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...high-level delegation is to travel to the Taliban’s headquarters in the southern city of Kandahar, the official said yesterday on condition of anonymity. Pakistan’s asserted “full support” of the United States and their allies will not include Pakistani military action...
...Still, the media's picture of Bin Laden sitting in a high-tech Batcave in the mountains around Kandahar ordering up global mayhem at the click of a mouse is more than a little ludicrous. Yes, the various networks of Islamist terror have made full use of the possibilities presented by technology and globalization. But few serious intelligence professionals believe Bin Laden is the puppet-master atop a pyramid structure of terror cells. It's really not that simple, but personalizing the threat - while it distorts both the nature of the problem and the remedy - is a time-honored tradition...
...Afghani children in Kandahar, by Kiarostami's compatriot Mohsen Makhmalbaf, do not smile. One comely lad in a Taliban school loads a Kalashnikov rifle and obediently proclaims its virtues - it "kills the living and mutilates the dead" - as a mullah praises his recitation. ("Weapons," a visiting doctor says later, "are the only modern thing in Afghanistan.") Another boy, an orphan in the desert, will peddle anything, including himself, to keep going. He attaches himself to an educated Iranian woman who has returned from Canada to save her sister...
...Kandahar is full to bursting with such images of desperate hope amid official atrocity. The incidents the film depicts make one ashamed to be human, even as its artistry makes one grateful for a world-class showcase like Cannes and for directors with Makhmalbaf's craft and daring. If you can't find Kandahar in your town, ask your local distributor. Don't be too proud...
...Kandahar is full to bursting with such images of desperate hope amid official atrocity. The film's artistry makes one grateful for a world-class showcase like Cannes, even as the incidents its depicts make one ashamed to be human...