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...paper and Radio France International claimed the Saudi terrorist checked himself into Dubai's American Hospital in July, where he spent 10 days undergoing urgent treatment to his ailing renal system. "Intelligence sources believe that bin Laden bought a dialysis machine earlier this year which he had shipped to Kandahar," says the Times about the Le Figaro report. "His problem now will be operating such equipment and the risk of infection if, as seems likely, he is hiding out in Afghan mountains...
...Edhi's ambulances screeches by, coming from inside Afghanistan. On a narrow stretcher in the back of the ambulance lies an Afghan, Hekmatullah, 22, gasping with pain at every bump. He had the awful luck to be living not more than 200 yards from a Taliban ammunition dump near Kandahar. Hekmatullah was sleeping in his courtyard the night when American bombs struck. The ammo depot erupted like a volcano, spewing bullets and rockets everywhere...
...Afghan driver took me west of Kandahar, where U.S. jets had destroyed a Taliban training facility. The underground bunkers had been unearthed, and the compound's interior was pocked with craters. An old Russian truck was parked along one of the boundary walls; it seemed most military hardware had been removed before the attack...
...Kandahar itself, there is still evidence of normal life. Children play and fill water buckets from hand pumps?the city has no electricity or running water?and adults engage in the latest pastime: tracking high-flying jets through binoculars. Market prices are unchanged, largely because so many people have fled. But residents are frightened and angry, and much of their scorn is reserved for the Taliban and for its Arab allies in 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...
...CONFLICT Desolation Row The flow of refugees streaming out of Afghanistan's major cities to escape two weeks of relentless U.S. aerial bombardment rose to a new peak last week. The town of Chaman, on the border with Pakistan and only 130 km from the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, was besieged by more than 3,500 on Friday alone...