerous places on earth: both the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and suspected Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden have houses there. "What are you waiting for?" a neighbor yelled at Barasna. "It's suicide to stay here." A turbaned Taliban commander in a Land Cruiser roared by, kicking up dust, heading for the moonlit road across the desert to Pakistan. "Look at the Taliban run," the neighbor shouted before running inside to pack his belongings. Later that night, Barasna, an energetic woman in her early 30s, donned her head...
...made it across the border to Pakistan. They were among the lucky ones. A few days later, Islamabad sealed off the frontier crossings, to block any new wave of refugees trying to get in before an expected U.S. attack against terrorist targets. At the Chaman frontier post southeast of Kandahar, and at Torkham, about 600 km north in the Khyber Pass, there were scenes of panic. When Afghans started crawling through the barbed-wire fencing, the Pakistani police attacked with whips and clubs, herding frightened families back across the border like dumb cattle. Some enraged Afghans responded with a barrage...
...Back on the outskirts of Kandahar, the Taliban is stopping families at gunpoint and turning them back from the road to Pakistan. Muammer Zahir, a twentysomething truck driver, was able to dodge the checkpoint. "What will the Americans attack?" he asks. "Our houses are already destroyed by years of fighting." U.N. officials say the Taliban is still letting some women and children head toward the frontier?but only after the men traveling in the party are forcibly conscripted. Relief officials have coined a new word to describe these poor Afghans: the "internally stuck." And nobody wants to be stuck...